Hey! exact same thing for me! cept I lost my for 3 months but got off after a month and a half.

mods today....(and yesterday) threw in a K&N air filter, noticeably louder BOV sound, not really noticeable performance increase
put on new accessory belts... got the interior light door sensors cleaned up and working again, put a fuse inline for the 8awg wire running to my fuel pump

why the hell would you run 8awg to a fuel pump? isnt factory like 16?

factory is like 18 or something, and it's been proven that under high boost when lots of fuel is required the fuel pumps have been running at near 10 volts because of the puny wiring, the thicker wire keeps it right up there near 14 volts = more fuel

mod of the day: painted my empty engine bay and underside of the hood flat black.. youo know what that means MORE HORSEPAWER

danny before going through all the work of rewiring your power just fun a fuel press. guage and see if thats actually the case....

umm the fuel pump was rewired when i bought the car.. so no work for me, all i did was install a fuse for the cable so that if it does decide to short out, it won't start a fire

oh yeah mods of the day: washed car and waxed out some of the scratches in the hood with some mothers caranuba cleaner wax and some meguiars crystal stuff.. looks a bit better, just need to spend the time to do the whole car now..

oh yeah put in a manual boost controller, and running at 15 psi now :)

yeah 17psi was fun for a bit there ;)

*Vroooom* "OH GOD 17 psi!!" :p

How are the manual boost controllers? Just wondering 'cause I heard that they are prone to getting boost spike. Is it worth getting one or hould I stick with getting an EVC from greddy or something?

-Travis-

the EBC's are expensive if you wanna dish out money for them. when I was running the manual boost controller. mines was spiking but found out later on I hooekd it up wrong hahaha :|

Haha.. oh yeah. I might only have the cash to build the turbo kit 'cause pistons and what not are pretty friggin expensive for my car. I think I might just go with a electronic controller.. the Saturn motors can handle about 5psi max in stock form. the ring lands are kinda slim and pistons tend to "crush" if the boost is too much, so spiking would be a bad thing in my case. haha. if its able to hold 5psi steady it would be great my car would have no problems with that.

-Travis-

i ran around 8psi with my stock internals on my old car, the guy who bought it drove the fucking balls off of it on the test drive and she still held together. i was praying a rod didnt fly through my oil pan. my manual boost controller worked great didnt see any spikes.

Started my car................................it ran :D

:D

I ran 10 psi unintercooled periodically on my 10:1 compression Rabbit motor, and it still seems to work. Not sure how I got away with it. :D

Manual boost controllers aren't really any more likely to spike than an electronic, just make sure to minimize the "inertia" of the line to the wastegate: the less line and the less volume of air, the shorter the delay to wastegate response and the smaller the spike.


My mod of the day was reattaching my blown intercooler pipe. After 3 days of no boost, it feels pretty damn nice. :D

my mod of the day was buying gas again, the last full tank only got me 348km, and that's a 50ish litre tank :mad:

348km for $50... that seems pretty shitty. Mabye its time that you found out your highway milage!

that is alot of highway milage, he drives the highway to work and back every day...

AWD Turbos suck for gas mileage...

yep...that tank included a trip to penticton.. so lots of it was highway miles... whatever, from all the driving i did today the gauge didn't move.. it all depends if i hit boost or not

that's not that bad.. I was getting 280km to a 40 dollar 94 octane tank.

Just shows how bad you tune:D ;)

that's about how much i get on a $90 tank so don't whine :p

heh.. i'm not whining.. just stirring up controversy.. i mean conversation, but i'm glad i don't drive a truck, the work truck goes thru 50 dollars a day, that's to travel about 200km!

haha actualyl taht was my gas milegage when iw as N/A too. after turboeing my fuel consumption was hardly worse. Not srue why so bad on gas.. repalced o2 sensor and allt aht fuel filter. stock fuel pump wtih stock fuel pump filter sock till tho. we'lls ee if anythnig changes when i put my walbro in