Boost Gauges that stop at 30 always make me think of my favorite street race story. My friend Sam has a 2G Talon TSi AWD and he was getting ready to race a kid with a turbo’d Civic Hatch. One of the Civic kid’s friends started talking to Sam before the Race and the exchange went like this.
Civic guy: “How much boost are you running?”
Sam: “I don’t know.”
Civic guy: “If you don’t want to tell me you don’t have to be a dick about it dodge the question just say you don’t want to say.”
Sam: “No really, I don’t know. The boost gauge only goes up to 30 so I have no idea what it is actually doing shrug ”
I laughed so hard at the guy’s expression when Sam told him that. Even harder when the race still happened and the camera car caught the Civic.
That’s funny. Those cars used to be the shyte.
I ordered a Eurojet boost gauge, picked up an OEM downpipe gasket to use instead of the garbage that Raceland sends with their dp, installed new coil packs and spark plugs, and fitted a drain kit to my catch can today. Monday = Stage 2. Then…lower it.
*edit: Thanks NAM!