Whatz my max boost I can run!!??
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thanks for the input guys and sorry about sucking. guess I should have stated it wouldn't be tuned on a dyno and that's why I was going by psi...in my mind I made sense. How many psi will get me to a hp level that will break things and then stay under that.
I will be staying at 10psi until this winter when I can build the engine and get a 6 speed and I am going to work on finding how many lbs/min I will be putting into the cylinders.
I will be staying at 10psi until this winter when I can build the engine and get a 6 speed and I am going to work on finding how many lbs/min I will be putting into the cylinders.
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The gt2560 is barely capable of moving 30lb/min of air at a PR of 2.0 but the T04E compressor in a 57 trim (which the ebay t3/t4 claims to have, but doesn't) is capable of moving over 40lb/min of air at a PR of 2.0. This, by my off the cuff calculation, is greater than one third more air at the same PR.
If I had to stress but one point to you it would be that psi of boost is not, and has never been, the measure of how much air is being forced into your engine. Boost pressure in the intake manifold is the measure of resistance or backpressure in your engine. It is not how much air is getting in, but how much restriction there is to letting it in. It is a measure of how much your engine is fighting not to let air in, or more succinctly its inefficiency at a certain lb/min of flow rate. Am I explaining this well?
Some light reading for some basics:
http://www.rx7club.com/printthread.php?t=345518
http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forums...ze-r-trim.html
Fun with compressor maps:
http://www.squirrelpf.com/turbocalc/index.php
But you are going to need to search outside our forum and dig a little on your own to grasp the big picture of how all of this works together to keep your stock motor functional. Or not. Trial and error can be a cruel playmate.
If I had to stress but one point to you it would be that psi of boost is not, and has never been, the measure of how much air is being forced into your engine. Boost pressure in the intake manifold is the measure of resistance or backpressure in your engine. It is not how much air is getting in, but how much restriction there is to letting it in. It is a measure of how much your engine is fighting not to let air in, or more succinctly its inefficiency at a certain lb/min of flow rate. Am I explaining this well?
Some light reading for some basics:
http://www.rx7club.com/printthread.php?t=345518
http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forums...ze-r-trim.html
Fun with compressor maps:
http://www.squirrelpf.com/turbocalc/index.php
But you are going to need to search outside our forum and dig a little on your own to grasp the big picture of how all of this works together to keep your stock motor functional. Or not. Trial and error can be a cruel playmate.
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The gt2560 is barely capable of moving 30lb/min of air at a PR of 2.0 but the T04E compressor in a 57 trim (which the ebay t3/t4 claims to have, but doesn't) is capable of moving over 40lb/min of air at a PR of 2.0. This, by my off the cuff calculation, is greater than one third more air at the same PR.
If I had to stress but one point to you it would be that psi of boost is not, and has never been, the measure of how much air is being forced into your engine. Boost pressure in the intake manifold is the measure of resistance or backpressure in your engine. It is not how much air is getting in, but how much restriction there is to letting it in. It is a measure of how much your engine is fighting not to let air in, or more succinctly its inefficiency at a certain lb/min of flow rate. Am I explaining this well?
Some light reading for some basics:
http://www.rx7club.com/printthread.php?t=345518
http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forums...ze-r-trim.html
Fun with compressor maps:
http://www.squirrelpf.com/turbocalc/index.php
But you are going to need to search outside our forum and dig a little on your own to grasp the big picture of how all of this works together to keep your stock motor functional. Or not. Trial and error can be a cruel playmate.
If I had to stress but one point to you it would be that psi of boost is not, and has never been, the measure of how much air is being forced into your engine. Boost pressure in the intake manifold is the measure of resistance or backpressure in your engine. It is not how much air is getting in, but how much restriction there is to letting it in. It is a measure of how much your engine is fighting not to let air in, or more succinctly its inefficiency at a certain lb/min of flow rate. Am I explaining this well?
Some light reading for some basics:
http://www.rx7club.com/printthread.php?t=345518
http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forums...ze-r-trim.html
Fun with compressor maps:
http://www.squirrelpf.com/turbocalc/index.php
But you are going to need to search outside our forum and dig a little on your own to grasp the big picture of how all of this works together to keep your stock motor functional. Or not. Trial and error can be a cruel playmate.
how many psi can I run?
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I'd say, for anyone tuning on the street, for their 1st time, on a stock internals car, etc etc etc. I'd stay in the 8psi range and start off with conservative timing and bump it up after numerous logs on a bigger turbo, and about 10psi on a smaller turbo.
I went 12psi on my gt28 equivelant in the past, my engine lasted a few months. I don't think boost pressure alone killed it, but it is what it is.
I went 12psi on my gt28 equivelant in the past, my engine lasted a few months. I don't think boost pressure alone killed it, but it is what it is.
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