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Old 01-02-2010, 11:06 AM   #6 (permalink)
Mifunego
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The Taco - '99 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner
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Originally Posted by Mustang Dave View Post
Watch your boost gauge, and keep it as low as possible.
No boost gauge in the 'speed3. But as some famous car enthsuiast once said, "Life begins at 3000 rpms." Generally that's where turbo boost starts. But as far as spool-up goes, you only need to listen in this car. Once I ditched that ridiculously restrictive factory airbox, I can hear all that mechanically musical turbo activity pretty easily. There isn't too much noise that gets muffled through an air intake like this:
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