thanks to everyone who put in there tips to reaching my goal and the financial one aswell

 

Wow I woundn't have thought that it would even shift it to the left, even moreso of the awesomeness of those things, lol. Personally I don't have real dyno charts to back up all of my different setups so Im going off of what I felt, VD's from logs and what I've read on here and I can say with certainty that it fattened the powerband and the car didn't fall off on top as quickly. I would have expected a shift towards the right a smidge so thats very interesting.

At the end of the day there isn't one correct approach to adding power. It's all about finding the bottleneck. Some cars love boost others prefer timing and quite frankly different tuners have vastly different tuning styles.

And once again Im not saying the IX turbo is a bad unit; just personally I think a good set of cams should be done prior.

If you can find a IX turbo in good shape for the right price then its a nice little package. I just knew i was going to want something a little larger than that and a BBK Full popped up on here for way to cheap so I scooped that up and have been rocking in for the past IDK 4 years now.

Bummer about your IX turbo though; its not something I've seen happen too often. Id imagine its past life wasn't exactly easy.

Good luck to the OP. Im happy to see that you have a good attitude and hope you are able to enjoy your evo for many years to come

 

I was gonna post this. So, +1 LOL. I'd jump on the turbo first. That will make a big difference, right off the bat. Grab one while you still can.

 

Oops, I meant right....LOL. Turbo spooled later, like 3600 instead of 3300ish, probably because the motor was consuming more air, it wasn't down on power form 3300-3600. And it extended useable power up top by about 400-500 rpms.


The reason for me saying 9 turbo it is the cheaper route to an extra ~20hp. You can find a good used one for 300-400 with all the lines. Cams, I personally wouldn't buy used so you're looking at over $550 for those.


As far as the 9 turbo, it did 20k miles with stock cams at 30psi tapering to 22psi. Then another 5k miles with the S2's, still spiking 30psi, but tapering to about 19...lol. I gave her a rough life. Car was dailied, and I drove it hard, and I went to every autocross I could for about a year (~15 events). I wasn't up set when it went.

 

I always find this interesting. Dyno charts can be a bit deceiving, sometimes.. so I always look for the RPM where the car hits 300whp and 300wtq. I don't care where the boost plot goes, etc as long as I see 300 at a reasonable RPM.

 

Yeah, people are always concerned about boost threshold. Where the car hits 300 or 350wtq is a good indicator. Because once your on that number, the turbo is on the whip, so even a bigger turbo car is going start getting after very quickly at that point.