Hey all,
Ever since I installed the catless DPs I have noticed some white/blue smoke from the exhaust at times (no surprise). It was never anything very severe, not to mention I expected it with the catless DPs. Usually it was someone in a Focus ST or WRX STI getting a good view of my exhaust after a spirited run that would tell me they noticed a bit of blue smoke coming from the exhaust during the run (I could never actually see it myself).
Recently the smoke got a little worse so I decided to pull the trigger on the stock turbo upgrades. Mike was able to get them out to me super quick, had them the following week after I placed the order.
Being pretty busy myself I had a local mechanic do the install for me. The end cost including the turbos, the extra little pieces like the oil feed gaskets and turbo filters, as well as the install itself equated the cost of just the ATP turbo upgrades by themselves (not even including the core charge). I am mentioning this as I thought the combined cost of the CHRA sections and install all together was very reasonable. Especially for the performance I am already noticing from these.
As for the old turbo sections, they were saturated in oil, I'm sorry I forgot to grab a picture of the old ones when I picked up the car. Take my word, they were grungy and it was no surprise I was losing about a quart of oil per 5k oil change. These new turbo sections have fixed the oil smell and smoke coming from the exhaust from what I can tell.
I am currently running a 93oct tune from AJP with the wastegate mod. Just got some datalogs off to AJP to start dialing in the tune. Once we get a good baseline tune going I'll plug the methanol system back in. For now I can definitely say that these turbos want to make boost, and they seem to want to make it at much lower RPM (not surprised with the upgraded wastegate actuators in there as well).
I'll share updates as AJP starts dialing the tune in.