Beat92's "Overkill is underated" build thread

[Beat92240]

Wouldn't know man! Got about 2 miles on it because the rear turbo oil feed line is leaking pretty bad and progressively working itself loser. So im not driving it until I get that fixed. And unfortunately the Friday after it got tuned I left for Germany for work for 2 weeks. I won't get back in the country til this Saturday and I'll try to get her all ready and finished over the next 3 weekends is the goal. I'll take videos when she gets driving.

[Driftnaut]

Any updates?

[Beat92240]

I had to drop the rear turbo to fix the oil feed line to the turbo. Worst possible location! It was not fun in the car. But we got her done, hooked up a new oil pressure gauge, then it was having issues dying when I start drivin it with some load. Talked to Jeff and he said that it was tuned through MAP and TPS, so I'm going to look at the VAC connection to my ECU to see if it may have become lose when moving the ecu around.
That unfortunately is my last update. Still no videos of it driving. Picked up a new daily driver that I had to do some work on over the past couple weekends to get up to par...so haven't had a lot of time. But hopefully I'll be taking it for a test drive this weekend.

[splintercell]

SERIOUSLY BAD a** BUILD! i as well love attention to detail builds. kudos bro... look forward to seeing the final masterpiece.

[Driftnaut]

^^^ I agree it's gonna be amazing ( an it already is! )

[badbob2121]

Good to hear the build is still progressing

[sky_is_the_limit]

Hows this baby coming along?!

[Beat92240]

Funny you should ask today of all days.

I got her together and to actually idle on Sunday. All I had to do mechanically increase the idle point with some throttle cable adjustment and she idles like a champ now.

So last night I took it for the maiden voyage on the road and it's amazing. I'll have videos coming in the next week or two.

I plan on finishing some small stuff this weekend and getting it ready for inspection and an exhaust adjustment on next Thursday.

Next Saturday I have it lined up at my buddies to finish the body panel alignment.

Then we will begin some wrapping. Home stretch here we come! Should be all done within the month except maybe a few small things.

[Beat92240]

Oh yeah I'm also in talks with Ricky about switching to a single big, so anyone interested in my twin setup? Haha.

[Beat92240]

http://s763.photobucket.com/albums/xx28 ... shouse.mp4

Hopefully this video works. Its a short cell phone one...but you'll get the idea.

It's not inspected yet. That answers the question at the beginning of why I'm not driving it out on the road.

[VSJA1725]

Awesome thread to see before i fly to Miami to check out a super clean kouki. Good luck man and i can't wait to see the finished product.

[Beat92240]

Awesome thread to see before i fly to Miami to check out a super clean kouki. Good luck man and i can't wait to see the finished product.

Good luck man! u gonna RB it?

[VSJA1725]

Awesome thread to see before i fly to Miami to check out a super clean kouki. Good luck man and i can't wait to see the finished product.

Good luck man! u gonna RB it?

Thanks! That has always been my dream for an S14. RB26 or nothing. I did the s13 and SR20 and now all i want to experience is the RB in an S14. It'll be a while before i get that started but slow and steady wins the race.

[Beat92240]

I'm bumping this thing up in hopes some of you guys are in the middle of this and looking for an awesome twin setup because I want to sell mine.
Looking to get rid of the HKS intake/Turbos/Manifolds/turbo elbows/Mckinney Downpipe/and all my AN lines and fittings to go with them.
Set up has maybe 10 -20 miles on it and dyno time. Just trying to consolidate over winter and do a single.

[Beat92240]

BOOM! Back from the dead. I was thinking about this build thread over the weekend and realized it has been like a year since I updated it. So here we go. Still not done, but a lot has changed!

1) After my tune date last fall with my twin setup, my drivetrain siezed up on my way around town. Turns out in my rush and excitment to finally drive the car, I forgot to put transmission fluid in it.
2) So I decided to just pull the motor/trans over winter and make changes I'd been wanting to do to clean it up.
3) Took the transmission to the local shop that does my work. Lucked out and found out that it was only the main bearing. A quick and easy 250 bucks later and she was all fixed up and ready to go.
4) I figured "What the hell, its out, lets try to clear out this twin setup and go single too" So I was able to part out the twin setup all over the world: Some to Australia, some to Canada, and some to Ohio. With this extra money I was able to fund my single turbo conversion over winter.
Single turbo conversion consisted of:
Full-Race T4 Twin Scroll EFR Manifold with 2000 Degree Coating
Full-Race Borg Warner EFR 8374 with 2000 Degree Coating
Bosche 044 In Line Fuel Pump
Custom made Vibrant material down pipe
DEI Titanium T4 Turbo Blanked
DEI Titanium with LRT Head Wrap for Downpipe
A whole slew of new fittings, lines, and additional heat dampers

I learned from my twin setup that the exhaust heat is certainly a downer on an RB26 swapped S13 to the point it was burning through my rear turbo oil return line pretty regularly. I didn't want to make the same mistake with the single so I kind of did some overkill on heat regulation. I also wanted to make sure the Downpipe could be removed without dropping the steering rack like I always had to do wit hthe McKinney Downpipe. So All around it was a win as far as I was concerned.

I also gained 60whp at the same boost over the twins with the same exact spool characteristics. The EFR's really are pretty bad a** turbos. Not to mention not needing an external wastegate (or twins for the divided like I have), no external BOV, no external boost controller....I mean it really cleaned up that side of the engine bay as you can clearly see from the pictures:

[Beat92240]

I also attempted to drift the car on Sunday for the first time, and my first attempt at drifting. Needless to say I did terrible because I've driven the car very limited (maybe 4 or 5 times) and I've never tried drifting, but we gave her hell anyways.
We did a bunch of stuff to prep for it,but the biggest was lowering the seats We blazed out the front seat bracket cross members and altered the seat brackets to make them fit on the now flat floor. This was very very easy on the passenger side:

And slightly more difficult on the drivers side due to the exaust hump under the seat, so when you go to make the drivers side flat you find something that looks like this:


I'll post up what we did about this when I get back down to the car. We were in such a rush to get it to the drift even that I didn't get a chance to take a picture of the finished product yet.

[Hijacker]

Did you add a cross brace back to the chassis? That brace ties the rocker sills to the trans tunnel to resist torsional forces that could cause the body to flex under load.

[Beat92240]

Did you add a cross brace back to the chassis? That brace ties the rocker sills to the trans tunnel to resist torsional forces that could cause the body to flex under load.

Not yet, working on getting it caged ASAP which is why I haven't done any other type of bars inside yet.

[Beat92240]

Also forgot about the skid plate we had to make up since I dented the crap out of my oil pan just going down the road one day and it kind of freaked me out so I figured I should probably bust one out real quick before something worse happened:

[Beat92240]

Wow this forum seems like its really died since I was updating it last....Little unfortunate.

But heres what my current project is with it:

For some reason my power steering tensioner bracket is tweaked or something. Giving a really terrible alignment between my pump pulley and the underdrive pulley. We've been messing around with it over the past couple weeks but when I start getting in the high rev's it always launches the belt into orbit.

SO, I still a part from one of my other swaps. I was doing a K20z3 swap into my DC2 Integra and I was planning on doing a mid 90's MR2 Electric Power Steering Pump on that motor. But the RB26 certainly takes priority. So I plan on adapting that pump to this car to end my belt flinging woes. I'll just simply be going to an on/off switch and not using the speed sensitive version because its not a daily by any means and I don't care to waste all that extra time on it.

So stay tuned for that over this weekend.

[Hijacker]

Wow this forum seems like its really died since I was updating it last....Little unfortunate.

We're generally slow over the summer months. Everyone's busy with family, friends, racing, and vacations.

[s14wayzz]

great build so far man i really like your attention for detail. Single turbo setup looks super clean, did you get any numbers with the new setup yet?

[splintercell]

awesome updates!

[Tofubadguy]

Excellent build! Looks like lots of quality work.

Plus 1 on the single turbo too. I'll do that with my S13 project as soon as I can throw that money at it. It was the best decision I made for my GTR though, as it's stock engine, single Precision 35R, injectors and on E85 @ 20psi is making 492-AWHP@7400.

Can't wait to see it all painted and "finished"! As if there is any actual "finish" with our projects.

Do you have a 'project total' budget set, or a tally so far?

Russell