Wastegate Help.

[boosted3]

Hey guys. its been a while. i have been without a buick for about 5 years now and am finally getting ready to pick one up. Things have changed a lot in this little bit of time. I am already shopping for my go fast goodies and was in process of ordering a downpipe and saw that there are a lot more options for external wastegate pipes now. I ran a THDP on my old car and was going to go that direction again but it seems the more i read, external is the way to go. I am starting out with a stock car and once i get the spring cleaning done on it, i want to start building a recipe car. Probably an 11 sec. but i am trying to look ahead and buy parts that will work for me now as well as in the future when i upgrade to a bigger turbo and FMIC. This will be a purely street driven car mainly because the nearest drag strip to me is about 3 hours away but i do plan on taking it on strip trips once i feel its getting into the 11's. any help you could give me on making this decision would be greatly appreciated. And although this is not in the right forum, i would like some help on a scantool as well. I have used the scanmaster in the past and love it but i see a lot of talk about the powerlogger and how you can hook it up inline with the scanmaster which i did not know. so any help there would also be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[charlief1]

The waste gate question is in the right place but you might want to post the rest of it in the general section. You've got a lot of catching up to do for sure. First thing is decide how you want to do it though. I'm trying to build a carb/turbo and I've already decided to go external myself. The reason is because of adjustability and control of boost. A controller will be used as well to make sure it doesn't over boost and die a nasty death. Some of the other guys will chime in in the morning no doubt, so post the rest of this in the general section.