hows the transition from no boost to boost? have you put the new fuel pump in yet? if you havent thats why its not running good at WOT. i have never heard of anyone using their stock fuel pump on their turbo car. your stock pump is really only meant to pump about 30 psi....your turbo system needs so much more than that at WOT. i wouldnt worry about that right so much right now..the transition is the big prob.

 

also, you cant achieve full boost unless the wastegate is working....

 

The transistion to boost is fine now. I hooked up the lines from the one feeding the regulator like you mentioned and things are good. I'm sure onnce I get the fuel pump (should be any day now), things will be grand at WOT. The wastegate seems to be alright too.

One thing that I'm still confused about is that I seem to be running rich at idle. Not just a little rich, but fairly rich. Is this normal after doing something like this, or is my FMU stuck closed or something?

 

ummmmmm you may want to redefine what you said on that one light.... cause achieving full boost on a turbo with 300+ hp efficiency would be a bad thing. ^_^

 

[&:]??? The word "Efficiency" in the turbo world is related to thermaldynamics...what are you saying? I think I missed something.

 

im saying full boost in the sense of the full boost that you want the engine to run on... in this case 7-8 psi..the boost guage should just absolutely slam into the wall at 7 or 8 psi and stay there rock solid. also MBO it is very common for the car to run rich at idle dont worry too much about it as long as the car idles well. the idle on an engine are the hardest blocks in the fuel map to get right. i see even highly tuned cars with thousands of dollars in stand alone engine management and at idle the auto meter is banging left to right back and forth unable to get it just right. even if the a/f is banged all the way over it is not a problem.

 

Yeah, idle bounces just like you said. Other than that things are fine. I'm expecting the walbro any day now. Is it absolutley required to install it in tank, or can I get by with it in line? I know i'll have to disable the stock one regardless, and that pumping through it will slightly hurt my psi... just wondering if it's possible to aviod dropping the fuel tank...

 

hey yea that walbro should be an in tank unit. if it is....when you see it youll know that it has to go in the tank. you shouldnt have to drop the tank though. the pump should be sitting right under the back seat. shouldnt be very hard to get at.. damn it sounds like your is starting to run real good. dont get to frustrated with it just think about how much better its running now as opposed to before. it was only like 2 weeks ago it wasnt even running at all. you officially pimped that install im gonna have to give you an A plus on that one. one more thing though that you should keep in the back of your mind is that your stock injectors have a specific duty cycle which you may or may not be overdoing. if that is the case you will need to upgrade your injectors to a set of 330cc rc engineering injectors. but i think the new pump will probably work just fine.

 

My hanes manual said I had to drop the tank... I notice there is an access plate though under the back seat. I thought that might have been the pump or the fuel sender. Oh well, that'd be great if I didn't have to drop the tank.

I've read in my research that it's probably not a great idea to do much more than 6 psi with a rising rate FMU, since it will put a lot of stress on the injectors. Any ideas as to what injectors could take the fuel pressures of 8 - 10 psi? Are those rc engineering ones a lot stronger?

This whole install has been a great learning expirience. Yeah, like you said lightshow, last week my car really didn't even run. I wasn't sure if I'd ever get things going when I started piecing together my kit back in october, but things are cookin' now. Thanks all the info!

 

no prob... glad i was able to help you came to the right place. those rc injectors are outstanding the 330 cc injectors will easily handle 10 psi. and then when you want to move up to about 14 - 20 they have the next step up which i think is around 450cc.