Originally Posted by ImportLabSRT

As Matt posted, I have spent the past couple weeks getting the car looking a little better for Hot Import Nights. Added my new wheels, some window tint and Koni Shocks with Eibach springs.

Now for the turbo news.....I daily drive this car and have yet to have any problems other than a little overheating issue. 2 weeks ago there was a few days where the outside temp was over 100deg and where my FMIC is located, it was blocking most of the air going to the radiator. Nascar style, I pulled the front lower grills and the temps went back down to normal.
I now have 2k miles on this setup and love it. City I get about 22mpg and highway I get 28mpg with A/C on and 31mpg w/o A/C. I have yet to up the boost and play with the tune. The car is on the rich side for safety so more power is there even at 15-16psi that I am at now. When its cold out at night, I see 18+ psi at times and the car hauls ***.....bbbbuuuuttt if the car sees 20psi, the ECU gets a little pissed off and cuts fuel + spark.
As for track use, a torque converter is going to be needed to get the car off the line. I can only get 11-1200 rpms out of my stock converter at the line before I push the front wheels thru the beam. At 1100rpms, the turbo only builds about 1lb of boost and when I let off the brake the car bogs and slowly crawls to a 2.6 60ft and blows my Hoosiers away going into 2nd and at times 3rd. My next goal is to get 20-21psi out of this thing. Fuel injectors and a fuel pump will have to be sourced