How about the videos??? I want to see and hear this thing. It will give me inspiration to work on mine again. Help a fellow Veedubber out.
Mark, I think I may have a 9mm pump at home if you want to try a smaller one..
Quote from: the4ork on March 03, 2010, 12:40:12 amwow just saw this thread...i gotta say, i am completely envious, and the funny thing is tonight i got on the site to do a search if anyone had tried one of these turbos yet...i was actually looking at a .60 trim T3 but im very curious to see where your 50trim spools at. i assume you have a tach so you can tell? your build is very very similar to what i will be doing this spring. btw, is that just an 11mm home-modded pump or is it a full giles?Very nice setup, i hope it lives up to your expectations and mine as well and very very nice workmanship whats your altitude???....for the altitude I drive in I wish I could have got a 45trim..witch is what they originally speced me on and then told me they had discontinued the 45trim...i'm at 4000-5000ft above sea level most the time and my turbo spools pretty fast but not as fast as I like...the real nice thing I find with the BB turbo is not much boost lost on shifts so you can keep it spooled once you do get it there...now that I have another few tanks on this 11mm pump I really feel it's too hot and smoky for my app...I can turn it all the way down and it still smokes pretty dang hard...I think a 10mm or even a 9mm might work better...? my car is still a work in progress and it has been a long hard road but I do like the way it runs....it's getting better everyday it breaks in more.....thanks for the complements. Btw Zukgod1 on here is the man who did my pump...he's the man.
wow just saw this thread...i gotta say, i am completely envious, and the funny thing is tonight i got on the site to do a search if anyone had tried one of these turbos yet...i was actually looking at a .60 trim T3 but im very curious to see where your 50trim spools at. i assume you have a tach so you can tell? your build is very very similar to what i will be doing this spring. btw, is that just an 11mm home-modded pump or is it a full giles?Very nice setup, i hope it lives up to your expectations and mine as well and very very nice workmanship
for the love of god!! WE NEED UPDATES!
***! haha....do you plan on hitting the dyno? do we need to gather a pool together? lolwe will have to compare dynos this summer as our builds will be very similar. ive been looking hard into using either the GT2554 or the GT2560(28r) so our snails will be similar in size. I found a guy that can make me a passenger performance style intake manifold locally, and of course there will be the beefy giles pump.can i ask you where you got your cometic gasket made? i think i will do the same
what were the specs on yours? im sorry if it was gone over already...is it compression dropping?
did you consider dropping the compression at all? or no because you live in a cold high elevation climate?