LOL.., nice !! I hope you have tires in the budget, burned rubber smoke can be habit forming

 

Dudeee sweet write up man! I have been watching your videos on youtube for months and had know idea it was you till today! hahahaha

On your set up or a 5.3L what is the max "safe" boost range to run on 93 octane? around 10psi?

 

^^ any boost can be unsafe, but yes most will agree an engine on 10psi will last a long time.


sweet burn outs! how can u build 5psi ? hydro boost?

 

Thanks bud! Yea I think 10-12psi would be perfect to run safely


I don't know how I can build that much boost with this set up. I still have vacuum brakes and I wasn't using the 2 step. It sure fries the **** out of the tires though. This truck is going to be insane when I get the boost up around 35psi


These tires are going to go fast. And tires are so damn expensive

 

Got the muffler to the exhaust shop and back. I got it bolted up under the truck. Went to start it... Dead battery. Of course...

I was going to try and drive it home tonight for the first time but it looks like it wasn't meant to be. I have the truck on the charger as we speak so hopefully I can at least get it turned over and started for an exhaust clip.

 

I left my HPT module plugged into the OBD2 port so that is what drained the battery. I couldn't get it to start with the battery charger so I had to jump it with my car. The truck is SUPER quite like stock. You can't even hear the exhaust unless you walk to where it its dumped over the axle. It is exactly what I wanted.

The turbo is super quiet though now. When I had an open downpipe, you could hear the BW whistle anytime you were in the throttle. Now I can barely hear the damn thing. Is that because of an increase of back pressure?

 

Your compressor cover has the "silencer ring" in it. I've seen the race covers with and without them but not sure if it's removable of not.

 

There are 3 or 4 little allen screws around the perimeter you can remove to take it out, but unless you just want noise it wont add any power, might actually loose some.

 

Interesting. Is that little hole where the allen screw is on the compressor inlet?

 

Yea its on the outside of the inlet...where you normally slip a coupler over to attach and air filter.