[s-cars] RS2 turbo installed - car still runs!

[Tom Mullane]

Folks,

I found myself with some time this weekend, so I seized the opportunity and
cleared the pile of S parts off the workbench.  I installed an RS2 exhaust
manifold and turbo, right side engine mount, Samcos, some 37 lb/hr
injectors, and Mihnea's chipset.  I used the write-up on Jimmy's site a
guide, and found it extremely helpful, especially the wrench mod part.

Prior to this swap, I was running the MTM 1+ chipset.  That chip tended to
be an "all or nothing" program; it gave a massive surge of boost at about
3000 rpm, but ran out of breath over 5000 rpm.  This was fun when
accelerating hard, but could be a bit weird in "normal" driving (I realize
this group may have skewed perspective on what normal driving is).  

The Mihnea chip is much more linear.  Once you realize that the reason you
have no boost is that you forgot to plug in the frequency valve and you fix
this, the car is awesome!  Boost builds just over 3000 rpm, and continues
past 6000 rpm.  Nice. Obviously, the car is much faster.  Much faster.  I
predict poor fuel economy on this tank of gas ;-)  Of course, I'm already
wondering if some additional software fine tuning might be able to dig out a
few more ponies.

Anyway, I need to go bury my wallet again for a while...right after a buy a
few things for the Coupe and replace all the 12mm wrenches that I destroyed.

Tom Mullane
CT
1995.5 S6