I just got my first evo!!!! And for my birthday my friends got me the AEM tru-boost. Now my car is bone stock and I don't want to mess it up with running too much boost. The guy I get my parts from said that I should run an intake first than put on the boost controller. Obviously I want to get a turbo-back exhaust, and recirculating bov...(gotta have that sound) but for now I can probably put together enough money for an HKS or ARC intake. Should I bother?

 

No... The intake is not going to do much except make the car more noisier/turbo louder. The tru-boost is a good EBC but takes some time to set up. Don't waste your money on an intake, go for the exhaust first and do lots and lots of research before spending your hard earned bucks on mods

 

I'd agree an intake right now is a waste of money, and will likely make your car run like crap untuned

 

Be sure not to get parts from that guy anymore if he told you to start off with an intake - that's terrible advice on an Evo.

Also, getting an aftermarket DV, which by definition recirculates, will not get you that sound. No, you don't gotta have that sound, believe me. The aftermarket DV is for the purpose of holding boost more efficiently, which gives you more power and lessens the strain on the turbo at a given PSI.

 

hmm...isnt more power = more strain on the turbo?

 

I said at a given psi. In other words, if you are pushing 21 gauge psi on a weak bov, then the turbo is working harder to maintain 21psi than if you had a strong bov, because it's having to overcome that loss of pressure by spinning faster than it should.

Power alone doesn't put more strain on the turbo - I'm sure you knew that.

 

so which puts more strain on a turbo?

using a mbc set at 26psig and tapering to 18psig

or

one of those learning apexi avc-r set at 26 psig and tapering to 23psig?

 

I don't know. I would assume the one that forces it to maintain boost levels beyond its efficiency at high rpm, but that's not entirely relevant to what I was saying about using a more efficient BOV.

 

 

I happen to live right next to Turbotrix in Edison, so getting there for a tune isn't a problem. I was going to wait for an exhaust, intake, and ebc before I got a tune. Especially because what i just put there is like $1600 before the tune. Does anyone know of any threads with links to actual shootouts between evo exhausts and or intakes? I've been seaching a bit and havn't found much besides a lot of personal opinions. Eventually I am going to have a collection of bolt ons, I don't think that i'm going to go as far as Cams and building the engine so I'm just looking for a bit over 300whp as a daily driver with stock internals.

 

Nah, intakes are a wash, and exhausts are relatively close in power as long as they are full 3". All you need to make 330-340whp EASILY on pump gas is a TBE, mbc, and tune. That combo only costs $1270 shipped if you look in my sig. The route you're taking will cost you $2100 to make the same power, or a little more due to the custom tune vs base flash.

 

Yea you def get b300+ WHP from a full 3in exhaust,MBC and a flash.

 

His sig says he has a vIII. I think you just quoted #'s for a IX