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took the car for a drive through the canyon today. Man it felt so good. The hypercos and AGX handle so well on the B14. It corners flat, and doesn't oversteer like stock since I took the front roll bar off.
The turbo response above 5000rpm is instant. I played around with the car through the corners and really feeling everything that was going on. Had my best friend with me (used to be his car actually) and he was super impressed with the overall package. On 10psi no system on the car feels overworked. The motor revs so smooth, and sounds great on VVL. The full exhaust is getting put on tomorrow. No more open downpipe.
We went to this mountain road called the Ogden Divide, it is uphill between 15 and 20*. It is pretty steep. The car pulled through 3rd like it was nothing, I had to tone things down. If anything gives you a sense of a slow car, it is a steep mountain pass. but this doesn't feel slow. At all. My wifes GA16 can't barely go up through 2nd gear lol.
Under decel and just a hair of throttle there is a very unique popping and backfiring. It sounds like Jiffy Pop. So the whole way down the mountain I was barely touching the throttle and making it pop while in VVL. Awesome.
Car made it back in one piece. No overheating! Even though it was really hot out. I do need to cut a vent in the hood though, because it still gets very hot under there.
I am half tempted to just leave it at 10psi for the street. It still has a crap load of power. It is actually faster now on 10psi than it ever was on 15-16psi.
I am going to take it to the dyno to get some low boost runs this thursday. How much you guys think 10psi will make?
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Originally Posted by Coheed 
my bad, for some reason I thought you said you were taking it to the strip. 
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