Trust me on that one , fat girls love the candy !!! And yeah 2.5 is all we'll need on the lancers and it saves weight and maybe a bit of cash as well .

 

i dont understand how and why you spend a crap load of money, but with little to no supporting mods...kinda like you had 3 g's but couldnt wait..

no gauges...no wideband...no exhaust?... seriously? sorry to say but the job is almost half assed... if this were a shop trying to get baselines for a stock engine car with nothing and wanted to see gains then yes... i can see the route that you went...

no wonder the numbers seem low... at least it kinda makes sense now

 

wow man you are a douche bag....seriously??? i dont have new exhaust, AFR, or a NEW boost gaguge because all my money went into the turbo. Sorry everyone isnt as rish as you and can just spend thousands of dollars whenever they feel like it with absolutely no impact on the rest of their finances. I took the turbo money out of my college savings and the rest of it I need to put towards college. I have a boost gauge and custom pillar pod waiting for more gauges. Im trying to sell a lot of things to make money to buy an exhaust and AFR and new gauges now, so dont bring your bull**** comments in here. also, if you think the job is half assed, then so is RRMs. their kit does NOT come with an AFR, any gauges, or new exhaust either. Just the turbo kit like xtremeboosts. Also, in the future i will do more supporting mods like pistons, maybe crank, head work, etc. to up the boost and power.

again, sorry I am not a rich mother ****er like you and can buy 10gs worth of stuff at once.

 

i never said i was rich...

but i also have never went into my mods half assed...

you second sentence says it clearly ...going turbo is expensive, and if you are going to spend that much $$$ at least have the minimum support mods to go along with it... if you think about it im not the rich one, i think about how carefully my mods are going to affect the car and the possible consequences....

exhaust, at the very least....and im not sure if xtremeboost pushed that on you... but i sure would have...its a limiting factor of the set-up... and saving up ...what another $300 for a custom exhaust...would have yielded you better results...

as for the RRM kit, i hever have mention anything about rrm's kit...nor did i say it was complete...i have talked to those guys on occasion ... and i know that while buying their kit would have been fine on a stock set-up...they sure would have told me and let me know that if i was spending that much money i might as well do my turbo back at the same time....

heres an analogy for you and i hope you get it... buying a bare turbo kit, especially when all of your money went to it is like buying a bottom line evo RS in japan(basically just motor and body nothing special about it stripped to the absolute minimums to get by...) with all the money going towards the car itself, and no money left for anything else...

whats an evo worth if, it didnt have its brakes, wheels, tires, and seating?... worthless right?

 

I hope you do not get offended but you seem to have lots of interest in a turbo kit thread for car you no longer own - just my observation . Anyways , our idea is that not everyone wants an evo not everyone likes a loud car so I always told Cory I'd like the numbers on the stock exhaust then we can change it . Also when we installed the kit we did the first street runs using our Autronic wideband
to make sure its safe then the tuning was finished using the dyno wideband .


Thanks for you post

 

nope... not offended at all...ive been a part of the lancer community for a while, and im still an officer of SoCal lancer... and i very much in touch with the lancer/legacy community as it was once filled with family... one day i may pick up another lancer, i actually offered to trade the audi in and for me to keep the lancer so i can boost it... or keep a third car, but financially it didn't make sense, at least not yet...

just as my observation...that to get into a kit without no supporting mods, especially one that hasn't been tried and proven to be true, would have been suicide for someone to find out the hard way, when they could have spent 1/6th of what they just spent on things like an exhaust...

 

Maybe he's mad because his car only looks like an evo.. ?

edit: it's a joke btw.

 

You will be fine without gauges for awhile. Besides a boost gauge all the other gauges were the last things that I installed on any of my cars. Looking at your future mods I would hold off on the pistons for awhile. I had a 03 wrx that I was running at 23psi with meth injection and it did not have forged pistons. The car ran for a long time until I sold it.

 

Thanks for YOUR observation BUT , we had already done one car before this one which may I add it run much higher boost without "suicide" . Also keep in mind this car is local , so when we did the install we made sure everything was "safe" BEFORE allowing him to beat on the car- so I really see zero issue with any of that ! We've done this once or twice before over the last 8 years we've been in business ..

 

If the car didn't come with a turbo, and thus doesn't have the built in safe guards, you absolutely need gauges. At the very least, you need a boost gauge. We're not talking about a car that can handle a lot of boost, if you're meant to be boosting 9 PSI and you're actually boosting 12 PSI, you could blow the motor. An A/F gauge/wideband is probably a good idea as well.

 

It's called waiting. I won't comment on the whole issue of using college money on a car but if you can't do something right the first time, don't do it at all. I waited 6 months with a turbo beside my bed before I put it in. Why? Because I wanted to get the proper intercooler, the proper boost solenoid, the proper gaskets, deal with a tuning issue, etc.
RRM isn't half-assed for not providing everything you need, they also don't provide oil or coolant. It's the customer's job to get everything they need to do the job right.

 

how much PSI do you think the kit can handle after we get forged internals?

 

well its hard to save up another 300 measely dollars when you dont have a job, and i know a bigger custom exhaust would have yielded better results, im not stupid. xtremeboost did not push a new exhaust on me, they suggested it, and i also already knew I would need a new exhaust.

you said with out new exhaust, AFR gauge, and other gauges, the kit is half assed. well, RRMs kit doesnt come with new exhaust, AFR gauge, or any other gauges, so I assume, by your thinking, that the RRM kit is also half assed.

I am holding off for a while, only because I do not have the money for pistons + installation of them, etc. Especially after i get the money for new gauges, new exhaust, new clutch, and some other small mods perhaps. also, WRXs come turboed, so their internals, though not forged, are stronger and boost ready

its not like the stock exhaust piping is "wrong", its just not allowing as much power to be made. everything works 100% fine, but a bigger exhaust WOULD get me for power. also, why arent you saying the same thing to any of the RRM turbo guys? not once have i heard of them upgrading their exhaust, getting gauges, adding clutches (except 09_lancer_gts, congrats to him btw lol) adding pistons, etc. i dont understand why THIS kit ONLY is being flamed for being half-assed.....hmmm

also, about the money thing, my mom let me spend that money on the turbo kit and nothing else. everything else, i have to make the money, but without a job, its very hard to make money, even just a small $300 for an exhaust. everyone elses bank accounts probably arent monitored by their parents.....or else id have my new exhaust, gauges, clutch, pulley, pistons, springs, rear sway bar, lower tie bars, CF hood, rims, new tint, and anything else that i can possibly think of.

 

Depends, I'm sure plenty of people would consider it foolish to spend 3000$ on a turbo kit when you can't afford a new exhaust, gauges, etc. let alone the cost of a new motor (which I'm sure costs more than a new exhaust, gauges, etc). Running a turbo through a highly restrictive, NA exhaust definitely is not the best setup.
I don't think people were flaming the kit, they were simply questioning this setup, especially given the comments regarding how financially tight it is.

 

well im trying the best I can to hurry and get the new exhaust...i know what muffler I want and all, I just need a quote from Frank for the custom piping and all. as soon as I get the money, exhaust is going on and all will be well behind the turbo I am currently selling a bunch of stuff on craigslist to try and get the muffler. also, i wouldnt say my exhaust is HIGHLY restrictive, because it has no resonators and no more cat and a custom flowmaster muffler

btw, nice avatar hahaha