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BenFenner Agreed. With the extra displacement and flow working in your favor 14-15 WHP per psi should be quite obtainable. The slightly lower compression is working against you, but still, I see it happening. Getting into the efficiency range of the turbo with more pressure should help too if you're not there yet.
GT37 Turbo is good for 600-700 WHP. We are at 79% to 91% of that WHP range depending on how you look at if from 550 WHP.
Now if a turbo is only good for 600-700 WHP. Boost has nothing to do with the effiecy range. If this motor was 4L and made 600-700 WHP at 15 PSI then thats all the turbo has and nothing more.
That being said, it has nothing to with the efficincy range of the turbo at this point, a turbo of this size would 100% make 13-15 WHP already at 20 PSI, so you are incorrect. Also compression has nothing to do with the avergae WHP gain of a turbo as it goes up in boost.
It has to do more with the exhaust. The exhaust is full 3 inch but the Apexi Dunk has some silencer pipe design that only has a 2.65 inside diameter.
The 2.2VE motor at 9-1 compression and ported head would make no more than 225-230 WHP NA. On boost we made 445 WHP at 10 PIS. This is 215 WHP more. That is an average of 21.5 WHP per every pound of boost from 1-10 PSI.
The average of 11 WHP fron 11-19 PSI has to do with air flow.
As you go higher up it takes more to push the air through the exhaust making it less effecient. That being said 580-600 WHP is what the car will make once the larger 3.5 inch exhaust goes on which will keep the boost to WHP average higher up before it drops off. Decreasing efficiency on a 3.5 in exhaust will start at 700 WHP or so.
I dont raise boost to make numbers BenFenner ( easy way out), I try my best to look at the things that are wrong at a given pound of boost and work from there. 20 PSI at 555 WHP is the cross over point when it comes to air in and air out with what we have
My main goal is making the system more efficient not going up on the boost.