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Thanks mate. Your responses are as fast as your car.

you can just see pauls head gettin bigger :D

what steve said is right, put the exhaust on and have a quick dyno run to check the AFR's. if theyre rediculously rich then maybe consider an AFC. you can get one of the older series ones for around the $150 mark

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I can't say that the map I used when going to the dyno was any evidence of a good tune. My afr's above 120kmh in 4th were super rich. I did mean to make them that way to minimise the ping issue. Otherwise the afr was around 12 which aint bad for a road tune.

The dyno resulted in 230 something HP at 130kmh, whatever that is in rpm (I am guessing 4700rpm) before the ping comes in.

I've got a 600HP fuel pump in now and things seem a little better coming onto the throttle than before too.

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aftermarket management would be the way to go and possibly a boost controller, then before u start playing with bigger turbos, have to consider, upgrading fuel system, and rebuild engine with stronger internals so it can cope with the power level and higher boost levels that bigger turbos produce :)

if you don't want a full on ecu, get an apexi safc or safc II which is a piggy back air fuel controller, i just got mine unitl i can afford a full on ecu :)

adrian :P

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adrian, how much did the apexi safc2 cost you and what better performance are you getin out of it?? Wheres the best place to buy one from and who do you reckemond to work on cars, i took mine to Tim Sleko to get a GFB boost controller put on (now at 10 psi), and take off the fuel regulator cause it was running too rich.

Matty P R34

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