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Well my S2 ABY EM is now cracked. I do not want to buy neither a S2 nor a RS2 cast manifold. I have a EM on my drawing board. I have some things I need help clearing out:
General disposition of "stuff"
I hate open air kits. I do not want one. No increase in power, more expensive filters and the MAF is even more unprotected. This gives me quite a dilemma. I then basically need to make a EM with stock turbo position. Possible? Well... Downside is I'll probably won't get it any better than a RS2 - but then again, I just need it to be AS good as the RS2.
But then I started to think. Building a EM that has RS2's performance is fine but I could do it better. But how do I place the LMM and airfilter? I do not have the dough to re-map it so it has to go on the atmospheric side. Where do I place it? Where do I fit the filter? I can't find the room. It also means I have to resort to a open-air-kit-ish filter but still I don't see where to fit it. Thing is - I don't want to hack up the car and I don't want a ugly solution.
I'll also need a new downpipe and a new cat. I my case this means I need a new turbo back system as the system I have on now basically is....not good at all.
I knew when I bought the car that it needed a cat back. So I started thinking dp+cat as well. So mainly that's not the issue. If I could just figure out how to solve the airfilter LMM issue and also have a good clean looking hose set up to and from turbo - well, then I'd just go ahead and do it.
General disposition of "stuff"
I hate open air kits. I do not want one. No increase in power, more expensive filters and the MAF is even more unprotected. This gives me quite a dilemma. I then basically need to make a EM with stock turbo position. Possible? Well... Downside is I'll probably won't get it any better than a RS2 - but then again, I just need it to be AS good as the RS2.
But then I started to think. Building a EM that has RS2's performance is fine but I could do it better. But how do I place the LMM and airfilter? I do not have the dough to re-map it so it has to go on the atmospheric side. Where do I place it? Where do I fit the filter? I can't find the room. It also means I have to resort to a open-air-kit-ish filter but still I don't see where to fit it. Thing is - I don't want to hack up the car and I don't want a ugly solution.
I'll also need a new downpipe and a new cat. I my case this means I need a new turbo back system as the system I have on now basically is....not good at all.
I knew when I bought the car that it needed a cat back. So I started thinking dp+cat as well. So mainly that's not the issue. If I could just figure out how to solve the airfilter LMM issue and also have a good clean looking hose set up to and from turbo - well, then I'd just go ahead and do it.
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