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OK OK lol........ Well ill start talking bout the boring stuff first like how it drives off boost haha!:nyaanyaa:

Im actually very surprised at how torquey it feels off boost it almost feels as pokey as my FG falcon ute and oddly enough doesnt seem my fuel economy has really changed from 200kw-288kw in fact so far it seems slightly better now with an hour or so on the dyno and bit of cruising and giving it a squirt here and there i done a smidge over 200km on half a tank .

Now to the fun part BOOST! Ok so 1st gear doesnt really exist as you probably cover 20m before you are looking for 2nd lol in second gear it really starts to haul ass at bout 3800 now and is breaking traction at bout 4200 with my kaaz 2way and 255s and it doesnt stop pulling all the way to the limiter and if i stay on it into 3rd gear she chirps and spins for a second then hooks up and away she goes and my evc 6 is registering 22psi at around the 3500 mark! I havent given her a good run in 3rd as you can imagine you are in the bye bye license zone with some spirited driving in the 1st few gears with a few revs in 3rd there arent many numbers left for the needle to go on the 180km/h speedo. Id like to organise a cruise 1 weekend soon so if there are any sydney people reading this get at me and lets talk bout a nice drive to a nice destination..........:thumbsup:

Now mr GTScotT im thinking you should have a tinker with my boost controller when we both got some free time cos i think there is probably a little bit of tweaking to be done with that controller :thanks:

lol stop talking about the bloody HTTP and talk about the bloody car!

Cruise on over to Perth, I wanna see this thing :nyaanyaa:

It will inspire me to get my ass in to gear and get mine finished!!

OK OK lol........ Well ill start talking bout the boring stuff first like how it drives off boost haha!:nyaanyaa:

Im actually very surprised at how torquey it feels off boost it almost feels as pokey as my FG falcon ute and oddly enough doesnt seem my fuel economy has really changed from 200kw-288kw in fact so far it seems slightly better now with an hour or so on the dyno and bit of cruising and giving it a squirt here and there i done a smidge over 200km on half a tank .

Now to the fun part BOOST! Ok so 1st gear doesnt really exist as you probably cover 20m before you are looking for 2nd lol in second gear it really starts to haul ass at bout 3800 now and is breaking traction at bout 4200 with my kaaz 2way and 255s and it doesnt stop pulling all the way to the limiter and if i stay on it into 3rd gear she chirps and spins for a second then hooks up and away she goes and my evc 6 is registering 22psi at around the 3500 mark! I havent given her a good run in 3rd as you can imagine you are in the bye bye license zone with some spirited driving in the 1st few gears with a few revs in 3rd there arent many numbers left for the needle to go on the 180km/h speedo. Id like to organise a cruise 1 weekend soon so if there are any sydney people reading this get at me and lets talk bout a nice drive to a nice destination..........:thumbsup:

Now mr GTScotT im thinking you should have a tinker with my boost controller when we both got some free time cos i think there is probably a little bit of tweaking to be done with that controller :thanks:

Hahaha justo ill have to bring my tools and service gear to give her an oil change 500km outta Perth lol did u check out the video link wolverine posted up of 1 of the power runs on the dyno? Your car will be an animal with the forged motor and 30psi big fella so get ya ass into gear haha! The baby GTX is awesome when she gets spinning and the lb's climb so fast!

Cruise on over to Perth, I wanna see this thing :nyaanyaa:

It will inspire me to get my ass in to gear and get mine finished!!

it whistles a little bit down low but is mostly pretty stealth mate if you go back a page and click on wolverines link you can see 1 of the power runs on the dyno i recorded on my phone :thumbsup:

hey does it whistle much or is it mostly quiet?

  • 2 months later...

Ok so im reviving my old thread on my turbo now as my car is booked into unigroup for next Monday to have my Link G4 installed with HKS exhaust cam gear and quite possibly a new profec boost controller for my E85 tune. So next week im gunna have my HKS EVC 6 ebc for sale too throw me some offers lowballers can lick my scrote too by the way!

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