Long story short, Im about to wrap up my turbo install of a BBS kit I bought a year ago. Its my first dive into turbo's.

One quick question is seeing boost. I havent gotten to drive the car much at all yet due to lack of time and shaking out a few bugs. Sitting idle and just reving the motor up... should I see boost? I hooked up an Autometer vacuum/boost gauge. At idle I see vacuum and when I rev the motor up to say 4000 rpm the gauge goes to zero. I never see any boost. Does the car need to be under load to actually see boost?

 

The car needs to be under a load before it will start building boost.

 

yeah you wont see boost until under a load.

 

off topic but... wouldnt mind seeing pics of the install (just for the hell of it)

 

Thanks for the replys.. sort of what I thought.

Dont have great pics yet but here is 2



I am planning to install an intercooler shortly after I get it runing.

 

hmmm they don't show up . I have the 650 hp kit . Is that the one you have ? I would also like to see pics

 

Ahh yeah its the 650 single. I did upgrade to a T72 though. Im moving my website so it may take a day or so to show back up.

 

Also i take it you don;t run a smogg pump . I have to up here and I need my wastegate relocated. MANNNNN I can;t wait to get it on . I just got my fuel pump in the mail I will be checking out your site for sure. Mine is all in the box still. What are you useing to tune it all. Whatabout all the smogg stuff ?

 

Oh yeah most of the smog stuff is gone now. Right now Im using a modified ARAP bin to get it going. Ive got a ton to learn for tuning and then determine whether to switch to a Sy/Ty ECM or go MS or something down the road when Im ready to crank the boost up. I built the block all forged to handle it and its right around 8.7:1 compression. Taking baby steps and hell with little time to work on it, its taken awhile to get this far.