I got around to making a 3rd gear pull up to 6500 rpm today on the stock tune.  It was almost entirely uphill so as far as the time aspect is concerned the results are not valid.  I was more interested in recording how the stock tune performs and a couple of other measurements which are shown below.

The pressure drop through the stock intercoolers continues to increase as rpm increases, but with the stock tune only requesting between 8-9 psi the k03’s have no trouble supplying the requested boost.

I continue to be impressed by how well the stock intercoolers work with the k03’s and stock tuning.  This pseudo-FATS pull was made after warming the car up in stop and go traffic, making a stop to pickup some tires, and then almost immediately after coming out of a parking lot I was turning onto the onramp and going wot. That’s the type of scenario that can show IAT’s going through the roof.

As can been seen from the chart comparing the compressor outlet temperature to that at the intake air temperature sensor, the stock IC’s really did a good job even with a pull out to 6500 rpm.

I am interested in recording the pressure of the exhaust gasses entering the turbocharger’s turbine which should be nearly the same as the turbine inlet pressure (TIP).  To do this without altering the exhaust manifold necessitated piecing together an adapter to which I could attach a pressure sensor.  With some helpful suggestions from Jonathon C. I pieced together this adapter.  I also acquired a 4 Bar absolute pressure sensor from Auber instruments to feed pressure readings into the Innovate LMA-3 for post drive analysis.

Now that I have all of the equipment on hand I need to get it installed, wired up, and calibrated so that I can see how much pressure is building up before the K03 turbine inlet.