shdybrady1988

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For you rear mount turbo guys where do you mount your air filter? I got on line and saw that sts has a pipe that goes towards the rear of the vehicle and it had the airfilter on it. Im building my own but wanted to get some ideas.

hawk584

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shdybrady1988

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ok great pics. I have a few questions being new to the turbo side. I wanted to build all motor but decided to go f/i. Do you have to get a bullet muffler with this set up? Is that your exhaust pipe in the 2nd pic on the right??

hawk584

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my car is registered in North Dakota and i'm stationed in Utah. ND has no emission laws that i know of so i'm running a straight exhaust. someone else should be able to chime in one the bullet muffler. i've also heard that catalytic converters over time break down and the junk that does will destroy the turbo. you should think about either gutting yours or just taking them off.

exhaust pipe is on the passenger side of the car

shdybrady1988

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ok thats what it hought. yeah i have to have a cat. I figured a high flow cat and a bullet muffler. Not sure which one yet. But how will that sound just being a single exhaust. Is it going to still give me a deep rumble? Sorry for all the noob questions

hawk584

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVGgN7hZVSI

500+HP, T67, intercooled, 385ci LT1

dont apologize for asking questions. although some may poke fun, take it with a grain of salt. all my bosses say the same thing, not asking is the dumb thing to do.. heck i'm still learning too. such as no one answering my, " first oil change...?" thread

hawk584

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you also want to get rid of the long tube headers and get stock manifolds.

run a search in this section for STS

Schantin

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Run the air filter like the pic. You can get a fairly inexpensive cone filter from the chain auto parts stores that has an aluminum cover built aroud it. + an aluminum hat. Worked geat in the rain. I ran that in crappy weather (though I rarely drove in the rain w/ the STS) and had an AEM Dri-Flo for good weather. Kept both w/ the car and swapped out as mother nature dictated.

BTW, the AEM was like having no filter at all.....it seemed to outperform the stock K&N by a mile. But, the AEM is a dry gauze design and I'm sue doesn't react well to being soaked in water. The cheapo filter was on par w/ the K&N. Thus the reason I had both.

shdybrady1988

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Why do i need to get rid of my long tube headers. The whole reason i was going to do a rear mount is so I dont have to redo my exhaust. I know to most they can scrap their all motor and go to turbo and not think twice. Im not like that, at least not yet. I dont want to start over. So what are the cons of having long tube headers.

shdybrady1988

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SPRAYED 01

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I think the long tubes will lose heat quickly and cause spooling issues.

Schantin

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Long-tube headers have much more surface rea to dissipate heat....which is a detriment to keeping exhaust velocity to spool a turbo. To be honest, you don't need to ditch them now. I kept my LT's the entire time I had my STS. I wrapped the exhaust from the Y-pipe back and that helped tremendously to decrease spool time. I also ran high-flow cat converters. Those also make heat, which helped the cause.

OUTLAWZ RACING

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I put a manga flow bullet muffler in the I pipe so now the tone is real deep. It used to be raspy as hell. I also run a 4.5 exhaust down pipe off the turbo. I got rid of my wrapp mac equal lenths because they where starting to grow out from the pressure on the exhaust flanges. Those things allways leak. I am on stock 02 manafolds now and 2.5 stainless exhaust wrap all the way back. Boost is still alittle laggy but hell I have a huge turbo.

shdybrady1988

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so my gains shouldnt suffer? Bc i really dont want to take those damn things back off

Sideways240sx

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the long tubes will definatly affect the spool up time. It has been gone over a bunch of times, and everyone ends up going back to a stock manifold.

Chris