~1500 miles on the rebuild and I'm still running stock boost. The other day ^^^, I ran 7.56 0-60 and 17 0-100, and that was with the twin scroll inactive because the banjo bolt was broken (no vacuum leak, I stuck a solid bolt in there). Yesterday, a nasty afterburn blew out my turbo to mani gasket AGAIN, GRRR (meaning that even after tightening the turbo down over the remnants, I cannot boost quite as well as before). Today, I tightened the turbo down and also fixed the twin scroll banjo bolt. Under pretty similar engine temp, weather conditions, and same place as that prior time trial, I ran 6.8 0-60 and 16.1 0-100. Both times had basically identical shift points as well, and while I think my technique improved slightly since the last time, there's no way I overcame less boost to get such better times.

In short:
A tad less boost, especially up high, yet with the twin scroll active, the car is faster. Sweet.

Oh, and today, after fixing my twin scroll I squawked the tires two different times going into second gear from high in first. I was never able to do that before. SWEET.

WOOOOOOO!

Installed my MBC today and ran a few tests. I'm not boosting quite right (probably due to the blown turbo-mani gasket), but I managed to maintain 10psi for a while out of third and fourth (didn't bother with fifth today), some in second. 15.5s 0-100! And I didn't even have a very good launch. I should hit and maintain boost much better when I replace the gasket, which should happen Friday night.

DYNO!
Relevant list: untuned 13Bt, Rtek 1.7 ECU with 720cc secondaries, 10psi max boost using a cheap manual boost controller and cheap BOV (that may or may not leak some...), open 2.5" dp to a y-pipe splitting to two 2" pipes with a muffler on each, no emissions, manual steering, A/C still installed.

Pulled in 4th gear.

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Oh, and Friday night I pulled off a 15s flat 0-100 muahaha
(14.94s on my stopwatch)

You need to be making about 50 more horsepower.