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quick ques.... does anyone know how much psi the stock internals will hold? Also, i hooked up my boost guage and i T'ed the it to the vacuum line coming off the intake manifold right next to the brake fluid res. and its peaking at 17 PSI!!! WTF! I have some mods like intake, 3in downpipe, 3in catback, but why is it reading so high on the stock turbo! Any ideas.

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hmmmmm.....no body knows huh.

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Stock internals will start to break apart at like 450bhp. I say 400 is safe but it all depends how you have taken care of the car over the years.

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you can take 22PSI off of a 16G and supporting mods(I.E. fuel tune and bolt ons) and you will make like ~300WHP

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From Reading I've noticed that If i was to slap on a FMIC onto my stock turbo i'd loose power? Why's that? i thought it'd add colder, denser air = more power. how would a bigger intercooler hurt performance?

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from what i've gathered, if you are running a small/stock turbo that isn't running much boost, all the extra piping actually kills the boost before it reaches your intake... unless you are running 10+ lbs of boost a FMIC isn't worth it. (correct me if this is off... i'm still learning damn it lol)

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Ya, but don't the stock turbos boost around 12? Plus if you have a stock turbo you can boost the T25 efficently to around 15psi. so there it'd make sense right?

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300bhp from 22psi? Sorry thats wrong. I got 297 from 16psi and a good tune. You can get much more than 300 out of 22psi i know it.