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Really good article. Tons of good info in that article. Thanks again. I should be good, the hose is high temp and the turbo is clocked accordingly. Mark ran this setup for four years.

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Wideband is installed in a temporary spot until I make the pod for it. I am having a little trouble finding a power source for it. Everything I spliced into is damn constant. Any suggestions are welcome. Which is weird because I tapped into the same source as my turbo timer and that only comes on after I turn the car on. For some reason, the gauge just stays on. Got tired of messing with it so I just unplug it for now when I turn the car off. Tomorrow, or Sunday, I will go ahead and mount the vacuum block and run the boost gauge to it so I don't have to do it later. When I install the turbo, I'll run the source and the rest of the lines to it. Well that's it all for now. Just waiting for the SCT to come in.

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Find the wire for radio turn-on to power gauges.
 
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Funny you mention that because I have the same problem with my aftermarket head unit. I bought the harness and the only way with that harness to get it to work was running the 12v to yellow constant. I have to manually turn it off. Never had that problem with any other car or stereo that I've installed. Tried multiple different sources. I even tried running a wire over to the ignition and got the same result. Obviously I've done something wrong somewhere. Just need to start from scratch. Going offshore fishing all day tomorrow but Sunday, I'll take it all apart and start over.

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Not sure if anybody cares but I figured I'd show you guys a picture of the 6ft shark I caught.
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It was a fun day out there. Tons of fish.
Back to the car. Still deciding where to mount the gauges so for now I'm doing it like this.
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Got the wire situation taken care of. There is a white/LT blue ignition wire in the kick panel which works really good cause there is a few grounds you can use there too. Time to solder and clean it up. Boost gauge didn't fit on the left side without crimping the vacuum line. Still looking at options for that. I plan on getting the aem truboost so I might just mount it in a bracket on the left side of the dash like fswerks did for their orange and black sema car.

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I just sent u An email of how I installed mine with a gauge pod from eBay they cost 20dlls I'm putting the boost gauge on top of the afr
 
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Forget about the car, let's go fishing! I've never fished in salt water, looks like fun.
Glad to see progress.
 
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Thanks Mark. Just let me know if your ever heading down south man and I'll set something up. I try to go as much as I can. That day we caught a bunch of snapper, amber jacks and sea bass. Had to reel fast because of the barracudas. Couple times didn't reel fast enough lol. A lot of fun.
Progress is definitely a good thing. Just waiting to get paid on the first. Exhaust, downpipe, tune. That's all I have left. Checked FedEx and the new flange comes in today. I'll post some pics. Waiting for the xcal to come in from Tom. That's it. I'll finish up the hotside once the downpipe is made. I mapped it out for how I think it will go but need to see how everything will fit together. Trying to find a good place to mount the vacuum block. Going to be somewhere by where the stock intake is. I'll post pics when I do that as well.

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Here is my final vac block setup:
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From top to bottom:
- boost controller
- meth injection controller
- boost gauge
- bov

I fly fish in fairly small streams, where I literally have to hide from the fish! It also involves backpacking 8 miles one-way to set up camp. There a 12" trout is big. :)
 
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What port on the manifold did you use?
I do mostly creek fishing here and we have a couple different trout you can catch. Some get pretty big. Speckled trout has to be over 15". Biggest I've caught was 27". Really good to eat.

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Hughesy27 said:
What port on the manifold did you use?
I do mostly creek fishing here and we have a couple different trout you can catch. Some get pretty big. Speckled trout has to be over 15". Biggest I've caught was 27". Really good to eat.

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Wild rainbow and native brook trout is typically what we fish for.

I run a 3/8" heater hose from the evap system port. You can see it under the IAC:
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On a side note, this aluminum intake manifold is a heat-soak disaster. [:(!]
I'm going to have to figure out a thermal spacer to separate it from the head, and also line the underside of it with reflective heat tape since the coolant lines lay right against it.
The added intake temps counteract the benefit of the meth injection. Very frustrating.
 
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I've noticed how hot mine gets. That sucks about the meth injection. I kept seeing you mention it and started looking up info on it. Do the cossie's do the same thing? Btw I like the painted fuel rail. Might do that when I switch the injectors out.

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Hughesy27 said:
I've noticed how hot mine gets. That sucks about the meth injection. I kept seeing you mention it and started looking up info on it. Do the cossie's do the same thing? Btw I like the painted fuel rail. Might do that when I switch the injectors out.

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The meth injection seems to drop the intake temp around 30*, but this new manifold soaks up the heat from the head it increases the temp at least 30* and just doesn't cool down. I'm going to experiment with a custom silicone gasket to separate the metal-to-metal contact to the head.
Yes the cossie IM would be exactly the same. You can see where I mounted the IAT sensor.
Note: the temperature comparisons are not taking into consideration the IAT has moved from the piping where the MAF is located to the intake manifold. There is always the chance the factory manifold also got that hot, but I'm seriously doubting that because that plastic doesn't soak up heat like metal.
 
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Thanks for the info. So I should get an iat sensor then to keep track of that. Seems worth it to get the meth injection. Gonna do some more research on it. Which brand did you go with if you don't mind? So what did you do with the evap? Thanks for all your help man.
Here is the new flange that I got from atpturbo.
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I removed the evap purge canister and tucked the inlet line behind the others. I also turned it off in the tune. As long as the fuel system is vented that's all the matters. That freed up the manifold port.
The meth injection system I have is a custom tank, a pump and boost switch from http://www.alcoholinjectionsystems.com, line and 2gph nozzle from http://www.alcohol-injection.com/en/.
I'll post a thread about it after I play with it and get it dialed in. Right now I have basically zero information to share about it.
 
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OK I was checking out the aem system. Lot of info on there and has YouTube video that breaks down how it works. I'll post a link up on here. Seems like a really good mod. Makes sense to use it. Anything that helps cool temps is a plus.

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Yes the cossie IM does the same and I was thinking about putting an spacer myself my bro put one in (phenolic) his Saturn I will ask him about the sizes of the spacer cause there is not much space between the fan and the IM
 
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