I emailed them if they were actually tuning for aftermarket turbos like JMTC and they said their results were promising. 23lbs.

 

And they are pushing for a manual boost controller!

 

28rs on stock internals!!!! do it now!!!

 

Ok, this is awesome. But really? It doesn't seem possible stock innards will hand 23psi. Well for more than 10k miles anyway

 

True, but at least with a gt28 you wouldn't have as much of a torque spike which would allow you to tune for higher numbers. Maybe 250whp/tq with 380cc injectors and be safe within your knock limit and not break a rod. I came from the 1.8t vw crowd. and on the 1.8t if you were running a 50trim you would need to buy rods on anything over like 300wtq because of the torque spike but if you ran a gt30 it would take longer to spool and i know of many people doing 350whp on completely stock internals. So I imagine with the 1.6 being a smaller engine it will take a few hundred rpm longer to spool a disco potato and you could get some conservative numbers out of it with 15psi or so. but who really knows. It's all speculation. I don't recall offhand what the breaking point of the mini cooper rods are.

 

Check out the JMTC turbos or the FrankenTurbo. Don't think the gt28rs is twin scroll or spools well on our cars.

 

i didn't think they spooled well on our cars just for the fact that there was no adequate tuning for the turbo. But i'll definitely check them out

 

Don't want to push the powerband too high up, that would suck to increase lag