Hey folks,

Just got my car back tonight from the engine rebuild and upgraded turbo. It looks great, sounds hot, etc but I have a couple quick questions.

1) What do you guys recommend/run for knock protection? J&S?

2) There is no retail space in my engine bay anymore so there is no pipe comming off the turbo to an air filter. Do you guys think it'd be ok to run without a filter or should I adapt a wire mesh screen on there? Or a mushroom cone filter thing if I can find one small enough to fit? I'm worried about road debris or anything being sucked in and damaging the turbo.

Thanks
-Rik

 

i would try to make some kind of intake for it. try to make some kind of custom intake or a filter. but if not at the very least run a screen on it.

 

I just run a fine screen on mine, ive only seen one piece of debris ever caught in it.

 

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1) What do you guys recommend/run for knock protection? J&S?

2) There is no retail space in my engine bay anymore so there is no pipe comming off the turbo to an air filter. Do you guys think it'd be ok to run without a filter or should I adapt a wire mesh screen on there? Or a mushroom cone filter thing if I can find one small enough to fit? I'm worried about road debris or anything being sucked in and damaging the turbo.
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1. proper ecu tuning. don't ride on bad gas, replace ignition components often enough, get wideband if you like.

2. theres always a way to fabricate some type of intake.. post pics of that area