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Lockjaw

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  1. A generalization...

    Turbo motors like load. By having to shift earlier' date=' you have to get out of boost. The longer you can stay in a gear, the longer the turbo can spool. The 3.54 or better yet 3.36 allows that to happen. It is pretty much the opposite of the n/a set-ups where you want to run through the gears quickly. Running through the gears quickly with a turbo set up, does not allow you to take advantage of the turbo.[/quote']

     

    Then wouldn't say short shifting with a numerically high gear in the back give you the same result, or better yet, just running a trans like a powerglide?

     

    Something else to consider is a turbo engine (generally) has lower compression, hence a numerically higher diff gear would help with off boost driveability.

     

    If you can buzz it to 7k, I would run a 3.90, or 3.70, but I am not a fan of 4.11. The difference between any of them is probably not much.

     

    Also, the heavier your car, might be a little better to go numerically higher as well.

     

    I run 3.90's with the T5, and I went faster then with 3.56's. FWIW.

  2. Well you know who made 417 +/- Hp to the wheels with the turbo I have, and 420cc injectors. Its only a 60 trim with a stage 5 turbine wheel.

     

    He also did a backpressure test on it, and at 22 psi of boost he had 23 psi of back pressure. .63 AR housing. The .82 would probably add another 25 or so hp to the wheels, the offset is going to be time to get to boost. Personally I would stick with the .63.

     

    If I was drag racing, then I would most certainly have the .82, and I would spray the heck out of it to get it into boost.

  3. Moral of the story' date=' don't marry a skank.[/quote']

     

    oh man... it might be wrong for me to laugh at that, but that IS the funniest thing i ever seen, heard or whatever...

    omg HHAHAHAHA.

     

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    Go ahead and laugh, that is what I am going to do when she figures out the money I paid her to buy her out of the house, that my attorney classified as alimoney, well that is taxable income to her, tax deductible for me. get ready to pay you BIOTCH. Not to mention I took away a house and acreage that had been in her family for 3 generations.

     

    Another moral: If you marry a SKANK, lawyer up good when it is time to divorce, you do get what you pay for.

  4. Does anyone have a source for SS valves for the P90?

     

    I want to upgrade mine while I have the head worked on. The only place I have seen anything is Top End, and Steve told me they are having some made, and it will be at least 2 months before they will be available.

     

    I don't want to wait that long.

     

    I know I could shim the cam towers up and shim the springs, but considering I am going with the 2mm thick headgasket, I thought that would not be a smart idea, although my block has been decked 30 thous, already.

     

    So let me hear something from you turbo guys about valves. Thanks

  5. TO4b is S, V and H, in order of smallest to largest.

     

    I do think you will see a better reponse with your boost by going to a better WG actuator, the stock one sucks in my opinion. A dual port one is nice, becasue in addition to the spring pressure, you are adding boost pressure on the bottom side of the diaphram in the housing, which helps keep it closed.

     

    When I added this turbo I got from Jeff, I had some major creep problems due to the airflow coming thru it, and it would make say 10 psi and then as you got going, it would go up to 15. This is with my dual port ones, only using the top port. When I added the bottom one it improve dramatically, as did it when I had a Stage 3 turbine wheel.

     

     

     

    thats my story and I am sticking to it.

  6. I dont' know what you guys are doing if your spool-up is over 3k. with my stage 3 turbine, and H3 compressor, I was at full boost, 20+ psi by 2800 rpms. Now with a stage 5 I am still there by 3200 rpms, so you should be checking something.

     

    My personal position is you will get much better spool-up by ditching the stock Wastegate actuator, and running a dual port, and using a boost controller to introduce boost to the lower port for raising and lowering your boost.

     

    Also, you can put any wheel you want in a housing, but I would put an E housing on my car, and run an E wheel. If you want better spool-up, consider a .48 ar turbine housing, I had one, it will make your car brutal from a dead stop, you notice it will fall over in the upper rpms. Also you could go to the stage 2 turbine wheel, which has less mass, and as sleeper pointed out, it is the turbine that really determines spool up.

     

    I would run a 3 inch exhaust, and convert over to a mass air system, like a 300 ZXT VG30 arrangment, alot of people have that down now, and the MAF is way more responsive then the AFM.

     

    Sleeper, your issue with upper rpm power could be your turbine wheel.

  7. I'd stick with a T5 if I were you for the following reasons:

     

    Turbos like LOAD. People have switched from a 3:54 to a 3:70 or a 3:90 and actually LOST acceleration because the turbo doesn't get enough load in the lower gears!

     

     

    The first gear would be practically unusable (too quick) - and this is WITHOUT going to the higher numerical rear gear you were contemplating.

     

    :)

    Brad

     

    You don't mind if I take issue with you do you?

     

    I have run consistently quicler ET's with 3.90's and a T5 then I ran with 3.56's. You must also consider your tires in making a statement like that. When I went to 235/60R15 drag TA's, they were pretty tall with 3.56's gears and the car did not leave as hard as it did with the 3.90's.

     

    I might also point out that I ran over a tenth quicker with 3.90's on a failing turbo compared to running on a turbo that was not failing with 3.56's. Not to mention I ran the time with 3.90's on a much warmer day.

     

    You can also see I have changed turbo's, and while the turbine is larger, the compressor wheel is roughly the same size, I went from H3 to To4E 60 trim, and ran faster on less boost.

     

    So I have a stage V turbine, and I have no spooling problems what so ever.

     

    Yes first gear is short, but I have no problem hitting full boost in first, or second. With a Stage 3 boost response is very very responsive. And the car moves out, and 3rd gear is the real power puller, and it gets into it quickly.

     

    Where you will notice the biggest difference that I consider a negative, is interstate. I have found to really keep up with traffic, I buzz along about 3300 rpms or so, the 3.56 is nicer there.

     

    I still get 20 mpg with no O2 sensor, and all my performance stuff.

     

    I don't think to say 3.90's or 3.70's is a hindrance as a blanket statement is fair. There is more to it then that.

  8. My 260Z with a 2.8 flat top engine, su's header and cam ran like mid 15's at about 88mph, but it was not running right when I did that, I figured it would have dropped into the 14's easliy once I got the Dizzy straightened out, and the SU's rebuilt.

     

    But.... I made the bad mistake of marrying a SKANK a little over 7 years ago, and well lets just say that play toy went bye bye to pay for an attorney.

     

    Moral of the story, don't marry a skank.

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