Engine 89- rebuilt motor and its a slug

Noobz347 said:

Get a bigger pump and get it to a tuner.


or blow it up...

Get some video either way.

The stock ECU was never designed to enrich fuel under boosted conditions. It has no way of knowing that it's two or more bars over ambient air.

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CarMichael Angelo said:

So,.......
You have a stock block, stock internals, Stuck induction, stock head, twin turbo build that you just happen to remember that you also have added?

There is so much wrong here that I don't know where to start.

Define "slug".

You are now pumping your N/A exhaust through a tiny little turbine hole comparably speaking...you no longer have an optimized N/A setup, I'd imagine If I added a restriction to my exhaust, the car would run poorer just because of it. Ever watched vids of how hot a turbo gets?.....It didn't do that because its free flowing....

As long as you lined up the cam and crank dots properly, the engine will run fine. Degreeing a cam doesn't necessarily change anything to that relationship, it just confirms that it's right. The fact that you may have a cam with a higher power band won't make it a slug, it just changes where the full power is realized. In this case, that means that lower end RPM suffers, but anything after 2500 RPM is in the power band....Again,....NOT the reason the car is slow.

Do you have a reference point for how the car ran before you decided to go this route? When it's running and being a "slug", does it still run right? (i.e. no bucking, no stalling, no RPM break up?)

What ring did you use? I'm thinking an OTS set that you didn't gap. And that are now on a set of stock hyper-eutectic pistons.

When you start making boost, the associated heat from that causes the ring end gaps to close. If there isn't sufficient gap, the rings fail. They typically will butt together, and seize in the land, or potentially cut off the top ring land.

What are the two turbo's that are now on this engine? what waste gates are you using? What are you doing to control Blow off?

How much experience do you have with just getting an engine to run good? I mean forget the turbos, forget changing out the Cam, the ECU and the freaking fuel pump for now, forget the pushrods......How much experience do you have with just getting a F.I. engine to run right?

Just from what I'm reading, you are heading straight down a path towards catastrophic engine failure when/if you get to the point of making boost.

And don't listen to guys that tell you to change out junk before they ask a single freakin question.

I'm curious as to what your answers are to my questions.

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Noobz347 said:

Get a bigger pump and get it to a tuner.


or blow it up...

Get some video either way.

The stock ECU was never designed to enrich fuel under boosted conditions. It has no way of knowing that it's two or more bars over ambient air.

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