PTUNING Turbo Kit Owners Topic

[bjun]

Originally Posted by nguyen_er

Thanks! I was thinking of getting this turbo kit soon and that would have been a deal breaker. One of my friends told me I'd lose air conditioning guess he doesn't know what he's talking about. lmao

Well you can't always believe what others tell you. Even a ls motor swap could still have air conditioning.
You should study on turbo maintenance first though if you don't know much about cars

[sw20kosh]

Turns out my trunk had a giant crack/tear (about 2 feet long) right where the trunk floor meets the rear sheet metal. It was letting in lots of sound and drone. I have since sealed it up with epoxy and the exhaust is magnitudes quieter. It is a very nice sounding exhaust. I also adjusted the exhaust pieces a little to gain a bit of clearance. Will see how this pans out.

[OICU812]

Originally Posted by sw20kosh

UPDATE: Turns out my trunk had a giant crack/tear (about 2 feet long) right where the trunk floor meets the rear sheet metal. It was letting in lots of sound and drone. I have since sealed it up with epoxy and the exhaust is magnitudes quieter. It is a very nice sounding exhaust. I also adjusted the exhaust pieces a little to gain a bit of clearance. Will see how this pans out.

HOW heck you get an actual crack/tear?

[OICU812]

So... what's the plug and play thermostatically controlled engine oil cooler that fits with this kit (with no issues and perfect fitment0?

[King Tut]

Originally Posted by OICU812

HOW heck you get an actual crack/tear?

This.

[sw20kosh]

Originally Posted by OICU812

HOW heck you get an actual crack/tear?

I had to file down a lip under the trunk when routing my custom 3" exhaust that used to poke out of the crash beam. Looks like I weakened the junction just enough for it to crack at the seam. The two pieces of sheet metal are heald together by some sort of soft epoxy which got brittle from the heat I am guessing.

It's all fixed now.
@King Tut

[bjun]

So I know the header in coming out soon. And I drove all the way to Virginia to have my car tuned. And I will need retune once I install headers. Any possible way have an etune? Virginia was such a long trip lol but I do not want to have my car tuned here either. Or if etune is not possible, what would you say is the life expectancy of stock headers? Will I be good for few x0,000 miles if I boost moderately on street and track seldomly?
And I'm pretty sure this was probably mentioned but do you plan on UEL or EL?

Edit: P.S: Sorry if my sentences sound a bit weird. I can't tell at the moment because my brain is fried from cramming for my ochem midterm tomorrow, but I can't focus with the thought of the header in my head, so I had to post this now lol

[JerryMichaels7]

With the way the Ptuning kit is setup I personally would not use the stock header, period. I understand Ptuning has not had any issues but i belive there were 2 report issues of the cats breaking up and damaging the turbo down stream of the cats( Not on the Ptuning kit, similiar setup though). Why that happened I am not sure, its just something I would not risk.

[bjun]

Originally Posted by JerryMichaels7

With the way the Ptuning kit is setup I personally would not use the stock header, period. I understand Ptuning has not had any issues but i belive there were 2 report issues of the cats breaking up and damaging the turbo down stream of the cats( Not on the Ptuning kit, similiar setup though). Why that happened I am not sure, its just something I would not risk.

That is exactly my worry. :/

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by JerryMichaels7

With the way the Ptuning kit is setup I personally would not use the stock header, period. I understand Ptuning has not had any issues but i belive there were 2 report issues of the cats breaking up and damaging the turbo down stream of the cats( Not on the Ptuning kit, similiar setup though). Why that happened I am not sure, its just something I would not risk.

Originally Posted by bjun

That is exactly my worry. :/

Or simply cut out the Cat and replace with a straight pipe in that section, quick, cheap, easy solution.

[bjun]

Originally Posted by Sportsguy83

Or simply cut out the Cat and replace with a straight pipe in that section, quick, cheap, easy solution.

Thanks for suggestion, but I'd like to keep the cat for legal purposes. Plus I don't want my car sounding like crap and obnoxious, my neighbors already hate me lol
And wouldn't straight pipe mess with back pressure?

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by bjun

Thanks for suggestion, but I'd like to keep the cat for legal purposes. Plus I don't want my car sounding like crap and obnoxious, my neighbors already hate me lol
And wouldn't straight pipe mess with back pressure?

Keep Cat for legal purpose, just relocate it to after turbo.

There is no bigger/better muffler that the turbo itself.

For turbo, you want the LEAST amount of backpressure possible so removing the cat is actually a great thing.

[bjun]

Originally Posted by Sportsguy83

Keep Cat for legal purpose, just relocate it to after turbo.

There is no bigger/better muffler that the turbo itself.

For turbo, you want the LEAST amount of backpressure possible so removing the cat is actually a great thing.

Oh that makes sense. But still, I'd rather spend a bit more for quality
Besides wouldn't I need to retune with straight pipe also? My whole point of trying to keep stock manifold is so I do not have to get a retune because I cannot trust the tuners here 100%. So I'm just wondering how safe it is to keep the stock header with the PTuning kit.

[Sellout]

So I'm just wondering how safe it is to keep the stock header with the PTuning kit.

You already have your answer. If you don't like it, go ahead and leave the factory cat in place and start saving up for when it comes apart.