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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 02:54 PM
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i have a new motor and new turbo kit goin on the car and was wondering if i should test fire the car n/a first only to make sure all is good before i go any further? or should i just wait until the entire car is put together?

i have spare exhaust and what not i could throw on there for the mean time instead of the turbo manifolds.


im also worried about gettin the car tuned and moving it after its all together, should i send my computer to the tuner before hand so maybe i can atleast start the car? or should i just put it all together and get it trailor to the shop and let them deal with it all? im just tryin to minimize problems and fix them before the car is tuned.


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btw the kit is a iron 346 with a pt 88 front mount
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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 04:54 PM
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pics of the setup please or it dont matter!
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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 05:55 PM
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I would get a tune on there to atleast to account for bigger injectors. Otherwise youre fine driving around, outside of boost unless your new motor is very different
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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 06:10 PM
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I don't see a problem with hooking it all back together without the kit and piddling around for a while to break the motor in. I plan on doing that to make sure everything is 100% before the snails go on.
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Old Aug 11, 2010 | 01:05 AM
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add me on facebook santana. all the pics are there.

well i gues it wont matter if the kit if hooked up or not, ill jus wait cus im going to 96lbs or 80lbs hi injectors. big diff from the 30lbs so ya i guess ill just get it tuned first.

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Old Aug 11, 2010 | 10:14 AM
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I'm doing a speed density tune on mine and breaking it in NA first. Once that's all sorted the turbo goes on. Plus it will be cool to see how much I pick up from NA to boosted. I'm doing a rearmount though. So it's easy to do NA first.

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