I think you're reading it right, to bad it's incredibly wrong, it's not about PSI it's about PSI at a said CFM, the more CFM at a lower PSI the better, at least that's what I've come to learn everyone can make huge PSI, I used to hit 48 on the stock turbo, sure my turbo now is capable of more, but it runs way better at lower PSI and achieves way more power at the lower PSI than the stock turbo did or even when I had the 62/65/12
I am sorry to keep bringing up the ideal gas law but this post is hilarious to me. He says how the guy is incredibly wrong and then goes on to prove him right, and he didn't even know it.
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pv=nrt
n=pv/rt
once the engine is made and put together V will not change. R is a constant and will not change. so pounds of air (airflow) will only be affected by pressure and temperature and this guy found out the same to be true.
How hot is a stock turbo at 48 psig at the elevations in MT? I am guessing crazy hot.
conditions:
4valve engine guess 85% VE
3200 rpm peak power
4000" elevation
intercooler efficiency 65%
air temp 65*
pressure ratio at said conditions 4.8
Now your engine at these conditions with a turbo in its map at 70% efficiency will accept 1060 cfm of ambient air. It will have been compressed to fit into the 282 cfm you have available but that is what you are asking you turbo to flow.
Who here thinks a stock turbo can flow any where near 1060 cfm? that is equivilant to 80lbs per minute at sea level, so you need a turbo that has a map that can move 80 lbs a min at a 4.8 PR, the stock one will not do.
The only option your little turbo had was to super heat the air as to expand it to meet the cfm requirements. obviously when you got a turbo capable of meeting the demands of the engine the temps went way down, but so did your boost( your choice in lower boost), here is where the equation comes back into play.
n=pv/rt
since T is under the fraction sign it is inversly related to lbs of air moved. as T goes down N goes up, inverse. As long a T falls faster than P you will have more air in and more power.
SO his boost goes down a little maybe 10 psig and his turbo discharge temp falls a few hundred degrees and whalla he makes more power with less boost, however the incredibly wrong guy turned out to be right because he said more boost OR less temp.
If your current turbo is capable of 80 lbs per minute at a PR of 4.8 you may as well turn up your boost and enjoy the increase you will see in power( so long as your drive pressure is in check), look at your map and decide.