A little recap of the past six months with the car so far, some of this has already been mentioned or videos already posted.
Have done about five track days and an autocross now with the car and I'm still getting use to the car. Here's the breakdown of the events.
April, 2016 - Speedventures event at Spring Mountain -- Turbo failure. Turbo feed line gets debris, blocks port, bearing dies a tragic death. Turbo replaced with brand new unit.
Synapse wastegate vacuum line also falls apart due to the excessive heat at the barb fitting. There's no way to change the fitting to a proper AN or teflon line, because bad design. Replace lines with silicon vacuum lines
May, 2016 - PCA event at Spring Mountain -- Synapse wastegate failure, again. The vacuum line falls apart, even after using silicon lines and tons of heat wrap. Gets internally cooked. Replace lines and reroute.
Video of the event
June, 2016 - NASA TT event at Miller in Utah -- Synapse wastegate total failure. Wastegate top hat comes partially unbolted and doesn't regulate boost. TT3 cars are running away from me in the straight, despite the car being a TT1 car. Vacuum line also dies another tragic death. Replaced wastegate and lines, again.
Video of the event
Drove the car around on the street then pulled the intercooler to check the WG temp... 420F / 215C. No wonder why the vac lines keep failing.
September, 2016 - PCA event at Spring Mountain -- Synapse wastegate failure again. Vac lines fail. But, least I get spring pressure. 8psi, instead of the 10-12psi it's tuned on. Pull wastegate and toss it into the trash. Replace it with a JGS 50mm wastegate, since it has the same flange sizes as the Synapse. No welding changes! Also, the JGS has proper fittings, so I change the fittings to AN3 with telfon lines. Reroute the lines again.
Video of the event
September, 2016 - Autocross with LVRSCCA -- Working as expected! But, it's not a good test, since temps don't get as high. Even took 2nd RAW time out of 120 some odd cars.
Video of the event
October, 2016 - VTEC Club at Streets -- Everything runs as expected! I haven't gotten retuned with the new wastegate, so was only making 9psi, but no WG issues whatsoever!
Video of the event
And a random video of the car on the street, get an idea of how it sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClWRiWJMeT0
Going to the tuner tomorrow for a retune with the new gate and get a tune on a mixture of 91/100, to get that 450whp I wanted initially, then back it back down to something reasonable.
Then, November is a PCA event at INDE near Tucson, AZ -- then Musselman the following day. So, if any AZ owners want to meet up?