Twin Turbo Update

[RHanselman]

Dropped the Twin Turbo off yesterday at the Fab guy's shop in Long Beach, CA. It was a 300 mile drive to the shop and then I flew back. I was challenged by a few Mustang GT’s but I was able to keep my cool. That’s probably one of the biggest challenges I’ve had to overcome in a while…

The Fab guys are starting right away so we hope to have pipes for 10 systems by 15 July. Keep your fingers crossed for us…

BG update:

We had some teething pains at BG, namely we couldn’t get over 3 psi of boost. We thought it was the Air horn seal but it ended up being a coupler under the car. It was loose and dumped most the pressure overboard. We tightened it back up and we now have the full 10 psi. We went ahead and put the 12 psi spring in the waste gate and added the new fuel pumps. Rumor from the speed shop, dyno sheet to follow that she’s around 675 at the tires…

We also did a leak down and compression check which passed with flying colors. We did this to make sure we didn’t damage anything at BG without a full tune and no boost. Thank goodness for that!

The only other problem we had was over filling the oil system. Because it was overfilled, after a high rpm run it would dump oil out the fresh air tubes on the CAM covers. We had them disconnected to keep boost out of the crankcase. Hence the “smoke show” at the big end… Since then I’ve done lots of runs with the oil at the right level without a problem.

Now I just can't wait for her to get back.

Cheers,
Ron