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They're running anti-lag and all sorts of shit, I'd be fairly confident in saying they run chinese turbos because they're much cheaper to replace when they sh!t themselves... any turbo is going to shit itself when you thrash it like they do. How many turbos do you think they go through in a season?

Just ram steel wool up it with a broom handle. It'll all blow out after a week or 2. EDIT: Just make sure it's not gonna blow out while they're doing the volume test, haha.

Personally I wouldn't bother going to all the work of pulling the VF22 just to go to a TD05. May as well go the whole hog and twist, or pay some extra cash and get a factory fitment Garrett.

With a forged motor it runs like a bag of shit until the pistons get warm anyway. So I drive it like a bit of a nanna for 5 mins or so until the temperature needle comes up, that's about it.

... waiting for some pics of Simon C's to make us all feel bad ;/

So 260 if you bounce it?

If it's a dual voice coil sub wired in parallel and you bridged your amp into it then it probably saw 1 ohm/channel and cooked something.

A 6-speed will juuuuust hit the fuel cut (180kmh) in 4th with a 8krpm redline, and by my maths will go on to a top speed of right around 260... that's if it can push the car through the air that fast. You don't get a 6-speed for top speed, you get it for shorter ratios so that you can keep the car in the powerband...

Pick up an old Nakamichi. They're money.

Oh gawd I'm a little disturbed that I know what he's referring to.

The old ones are good, the new ones are... much of a muchness with every other mid-level amp.

Yes, and very yes!

Our old 1991 (? I think?) Legacy VZ-type R would lock the doors automatically at about 20kph.

I've heard some cars that sounded fantastic when they were parked up with the engine off. But as soon as you add in road noise and a good dollop of boxer burble your $2000 DLS Ultimate tweeters sound much the same as some $200 ones. Which is why I have mixed feelings about good SQ in cars. SQ/L is another matter... being able to be played loud, over the road noise, and sound really good doing it - that's the key to a good, practical car audio system.

Okie dokie! I have the only 2 Stetsom 10kd's in the country. They're factory modded by Stetsom, they do about 12800wrms each @ 12v @ 1 ohm and a shade over 20kw each when fed 18v. Top that

Actually you've probably unwittingly made some sort of implied contract. And now that you're 18, it's both binding and enforceable

EDIT: Actually, never mind me.

I swing back and forth with audio. Went down the SQ route, went the SPL route, now I'm running a reasonably high-end JVC headunit to stock speakers. I can't bring myself to put decent speakers and amps blah blah in a car that I bought for going quickly in. My audio collection in the garage is ridiculous. I don't think anyone on here would even come close, with all modesty.

Subject says it all really... 215/35/R18, gets driven fairly hard. What's out there?

Yes. Tons of things affect it. I repair car audio amps so I know what goes on inside them. 2 good, well built amps I would have a hard time hearing the difference between but if we're talking a shitty amp vs a good one of the same power rating, I reckon you can hear a difference. Things like transistor rise times, slew rates on op-amps, all that good stuff.

What sensors do you have, if you don't mind me asking? PM if you don't want it on the open forum.

Is your vacuum setup right? Even if the spring is a bit sad, as long as the vacuum from the pre-turbo intake is plumbed to the actuator with no leaks etc it should be sucking it shut fairly effectively.

My 34 is running like 21psi no problems. Note that they do whine just a little bit due to ball bearing center. Did you reduce the size of the restrictor on the oil feed banjo? If you went from an early journal bearing turbo to this and didn't change the restrictor it's possible it will be over-oiling and pushing oil through the seals.

That's not entirely sensible... for example my door got damaged by some numpty in a carpark so I replaced the entire door with a mint one... I didn't want any bog etc. either but if it's done like that, what's the harm?