Dunno, but I felt more comfortable ordering straight through Alpine and paying the extra 100 bucks or so.

Mine will be here in 2-3 weeks. cool.gif

 

Uhm, no, cause then how is the stock ECU gonna do it's job? It will still need the correct sensor to work.

 

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Ehh, I thought folks were running around with the Beta 2's in their cars and only had to swap out the sensors because they wouldn't clip in.



Awesome, do the dyno's and such!

 

There is a Unichip shop only about 2-3 hours from me, so I should be hitting it up sooner or later. Based off a compression test I did I'll be installing it this winter, my compression numbers are 208-210, virtually no loss after 76k miles.

I might throw on my old DSM sidemount intercooler if I can bother remaking some of the piping.

 

Sorry for this noob question but i got to know.... The "Stage 1 Decompressed Intercooled Kit" ha got a image that says 226 WHP. Is the 226WHP gained by just installing the items that the kit includes ? Or do you have to do more to your engine to get the 226 whp.

I dont know much about turbo's yet but if i buy the kit and then let my cilinder head get flowed and put other cams in it and other valve's and valve springs and other pistons and connection rods its more safe i think.

 

Yeah, that was on just what the kit includes, with the turbo with the kit running 12 psi. Maybe with a larger exhaust on it already.

The base kit that I bought (170 whp, 190 tq) is on 8psi and the stock exhaust... so with my mods in addition ill probably be 185whp/200tq or something I imagine.

 

Is it posible to do more things to the engine to get more WHP (lagrer ports in the cilinder head and bigger throttle body and other valve's and valve spring's) Or do you have to get a other turbo and stuff to realy notice the difrence

 

That stuff makes a difference as well.

I have a larger IM/TB and a 2.5in exhaust so I'm expecting ~15whp and ~10tq over the baseline run on the entry level kit.

 

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ham, exactly which kit/combo did you get?

 

I got the entry level (non decompression, non intercooled) because a few things:

1) I'm a poor college student cool.gif
2) I don't like the idea of decompression gaskets
3) I'll probably use my old sidemount intercooler from my DSM and fab the piping for it, shouldn't be too hard. I'll stick it where the battery sits now. So I couldn't justify the extra $450 for the decomp gasket/intercooler. I probably could've gotten the intercooler and piping with no gasket for $250, but my method is cheaper at the moment as I'm stretched for cash.

I was interested in the supercharger, but superchargers being less efficient, even against something small like a TD013H turbine, and non-intercooled didn't float my boat too well.