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I have a moderatly tuned RB20 with the following mods

Sliding performance hiflow rb25 turbo

GTR injectors

GTR fuelpump

3" turboback, split dump, metal 3" cat

remapped ecu, FMIC ect

I am having a miss when running anything over 16psi with the stock coils (suprise suprise)...

I have ngk copper v plugs gapped to 0.8

Currently with 16psi the car is making 215rwkw. If I wind up the boost to 19psi it will not miss the first 2 runs and it makes 230+rwkw. the car also feels quite a bit faster. after that it all goes to s*^t

Should I stick with 215 and stop spending money or shell out another $600 for spitfires and be able to run the full potential of the turbo and make around 230rwkw

Is 15 kw worth $600?

or should I gap the plugs down further?

put the car back on the dyno today and had bad results due to the coilpacks.

The car only made 204rwkw due to only being able to run 13psi. the car did manage to make 5200n tractive effort but was serverley hindered by missfire.

the afr was perfect on 12:1 from 4000 to redline. so that and the 10 votes for spitfires and none for stockers :/ I have ordered the spitfires.

Really hoping for a solid gain and ability to run 18psi. The funny thing is I was able to run 18 for about 3 weeks and the coils have gradually gotten worse.

the car made 230 before the coils fuc$%d out so thats all I am shooting for.

I wasted hundreds of dollars with secondhand coils and remote coil setups, none of which solved the problem.

Haven't had 1 miss since installing the splitfires

DOOOOO IT!

I found perfectrun to be the cheapest - $535 delivered

Edited by Lazy-Bastard

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