Yesterday, a year to the day after I decided to do this, the car went on the dyno. Fresh plugs went in, spent some time running in the engine at various loads then changed the oil and did some pulls. First run at half throttle saw 22psi at 4000rpm and climbing. Freaked out a bit and removed the actuator all together which limited it to 8psi, ran it like that for a bit then swapped in a 12psi actuator. That's what's in it at the moment, making good power and really enjoying how the car drives - it's rapid. The turbo is pretty well mannered with the auto, spools well when you want power but at low throttle it's not even there. Also ridiculously loud on spool up and dose! We set the rev limit at 6200 for the sake of the auto but it really wants to rev out even with the K cam 6 degrees advanced - torque is peaking near redline.
From here on I have a list of little things to fix up, I'll change the oil again to the last 5 litres of running in oil and drive a few thousand Kms. Then it will be time for synthetic oil, and a couple more hours on the dyno upping the boost a bit to the mid 20s.
Dyno operator was great - he's a mate of a mate of mine and did an awesome job with the tune, had spare parts and stuck at it, doing our last runs at 11:30pm.
Thanks for reading - I'll put up some videos at some stage, and update the thread in a month or two when the final dyno is done.
