I think the SR16 will perform better at mid-range. Def be interesting to see how they compare with this turbo. I am doing the dyno test tomorrow. Remember, this dyno reads a bit lower than dynojet. I only made 421whp on this dyno last year, but dynojet said 478whp. Thats about a 50whp difference.
If I can hit 421whp this year on under 20psi then I will be ecstatic. 20psi should be safe on 100 octane. If not, I melt the engine again and build another
It seems to hit boost around 5k-5.5k. After 6K it is retarded. Tires just spin when the VVL hits. The cams are so large, that partial throttle kicking the intake at 3500rpm caused it to bog down the engine. Full throttle it kicks good, but part throttle you hit the VVL and you feel it kill power. So I pushed the cams kicking upward to around 6k. It seems to transition here the best under half-throttle. But when it hits, and it hits hard, the tires light up.
I've been hitting the limiter pretty hard without expecting it. The rev limit is 8800rpm and the engine pulls all the way with seemingly no dropoff in power. It just seems to build and build... like it want to rev more. But I don't think I can push these 20V cams passed 9k safely. Who knows.
The SR16 cams would be safer to push to higher rpm, and the mid-range could help. At 3000-3500rpm there is a flat spot that didn't seem like it was there before. Most likely from the retarded timing. It seriously needs timing to feel good on the bottom-end. Likely a result from the lower compression. I'm betting an extra 4* timing down low, with it backing off at 5k would do wonders for this engine. Bottom end power is still good though, and snapping throttle open at 3k still puts you in your seat. It's just the rest of the powerband that puts it to shame.
It is interesting to see that I have been clipping the rev limiter without watching the tach closely. Mostly because at 8800rpm I never really hit the limiter. I could feel the engine lose power after 8k, and by 8500rpm the motor wanted to shift. So the extra 300-500rpm was kindof a buffer so I could hold it in gear a bit longer if needed. Now, it feels like the engine wants to blow that limiter off the tach.
Would 9500rpm be so bad? jk
I will see what the dyno tells me, my butt dyno only gets you so far. Does it feel like 100whp gain? No. Perhaps 30whp. Hard to say. But the dyno tells all. Let me post this pic of last year's dyno on the highest boost the engine would do...
Hopefully I hold the torque out longer and make more power that way.