Yup, I never noticed my blowby when it was spewing out under the cab, now that it's covering the air filter it's forced me to do sonething about it.
Anyways, some random pics I snapped throughout this ordeal.
First of all, new and old Steed. You can really tell that the corners are taller, and I'm sure it helps somehow but it damn sure doesn't help trying to clear the oil feed and water lines while sliding it over the studs.
Made another downpipe.
As it sits now. I'm not going to bother too much with making this look good, It'll be changed out with the blower piping anyways.
The turbo itself is pretty cool, I wasted ANOTHER pyro probe swapping manifolds but it has occasional spurts of working. Don't know how accurate it is but it seems right. Under basically any cruising circumstance that turbo runs at 0-2psi of boost. EGT is down 50* at 55 but up about 100* at 70. That doesn't make much sense to me but until I get another probe I'm not reading it as gospel. You've got to really roll into it to get over 8psi, but to be honest there's not much need to do that in any sort of driving.
The baby must have really been choking me down because this thing feels as peppy with no boost reading as it did with 5psi on baby. It just moves itself around better right off idle. In the 10-15 psi range on baby I'd give it the slight edge, but only because this thing just doesn't want to spool. It's no slouch, but the baby just gave it a bit more torque.
The highest I've seen out of it is 40psi so far. Just heavily feathering the throttle to knock smoke down some provides with about 10-15psi. It hits a sort of wall there, and only 3/4 or more throttle will bust it past. 15psi on this turbo feel like all 30 on baby though, don't get me wrong. All of this is through the nastiest of air filters as well, so it may improve.
I didn't have enough pipe to connect the DP to the old exhaust, there's about a 5" gap between them. This turbo whistles out the exhaust side like nothing I've ever heard, that seems to be a Holset thing for whatever reason. My S3&400's made intake noise like crazy, these Holsets seem to make their noise out the exhaust, which I freaking love.
Pretty happy with it, and I have no remorse getting it. I figure it'll pair right up with the blower nicely.
by PToombs » Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:32 pm 
