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With your high compression, no intercooler, no tune and summer heat my bet is your only seeing about half the potental of the SC because the computer is killing it by reducing the timing. Your setup without the SC is worth maybe 270 to the wheels and another 80 or 100hp on 6 pounds, if the tune is spot on and full timing can be achieved. I'd bet it runs like a different car early on cool mornings, because the computer is allowing more timing advance. So to answer your original question, in good weather, cool air temp 50 or 60 degrees, low humidity 350 to 370 at the wheels. On a bad weather day, 320 to 340.
Now a stock lower end car with headers, CAI, exhaust, ported heads, cam and good tune can make 340, add a 100 shot and your at 420 to 440 for 1500 bucks. About what you will get for the SC if you sell it. Plus your motor isn't being squeezed as hard by constant boost.
So in closing,
You can run it the way it is setup and risk serious damage from detonation and it will happen. Burnt valves, popped head gasket, meltedpistons the list of problems is lengthy.
Or you can pay 1500 to 2 grand to get the car setup for a blower with tune, cooler and make around 370 hp at the wheels.
Or you could sell the blower throw a H/C at it, add some spray and have and real 400+hp beast until you kill the rearend or tranny LOL.
Now a stock lower end car with headers, CAI, exhaust, ported heads, cam and good tune can make 340, add a 100 shot and your at 420 to 440 for 1500 bucks. About what you will get for the SC if you sell it. Plus your motor isn't being squeezed as hard by constant boost.
So in closing,
You can run it the way it is setup and risk serious damage from detonation and it will happen. Burnt valves, popped head gasket, meltedpistons the list of problems is lengthy.
Or you can pay 1500 to 2 grand to get the car setup for a blower with tune, cooler and make around 370 hp at the wheels.
Or you could sell the blower throw a H/C at it, add some spray and have and real 400+hp beast until you kill the rearend or tranny LOL.
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Originally Posted by defaultexistence
**** all the noise, tune that bitch on a Dyno and stay within your bottomend and fueling capabilities it'll live longer than most of these nut swingers want to admit.. I wouldn't go over 8psi tops.. So stay with that 6# pulley ,pull the spark plugs and read them, make sure to put in some colder than stock NGK or autolights gapped at .035 and get to a tuner before you even build boost one more time ... I can't believe someone installed the SC and ran on no tune.... Then again it's not that hard to believe..
Does it have new injectors, fuel pump hotwire kit or fuel pump?
Does it have new injectors, fuel pump hotwire kit or fuel pump?
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sell the sc for a heads/cam. unless your going to spend another 3500-5500 to make the blower setup legit its just a waste in the end.
the risk of blowing something in the bottom end is too high.
the risk of blowing something in the bottom end is too high.
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Originally Posted by 96capricemgr
maybe the right question to ask is what is your end goal with the car?
I don't know exactly what unit you have but will the one you have support your end goal?
I don't know exactly what unit you have but will the one you have support your end goal?
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