LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
10-18-2011, 05:27 PM
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Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
So long as your running an OBD2 oil pump and its a healthy motor, you can get up to 8k rpm on stock internals.
You only need to rev as high as your engine makes power, depending on your turbo and manifold and exhaust size is how high you can continue to rev to but no further than 8k rpm. and I wouldnt keep road race it where you sustain high rpms for long periods of time but taking is to the 1320 and ripping on the street here and there wont bother it. I put 25k miles on a high milage LS reving to 8200rpm, my buddy has taken numorous stock ls bottom ends to 9k rpm and never had a rod let go but i wouldnt recomend it
You only need to rev as high as your engine makes power, depending on your turbo and manifold and exhaust size is how high you can continue to rev to but no further than 8k rpm. and I wouldnt keep road race it where you sustain high rpms for long periods of time but taking is to the 1320 and ripping on the street here and there wont bother it. I put 25k miles on a high milage LS reving to 8200rpm, my buddy has taken numorous stock ls bottom ends to 9k rpm and never had a rod let go but i wouldnt recomend it
10-18-2011, 09:10 PM
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10-19-2011, 04:38 AM
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Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
Then get another chassis dont go destroying a nice SI. CRX will be fast but plan no traction issues and not much room for anything under the hood.
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10-19-2011, 11:25 AM
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Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
Well not going to Colorado, the car i was going to be picking up was wrecked this morning. the owner hit a Moose and it was totaled. Thankfully he is ok but it will be a few weeks before i head up there.
I dont need another integra Ahmed lol, plus i still owe on the tsx
I dont need another integra Ahmed lol, plus i still owe on the tsx
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Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
10-20-2011, 06:05 PM
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I wouldnt worry too much about a program says about your duty cycle... Theres lots of variables that take into account your ACTUAL duty cycle. You can shift your duty cycle by 10-20% depending on how the tune is structured.
Just stick with what you know works.
you should be good for around 400whp, but you probably already know that.
Just run the part number from the top of the injector through google, and that will usually get you enough info to determine the nominal resistance. If you still cant find anything then just get a multimeter and see what they spec out to. lol.
Just stick with what you know works.
you should be good for around 400whp, but you probably already know that.Just run the part number from the top of the injector through google, and that will usually get you enough info to determine the nominal resistance. If you still cant find anything then just get a multimeter and see what they spec out to. lol.
Im also having this horrible wiring issue with getting a code 4. its very intermittent but Iv literally tried everything in the helms manual it says to do with trouble shooting. Iv wired two wires straight from the dizzy to the ecu and switched the wires, tried two ecus and two known good dizzys. can a bad chip burn cause this?
10-20-2011, 08:06 PM
Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
OK guys! I'm stumped! I'm looking around online and I can't find a good solution yet. Here's the problem (and I've seen some others with same issues, but not diffenative solution yet)....
I did a boost leak test last night. I was able to find a couple of big leaks, but all was OK because I tightened them up. While I was doing the test, my Hallman MBC (where it sounded like it was coming from) made a funny noise and I couldn't pressurize over about 10psi. Now, today I noticed on my way home, my whole system won't pressurize over 10psi. I was running about 17psi previously, so I know it had to be something with the test (as I'm seeing other people that had the same problem after boost leak tests).
Do you guys have any ideas?? I'm planning on pulling the cold side of the turbo off to check the big o-ring under the compressor cover incase that broke or pushed out. I guess I could try to pressure it up again and see if there are any other leaks (didn't think there were). I'm talking to the Shodan right now too to get my new turbo in and manifold ceramic coated, but this is killing me. I want to make sure that I don't have any leaks in the new setup too.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
I did a boost leak test last night. I was able to find a couple of big leaks, but all was OK because I tightened them up. While I was doing the test, my Hallman MBC (where it sounded like it was coming from) made a funny noise and I couldn't pressurize over about 10psi. Now, today I noticed on my way home, my whole system won't pressurize over 10psi. I was running about 17psi previously, so I know it had to be something with the test (as I'm seeing other people that had the same problem after boost leak tests).
Do you guys have any ideas?? I'm planning on pulling the cold side of the turbo off to check the big o-ring under the compressor cover incase that broke or pushed out. I guess I could try to pressure it up again and see if there are any other leaks (didn't think there were). I'm talking to the Shodan right now too to get my new turbo in and manifold ceramic coated, but this is killing me. I want to make sure that I don't have any leaks in the new setup too.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
10-20-2011, 11:46 PM
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Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
OK guys! I'm stumped! I'm looking around online and I can't find a good solution yet. Here's the problem (and I've seen some others with same issues, but not diffenative solution yet)....
I did a boost leak test last night. I was able to find a couple of big leaks, but all was OK because I tightened them up. While I was doing the test, my Hallman MBC (where it sounded like it was coming from) made a funny noise and I couldn't pressurize over about 10psi. Now, today I noticed on my way home, my whole system won't pressurize over 10psi. I was running about 17psi previously, so I know it had to be something with the test (as I'm seeing other people that had the same problem after boost leak tests).
Do you guys have any ideas?? I'm planning on pulling the cold side of the turbo off to check the big o-ring under the compressor cover incase that broke or pushed out. I guess I could try to pressure it up again and see if there are any other leaks (didn't think there were). I'm talking to the Shodan right now too to get my new turbo in and manifold ceramic coated, but this is killing me. I want to make sure that I don't have any leaks in the new setup too.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
I did a boost leak test last night. I was able to find a couple of big leaks, but all was OK because I tightened them up. While I was doing the test, my Hallman MBC (where it sounded like it was coming from) made a funny noise and I couldn't pressurize over about 10psi. Now, today I noticed on my way home, my whole system won't pressurize over 10psi. I was running about 17psi previously, so I know it had to be something with the test (as I'm seeing other people that had the same problem after boost leak tests).
Do you guys have any ideas?? I'm planning on pulling the cold side of the turbo off to check the big o-ring under the compressor cover incase that broke or pushed out. I guess I could try to pressure it up again and see if there are any other leaks (didn't think there were). I'm talking to the Shodan right now too to get my new turbo in and manifold ceramic coated, but this is killing me. I want to make sure that I don't have any leaks in the new setup too.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
If you had leaks before, and fixed them, its possible that your mbc was allowing for 17psi of pressure, but was only set to 10. Now that the leak is fixed, the mbc is applying the right pressure to the wastegate, and is only giving you 10psi. If so, then you just need to turn the mbc up more, to allow for whatever psi you want to run.
10-21-2011, 04:52 AM
Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
the hallman mbc has a hole on the wastegate side port. It's there to allow the wastegate to close during shifts, as a pressure relief. It will start to leak there when you pressurize the system to over what the mbc spring pressure is set to...
If you had leaks before, and fixed them, its possible that your mbc was allowing for 17psi of pressure, but was only set to 10. Now that the leak is fixed, the mbc is applying the right pressure to the wastegate, and is only giving you 10psi. If so, then you just need to turn the mbc up more, to allow for whatever psi you want to run.
If you had leaks before, and fixed them, its possible that your mbc was allowing for 17psi of pressure, but was only set to 10. Now that the leak is fixed, the mbc is applying the right pressure to the wastegate, and is only giving you 10psi. If so, then you just need to turn the mbc up more, to allow for whatever psi you want to run.
Something that makes me believe it might be something with the turbo though is it doesn't sound like my wastegate is opening above the gate pressure (about 9psi). When I have the boost controller set higher, it doesn't seem to want to boost to anything over about 10 psi.
Thanks for the help though! Keep the ideas coming please!
10-21-2011, 05:40 AM
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If your adjusting the pressure with the mbc and it still wont boost higher and you dotn have any apparent boost leaks, sounds like the turbo is going bad or a wheel is hitting a housing and not allowing the turbo to spin
Eviltek1 - not eally sure other than traction bars and some meaty slicks and some seious drag suspension, after that a long wheelie bar will act like a longer wheel base
Eviltek1 - not eally sure other than traction bars and some meaty slicks and some seious drag suspension, after that a long wheelie bar will act like a longer wheel base
10-21-2011, 06:05 AM
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I'll have to see when I get home/this weekend if I can figure out what the issue is. It's crazy that this would have RIGHT after I finish the boost leak test. Signs point to the turbo, but I have to be missing something....
10-21-2011, 08:21 AM
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Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
yes I was talk to you bigmike, if it had a caton ther and it was clogged it would cause the same issue you have. Pull the hotside charge pipe off and be sure the hot side of the intercooler isnt gcloged with debris or oil sludge
10-21-2011, 10:00 AM
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Also, has anyone ever bought an ebay exhaust system and just replaced the muffler with a quality piece?? I was thinking about doing it. I found a couple of posts online with people who said they did it with some success and it worked out well. It would definitely be a cheap way of upgrading my exhaust from 2.5" to 3".
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Re: LST / LS-T Turbo B18A B18B setups
There "OK" but fitment isnt that great. did one on my buddies delsol a few years back, fit like crap. you can get kteller piping kit for a good price and just buy mufflers
10-21-2011, 06:15 PM
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Like turbols said, Kteller pipe kitt, weld it on. You will never run another premade exhaust again!!!