Not for me, thanks! Far more important things will happen to my car in the next year and my decision to go with the black is that it might be what I stick with long-term. Eventually I hope to have a solution for the top end power the Black gives up to a 35r but that won't be for awhile.

If you took a picture of da Rock's closet in a year I bet it won't be nearly as fast or as pimp as his car!

 

3582 just because every stock location turbo looks like poop in the engine bay.

 

Your choice of words had me LOST there for a minute... maybe i'm just getting old but where does that 'closet' word come from? First time I hear of it and the only relation i have to a man and a closet is either his wardrobe closet or well the homosexual connotation that the word carries. Trust me, it took me a while to get the 'ricer' word pat down, so thanks for the Car Slang 101, but yeah you said it best; all of us hope our car from now to an X/Y timeframe will be faster or 'pimpier' as thou might say. Going faster never stops.

Oh and just like it was told to Bryan: It's not how you stand by your car, it's how you drive your car; by that prerogative I see fit then this saying: It's not what you have in the closet, it's what you've got under hood.

Then again, as Robin Leach would say: Champagne wishes, Caviar dreams, and Bugatti Veyrons to Everybody.

Semantics; Gotta Love'em.

 

^whoops, inside joke I guess. Rockman is pretty well known to have the fastest closet around these parts. He has a lot of parts stored up that he hasn't gotten to installing yet.

Going faster may never stop but for me the jumps happen slower in relation to the curve going higher. I just don't get a chance to utilize what I have often enough. That said, there is still a lot of "cheap" power to pull from the black. I'm on the stock bottom end and a relatively conservative top.

There are also a couple of other things I'm looking at doing that will easily have me at 600whp which I just don't see pushing too far past. Power will start getting more expensive and I will have to go under the assumption that things will start to break.

 

Yup that is right 600 is waaaaaaaaaaay more then enough my goal was only 500 lol. Bring you car to my closet and it will leave a monster

hmmm more power more problems remember that

 

my car is a daily driver, drive it every day, perfect idle, perfect sound, nearly 600 whp on a stock head, OLD SCHOOL gsc 272 cams, stock valve train, stock intake manifold, stock TB, with a built 2.3L bottom end.

34-35 psi on e85.

with a intake manifold and a built head this car will be way over 600 whp.

600 whp is not to much i personally think. its a blast and depending on your setup very streetable

FP BLACK for the win.

 

Im in the 500 whp range now and im so use to it feels like nothing..600 whp will be perfect almost all my friends have 600 whp or over in their street cars..Zondas i think u have been watching to much of jermey from top speed...

 

Remember that? I mean, seriously; what has that got to do with anything I said. I just never heard of a closet going fast...

 

you made a comment about more power. so i was just saying. its your wallet and time do what you wish just offering short simple advice.

 

on another note Dr.SS is the br double pumper loud?? like can you hear that thing hardcore like dynoflashes weldon??

 

you dont see it cause fp is a great company and replaces them...so why would a customer say anything??

i have 2 buddies who have both been through 2 plus reds and are now on ball bearing turbos..with tubular manifolds now.

they got sick of the down time...

i have had a 30r ...now a hta 3582 and beat the **** out of them never blew a turbo


if you are going to run mild boost under 25 lbs sure a stock frame turbo is great.

but if you want to run higher boost they dont last.

 

The reason why the black's seem to fail along with the red's was just the oil pressure. Since this thing is stock frame and revving so high there wasnt enough oil pressure in the cartridge creating all these failures I suspect. That's why they made the line kit so there would be enough pressure. I mean a stock mitsu housing hotside being that small with compressor wheel creates a lot more strain but FP is on top of it. I am not a bandwagonner of any sort. I just try to understand things a little better than most.

And am a DSMer at heart still.

 

People have blown the turbo recently - with all the new lines and filters. o-townFLA had a brand new current version: lines/etc seize on him and end his time attack season.

 

Did he use the 1 year warranty ??

 

A buddy of mine is doing a black...I told him not to..so we'll see how it goes.