Well Mike looks your guy will these turbo knocked out in no time.

Some pictures from my install and notes:







Have to cut hardline for water to the front turbo:


The piece we cut off:


Supplied rubber line slipped over factory water line:

Got a late night, after normal business hours text....

Advising both new turbos are installed and car will be ready for pickup tomorrow afternoon sometime.

Woo Hoo!

He said he's got to finish wrapping up a few loose ends, and that he'll then move onto swapping out both the PTU & REAR DIFF fluids.

2nd time this year the fluids will have been changed.

I'm gonna try and stay on a twice p/ year regimen with those fluids.

Once in Spring. Once in the Fall.

Either way, i'm both surprised, and very happy the car will be done so soon.
Especially considering he got a super late start on Monday.

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Do you have a revised tune?

Nope. Won't either for some time.

I have to.....

A. 1st save up money for the hard hot pipes 4DR's group buy selling
B. Install the above
C. Contact LMS & schedule a new dyno appt (which could be, contingent on their availability/scheduling, a few months off yet)

I'll be fine with the tune file I am currently running.

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I would bet the car will limit you to 15 PSI but that should still be plenty of power for you.

Not sure if it will.

I know I was just smacking on 18psi with the stock turbos with my current custom/methanol dyno tune file from LMS.

I see no reason why that wouldn't remain the same.

I discussed it at length both prior to turbo install, and then again today with my mechanic friend & he's pretty confident it'll remain as the tune is set now.

So, I should be all good to go.

Besides 4DR, as you and I have personally discussed, with the onset of Winter quickly approaching here in Chicagoland,  I won't be driving like an @ss (for lack of better terms) anyhow.

New tune, or not.

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My tune with my upgraded stock turbos hit 23psi without flinching, same tune new turbos wouldn't go over 15 psi with the ECU in charge of boost. I don't just throw this stuff out there, I speak from experience. It's a torque limiting thing, unless LMS has maxed out your torque limits (doubtful) the car will do it's best to keep you reigned in.
We'll see when you get the car though. You should hope it does limit you to 15 psi (500HP on my car) or you'll quickly go lean, if your car starts jerking at WOT you'll know you're going lean and be in my world.

You've been yearning for someone to 'be in your world"....

And as such, i've taken the torch you've handed down, and will proudly carry it on for the next lucky recipient to join us in our tuning headaches.

Bwahahahaha.

Hold my hand Daddy 4DR, i'm only a lil bit scared.

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Haha you guys and your 500whp talk. With the new turbo I just bought I'm hoping to hit 320whp and keep it their until internals and the fuel system can be addressed to avoid becoming an ecoboom in my little 2.0l :p

I guess we'll find out if the SHO is tuned differently OEM from the Flex!  The boost limit difference could be a unit-to-unit variation, but I am thinking BPD has the secret black-and-white sauce in the mix too

Good info thus far Mike, very curious how the car will perform with new turbos.

Great information, keep us posted.

Can't wait to see how this turns out.

Can't wait to hear your thoughts once you get them installed sure hope all goes well.  BTW, I haven't been around much, on Sunday afternoon I developed a toothache that was brutal...ended up at the dentist and am now in the midst of having a root canal, apparently I've had an infection for quite sometime and I am on meds for the infection, but got some pain killers too!  Sounds familiar, I really hate month pain, but am glad it's getting resolved.  Also, Dr. thinks that the infection had gotten bad enough that it's affected me more then the mouth, I've been running a low grade fever and feeling like 5 miles of bad road for the past several days, today is the first I've felt half human!