B_Real45

You know how much debri a street car sucks up through an unfiltered turbo?

I've had friends loose turbos from Holsets to Garrett GT's cuz they liked the way it sounded without a filter.

rhythmnsmoke

On some cars, the filter helps to stabilize the air entering the turbine as well.

ecko04

You do know that was from the same guy that said the only race is in a straight line

The other thread is heading down the epic route

scikotictc232

funny story that reminds me of. Their used to be this older military dude that used to live in my area. If anyone has seen the movie grand torino that main character was this dude except the other way around. He was white but he hated muscle cars so much and he drove a 4 door 97 civic. He built it 3 times since I had known him and it cost him close to 90,000. This guy was sooooooo serious bout it, he had all the latest products and ____ you would see in magazines on exotic cars. well he was running the open turbo like that and we went out one night on a cruise down into oregon and I was following him with my windows open cruising at some high speeds out in the middle of no where surrounded by farm fields and I kept hearing his turbo spool and the release air and spool and release air and then 20 minutes deep I hear the nastiest screeching noise I have ever head. Made me shake I pulled over with him and he had sucked a piece of tar into his turbine that the car infront of him kicked up. destroyed a 1800 turbo. compressor wheel was litterally in pieces and oil was pouring out of it.
so in other words not the smartest idea. At the track though different story if you put at least something on it that can stop big rocks.

Skeeeett

iTrader: (5)

i wouldnt be able to do that anyway bc i have the vents in my hood and they sit right over my turbo, but if i happend to do the blow thru maf set up i'd make a shield for over the filter to put on the turbo so i dont suck in water all the time wen it rains.

what about people that put that little "cage" over the compressor side were its open. i've seen people do that but its still pretty much the same as being open jsut big stuff cant fly into there, still wouldnt trust that though i like the filter just slapped on the turbo better than leaving it open

rhythmnsmoke

LOL.....Noted.

CarbonXe

iTrader: (1)

Let's not forget that he also said that when building a motor, balancing it is a waste of money and time.

rhythmnsmoke

Noobs...

scikotictc232

what thread is that from ? I wanna see .

ecko04

Be prepared for a couple of face palms......

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...009&highlight=

crush02342002

iTrader: (2)

i walked in on tail end of all that...epic stuff

scikotictc232

wow page 2 everyone arguing like lil girls ill see what happens

ecko04

Update 6/19/2009

Ditched the AEM UEGO Wideband AFR. I didn't like it and the readings weren't as precise as I would have preferred them to be. I tried some different ground poitns and it still seemed to be off, showing a lean reading when I was really rich.

Anyway bye-bye AEM UEGO, hello Innovate LC-1 w/ DB Gauge FTMFW

rhythmnsmoke

Interesting.....never had a problem with the UEGO.

ecko04

Could have been a bad sensor, who knows, all I know is mine was a POS at least in my car. Now its for sale so maybe it'll work for them

crush02342002

iTrader: (2)

^^ how much? elevation was supposed to sell me his but idk what happened with that.

ecko04

An arm, a leg and your 1st born son. It was used for 19 days so iono, PM me an offer. We'll work something out of course.

Cwatz5219

I just read that entire thread..... EPIC

ecko04

Update 6/24/2009

Thanks to a fellow SL member my car is finally tuned, AFR's are on target and car fires up each and every time with no problems!!! I had no idea someone could be so good at street tuning; I would pay him but he did it just to help. He as been helping me ever since I got my car back from Lethal Injection and i'm so happy with the way it runs. I still plan on going to P-tuning to have it tuned again at the beginning of August.

So now that my plastic valve cover no longer fits I wanted to have the hideous metal valve cover powder coated but i'm a graduate student and I simply did not have the money the companies want to powder coat a valve cover so instead I bought the supplies to paint my valve cover wrinkle black.

This weekend I will have the energy suspension motor mounts installed and next weekend I will be installing the TRD rear sway bar, Mishimoto radiator, gates thermostat and fel-pro exhaust manifold gasket.

The Fel-pro gasket, while I have no proof, with RTV seems like it would seal MUCH better than the stock gasket. So I plan on installing it with RTV to see if my assumptions are correct. Here is a comparision of the Fel-pro vs the Toyota gasket.

B_Real45

lookin' good! I need to do my valve cover as well.

The Mishimoto is a nice rad - just make sure you tighten up those plastic fittings and get a nice amount of thread tape on there.