so its finally tuned but still with disappointing results,
after the last dyno it made 249-250 on 14psi, so when i got home i pressure tested the system finding two decent leaks
one coming from the back of the front housing of the turbo, and another coming from inbetween the intake manifold and the engine. I also pulled my wastegate to find no wastegate seat in there which explains why it was boosting so late
To fix the turbo leak instead of pulling the front cover off and putting the O-ring its probably missing i just decided to upgrade to a GTX35R, after doing this i had no leaks and was ready for the dyno yet again.
The tuner started tuning it on 14psi again and still could only manage to get 251 @ 14 but was coming on boost good now, was starting to get annoyed because i believe it should of been making around the 290ish mark on that if not a bit more. so i hooked the boost solenoid and decided to tune it on 25psi hoping to see well over the 400hp mark.
After about 3hrs could only manage 364hp atw. Dont get me wrong its more then enough in a escort but the money ive put into this and comparing it to similar setups that other people are running and achieving that sort of power on 18-20psi it is annoying the crap out of me.
for now iam over it, so ive just been driving it and is fun to drive doesn't feel unsafe or dangerous is nice to drive but will be going back to the drawing board.
It is also having heating problems so iam looking at changing a few things up, gonna make custom maybe thinner intercooler and run it on the bottom so i can change the intercooler piping to allow more room for a bigger filter and more air to get to it, and unfortunately i may look at cutting holes in the front like most common people do with turboed escorts, really dont want to but dont want to cook the engine at the same time as it got up to 104degrees yesteday.
thought i would get your opinion if i go down the track of opening up the front end, pretty much the most common ones out there which way do you reckon i should go? and threw a picture in of the new piece of billet that i put on my car.
hopefully it will all work the way it should one day but for now its gonna have to do