I could of sworn you are not suppose to wrap ceramic coated things. By insulating the ceramic layer, you make too much heat and it flakes off.
If I were to wrap my pipes again, I would add probably 2 tubes of high temp RTV in strategic area to help hole the wrap in place. Of course you would band the wrap or safety wire it too.
I DD my Z. Gremlins pop up here and there. It gets a little tricking to diagnose and find the problem. Keep that in mind. I boosted my car a little over 39k and now have 56+ k on her.
As for installing the snail then hopping on the dyno for re-tune. Well, you have to get towed there as replacing your injectors and upgrading the pump changes thing up so it won't run right until it's tuned for it.
Start asking around for if you can borrow a car in case you don't finish. Trust me on this one. Crap happens with a regular install with a good kit. Imagine trying to do it with a CSC delete. Something nobody has tried. You might have to come up with something new or undo something to make things work.
Have extra $$ laying around for fixing gremlins. They will pop up.
My car is set up with 6.5-7lbs boost with no EBC. However, I always have my EBC on as it's also my boost gauge. My EBC is capable of 2 settings. I set the first setting at 7.25 lbs and drive that as my DD setting. The EBC/solenoid controls boost a lot better then a spring. It's more linear and smooth. My tune is tuned at 12lbs max. My second setting is set at 11.5lbs which happen to be my "fun" setting. Reason for this is because I want a small buffer in case the EBC got funky. My EBC has a "overboost protection" when I set at 11.7 or something. When the EBC registers 11.7 lbs, it opens up and vents the compressed air and drops the psi back down to spring setting. The EBC wont activate the solenoid until it registers a psi drop so you cant boost again until you let off the gas (if you leave your foot down, it will continue to spin the snail and take probaly forever to drop psi low enough for it to say "ok it safe to work regular again").
Invest in lot of hand tools and a battery impact gun. It saves lots of time and energy when you work on the car. Also have a good light of some sort.
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