Hey, I’m installing a PTI Stage 3 Turbo Kit in my 2002 Spec V atm, I’ve run into a problem. It seems that my fog light is in the way of my intercooler piping. I’m thinking I have to take the fog light out.
chasenyadown or silverstreak or anyone else? Is there any way to get the piping done without removing that fog light?
Got an answer back on thevboard. The piping is different in the 04 and 02s, since I bought from Nick and he has an 04, looks like I’m gonna hafta order the actual piping from PTI, and frig rig something for now.
or you could have a welder here in edmonton make you up a pipe…that might be easier than getting a pipe shipped from who knows where!
is this the stage 3 street weapon kit or the stage 3 drag t3/t4/t9 hybrid max boost setup ?
I am thinking about getting this kit for my EF civic as well
Take it from someone who knows. The Stg 3 drag kit is really underpowered on our cars. I would recommend at LEAST the Stg 9 w/ nitrous setup.
Take it from someone who knows. The Stg 3 drag kit is really underpowered on our cars. I would recommend at LEAST the Stg 9 w/ nitrous setup.[/quote]
is that why i was able to beat you?? haha
Psssh we never raced. I didn’t want to waste my gas on a stupid toyota. 
thats funny because i remember a rolling start race and…oh ya your right that wasnt much of a race…for me!!! hahahaha
Well, looks like we won’t be done today by any means. Traffic is so bad right now we can’t go pick up some shit to get the intercooler piping done.
Also, we have no clue what this is
We know where it mounts up on the engine block, but dunno what it does or where it’s supposed to be hooked up at? Any help would be appreciated.
kinda looks like a boost controller…but your pic is way to small to see!
If you click the pics u get a bigger version. We ran into another problem also… We weren’t gonna install the aftermarket Koyo radiator until after cuz there’s these 2 plugs we didn’t know where they went… but after we had the manifold/turbo on and tried to run the tube from the intercooler to the turbo we couldn’t cuz the stock radiators fan guards were in the way… We installed the aftermarket one (tons of room now) and now we have to figure out where these plugs go… The only plugs/wiring on the Koyo rad is at the bottom and there’s only 3… 2 of which plug into each other…
These are from the stock rad
Too bad your not in Calgary, I could do the piping for you.
actually, too bad piping doesnt grow on tree’s or fall from the sky in various applications…cuz that’d be a bigger “too bad”
amen to that
You saw on the VBOARD where I told you that was a 3bar MAP Sensor that ties into your SAFCII and your vacuum line right. It’s how you turn your SAFCII into a boosted SAFC where you’ll be able to make your corrections off of boost pressure vs. throttle position for less lag and a better tune.
Hook this up - if you know how - before you tune and you’ll get a better running car and better performance.
Yea, I posted this on both places just so I get quicker responses.
[quote=“Silverboost”]
You saw on the VBOARD where I told you that was a 3bar MAP Sensor that ties into your SAFCII and your vacuum line right. It’s how you turn your SAFCII into a boosted SAFC where you’ll be able to make your corrections off of boost pressure vs. throttle position for less lag and a better tune.
Hook this up - if you know how - before you tune and you’ll get a better running car and better performance.[/quote]
Please tell me more, sounds interesting.
OK, so the SAFCII which is all I currently use to control my fuel for my turbo kit usually makes all of its corrections based on the TPS or throttle position sensor (I’m only spelling it out in case someone else doesn’t know by the way). The problem with this, or at least it was in my case, was that I could mash the throttle to the floor and the SAFC was telling the computer to dump tons of fuel into the system because I was at full thottle, but not necessarily at full boost.
What the 3 bar MAP sensor does is take a reading off of your boost pressure and translate that into the voltage reference that now replaces what used to be a reading from throttle position. So now when I mash the throttle my fuel corrections are occuring by boost pressure. This just gives better overall performance and better boost response and so on because my fuel curve is closer to where it needs to be for that psi. In the end, now I’m not running so rich when I slam on it and bogging off the line at the track for instance - which was a big problem before I had this done… but mostly at high elevation… my turbo has virtually zero lag at sea level so it’s not as big an issue… but I still recommend it.
Anyway, that’s it in a nutshell… maybe not 100% explained the best way and someone can jump in and add to that if they want, but that’s the general idea. It’s nothign new anyhow… people have been doing this for a long time with turbo applications and SAFC.