who is boosting more with stock internals
05-31-2007, 12:09 AM
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its clear that with a 3mm hg you can boost safer.thats why i have one on my car
.you have already convinced me about that
is there a formula to determine how safer the car runs with the 3mm hg
instead of the 0,5mm stock hg ?
or we say its safer because of common sense / less compression less stress to the engine?
05-31-2007, 02:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Congo,May 31 2007, 05:08 PM
sometimes u get a lemon sometimes, sometimes you don't.
Add a 3mm headgasket to the same car and those limits (pressure, advance, leaness) will all be higher and so will horsepower.
And to suggest that one car suffers detonation and the other doesn't means the first one is a lemon is untrue. The fact is, if a car has badly run in rings or worn valves it will have lower resultant compression and will be less likely to ping. Doesn't make it the better car.
05-31-2007, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by trivium,May 31 2007, 02:42 AM
I think by "Gay" you are referring to the opposite of "poor" since you are too cheap to buy proper fuel management and you tune your car with a Apexi VAFC.
06-01-2007, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by John_Z,May 29 2007, 12:13 PM
No problems here at 14psi with a stock headgasket.
Aside from getting a new map sensor and a solid tune, was there anythign else done to achieve this?
06-01-2007, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by John_Z,Jun 1 2007, 05:31 PM
Nothing else was needed. My tuner did spend some time re-scaling a few tables but that was it.