Good day ladies and germs. It has been a while since I posted last, but my car has changed a smidge since last year. I was running a 14b at 12 psi and making 244 whp, but have since upgraded to an evo III big 16g running about 14 psi. I have also upgraded from 450 to 560 cc injectors and a 3 bar map sensor from a 2 bar. Im currently running crome pro, but am switching over to a Haltech e6x soon(I work there, and were making a pnp harness) Regardless, here are a couple pics. Turbo spools up great still, and is a blast to drive. Also has a delta 272 cam, wastegate dump to atmostphere, 2.5"dp, full exhaust with cutout, evo 8 fmic, lots of other stuff. Fmic is crooked, im waiting until I get a new lip to fix it.
looks good, but I see you have all that other piping thermal wrapped (which you don't really wanna do if it's not exhaust piping), except the compressor outlet, which goes right over the exhaust mani, isn't thermal wrapped? I'd wrap that sucker, regardless of the thermal coat on the manifold.
I would second the wrapping of the piping coming over the manifold as suggested above. would cut down some of the radiating heat being absorbed by that piping off the manifold/ turbine housing/ dp.
looks great though.
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word, I actually had it wrapped for the longest time, until a lot of people recommended unwrapping it because they thought it would hold heat in more than it would disappate it without the wrap. Thanks for the comment, and I will probably wrap it again. Also, I hope to have new numbers soon, as dyno dynamics shares a building with us. I should have crome and haltech numbers hopefully as well. This is how it was right before i went big 16g
the problem is, with all the cold side piping, any heat that is gained is being trapped in there. This is why you never see IC piping heat wrapped and most people try to use aluminum due to it's dissipation properties.
I'd unwrap all the cold side piping and either build heat shields or leave it bare, and wrap that compressor discharge pipe and any exhaust pipes that you can.
Word, I have heard both sides of the argument on this, and have seen a few people say that they have done the research and seen a 1-3 degree difference, so Im not sure which side to go with. However, once the e6x is installed, I will test this out, so that I have some sort of conslusive result. Thanks again for the input.
