Topic: oil on top of my turbo (Read 2075 times)

spoolordie · « **Reply #50 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:11:09 PM »

Heat Wrapping Is an excellent Idea, I know when you wrap headers do each individual runner or you get hot spots. Dom@MaxwellPower was explaining it to me.

It keeps the heat in where its suppose to be. and keeps it away from electrical components and hoses

Kavik · « **Reply #51 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:14:09 PM »

that's another one of those highly debated topics......it definitely helps keep the under hood temps down, but a lot of people say it will add stress to the wrapped parts because they aren't meant to retain all that heat.

personally, I'd go for it...especially on the headers with the fmic not too far away

spoolordie · « **Reply #52 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:17:11 PM »

Quote from: Kavik on December 28, 2011, 12:14:09 PM

that's another one of those highly debated topics......it definitely helps keep the under hood temps down, but a lot of people say it will add stress to the wrapped parts because they aren't meant to retain all that heat.

personally, I'd go for it...especially on the headers with the fmic not too far away

And Intake if its an SRI

Kavik · « **Reply #53 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:29:19 PM »

really? I wouldn't think to bother with that....assuming there's already a heat shield of some sort separating the filter section from the engine bay, and ideally some sort of feed bringing fresh air into that area...I'd imagine the air passing through the turbo is going to make it heat up more than any heat soak from the engine block
(I don't remember ever touching my intake pipe and thinking it was hot)

unless, of course, you're the type that wants every little bit out of everything...in which case you better also have a different tune for every season to account for changing ambient temps

04sti · « **Reply #54 on:** December 29, 2011, 10:45:17 AM »

Thanks for the advice guys I really appreciate it. I heatwrapped the header last night and what I had left I used on the dp. What a pain in the Ass that stuff is especially since its full of fiberglass lol then I had the brillant idea of sealing them in my apt... I think the spray paint smell has finally gone away. I took a pic but it looks like hell since the camera on my phone is pretty shot.

04sti · « **Reply #55 on:** January 03, 2012, 04:04:25 PM »

Cars done finally! I was lucky enough to just happen to stop in when they fired it for the first time and Damn it sounds great! It's running pig rich right now so I can't drive it until ray does his thing at about 5 tonight! Just so pumped that its almost over and I have my car back. Just a break in map for now and ill deff keep u guys updated on how it goes from here on out.

04sti · « **Reply #56 on:** January 03, 2012, 08:30:22 PM »

Car runs great and I couldn't be happier! I put about 20 miles on it tonight with no problems at all. Ray from turbotech was great and had it all set up in about 20 min. Now if I can just get through this 500 mile break in without wanting to get on it ill be all set lol

Kavik · « **Reply #57 on:** January 03, 2012, 10:44:06 PM »

LOL maybe you should've asked him to tune in a rev limiter to help with the behaving

glad to hear you've got it all fixed up though, hope it's a long term happiness

Turbaru · « **Reply #58 on:** January 04, 2012, 12:58:05 PM »

Kick Ass!

TheBigChill · « **Reply #59 on:** January 05, 2012, 08:34:53 AM »

John, tonight....we just roll-race the night away.

I'm saying; a shit talking, clutch dumping, tire melting, diff blowing, good time. Consider your break-in period over.

04sti · « **Reply #60 on:** January 05, 2012, 06:24:45 PM »

Lol you have no idea how much I'd love to do this! I just want to put my foot into one time idc if the boost is all the way down or not Haha

TheBigChill · « **Reply #61 on:** January 06, 2012, 08:11:16 AM »

I kid.

Don't do it.

I drove past you last night when you were in your car, in front of Footsies. Beep beep.

04sti · « **Reply #62 on:** January 06, 2012, 08:17:37 AM »

Lol I know I cant but its just teasing me

but I didn't even notice u drove by? U sure i was in it? Or was it just running on the turbo timer?

04sti · « **Reply #63 on:** January 11, 2012, 05:37:47 PM »

Break in is going great so far. 300 miles deep and just 200 more to go! I can't wait lol. Did the first oil change on sat at 100 miles and everything looked great! Burnt a little bit of oil but that's to be expected and it was clean as a whistle! Just a little swirling from the assembly lube. Deff will keep updated when ray comes to tune it.

Also just wanted to say thanks to all you guys that helped with all my questions I couldn't appreciate it more!

nate_fisher · « **Reply #64 on:** January 13, 2012, 06:43:49 PM »

+1 for ray he transformed my 2011 xt and very quick to help with any issues or questions. I also get my parts from him he can beat pretty much any price. I wouldnt get tuned by anyone else and ive had a couple tuners in my day lol.

turbotekray · « **Reply #65 on:** January 17, 2012, 06:03:21 PM »

let me know when you are ready, 100 more miles should be good enough

Ray

04sti · « **Reply #66 on:** January 18, 2012, 07:35:08 PM »

Ray I should be ready in a couple of weeks. The build was a little more than I expected but ill have the 500 miles by then I just need to come up with the money for the wideband lol

turbotekray · « **Reply #67 on:** January 19, 2012, 03:23:01 PM »

let me know dude, 175.00 shipped to your door on aem wide band, you cant beat that

04sti · « **Reply #68 on:** January 19, 2012, 05:28:40 PM »

Yea I'm deff going to be getting ahold of you with the next couple weeks. And i'll get that ordered up and installed and then we'll tune it. I can't wait to see what this things gonna do once you tune it!!

turbotekray · « **Reply #69 on:** February 11, 2012, 08:59:32 PM »

anyone have Johns phone number? i left my cell phone in his car

04sti · « **Reply #70 on:** February 12, 2012, 04:41:01 PM »

Got the car tuned via ray yest and all I can say is what an awesome experience and a thorough guy. Took just about 6 hours lol with all the stuff that went on. But it was well worth it! I deff recommend him to anyone looking to get their car tuned. His attention to detail is crazy and wantkng to get everything perfect. Talked to him this morning and the car is putting down 356 at 21psi but with a lil tweaking well be at 400.

On another note we ran across a coolant leak so that was part of the reason of it taking so long lol but it'll go in tom to be fixed. Once again Ty to ray for all the help and the hours he put in tuning!

Kavik · « **Reply #71 on:** February 14, 2012, 12:16:40 PM »

50hp sounds like a big jump for just a little tweaking....just be sure to leave a little reliability in there somewhere

04sti · « **Reply #72 on:** February 14, 2012, 01:03:46 PM »

I know he wont tune it beyond its limits and the 400 is with a new map sensor and 24psi but well are what happens

turbotekray · « **Reply #73 on:** February 14, 2012, 02:55:02 PM »

John Glad you are happy, yes Johns car really stuck it to me

Kavik · « **Reply #74 on:** February 14, 2012, 03:08:20 PM »

LOL okay, to me 'tweaking' sounding like you just meant pushing the tune, not adding parts. Sounds like it's turning into quite the fun car

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