BQ.05.TD's DET build( 56k die)

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BQ.05.TD
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here is some pics of the nugget

when i got it it had a stock ca in it with rb25 turbo ( teh worst) 2.5" dump going into the stock 2" zorst :roll: microtech,supra intercooler and 10 psi boost

the car run like **** cause it had never been properly tuned as in port mac there is no close dynos,

so 1 first thing i did was get it tuned, we did a run and it made 98kw on 10 psi bwahahahaha wat a nugget, so with a full tune on 15 psi we got 135kw out of it, not to bad i spose

ran around like that for a little while, went threw one box then 3 days after the box blew the turbo died on me, so decided to go big :D

turbo is a garrett gt2876r .64 rear housing rated a 480hp

new 2540 and old t03

its sitting on a custom equal length 3mm thick steam pipe manifold, with full 3'' system from turbo back

this is from underneath the car looking at the manifold



this is wat it looked like once the turbo was fitted



haha this is the 2876 and a stock t02 turbo of my old et



fullboost at 1500rpm FTMFWYO

so i drove around with the new turbo on and 3'' zorst for a while untuned and a dyno come was on so chucked it on and made 177hp on 12 psi and leaning out,



so after that i put it on the dyno and put some fuel into itso it wasnt leaning out and put 15 psi threw it and made 160kw, wasnt to bad at all, turbo comes on nice and strong,

but it was time to ditch the old **** cooler st up and go a decent size and style of cooler



580x180x65 2.5" outlets, picked it up for $95 from ebay, wat a score

i mounted the cooler in a V style as to get a thermo fan on the radiator as the one before it was in front of the cooler and heating things up



this is the old ghay set up



these are pics from when the pipes were getting made, all alloy 2.5" pipes with hidden sard R2D2 BOV under headlight



this is wat we got out of it with a full tune on 16 psi 174kw



some pics from a freaky friday nite



^^^ that pic is hard, looks like a 4wd launch lol



the turbosmart duel stage i have cant control it any more, so eboost is coming very soon along with some spitfire coil packs, as going over 17 psi was blowing out spark, will be geting colder plugs to morro as well

but im more then happy with how it turned out,

since that tune i get spit fire coil packs fitted and they are going good with a set of 7 heat range plugs

other mods it has

suspension and brakes:every rubber bush that can be replaced with noltech or nolathane bushes was, lowered with lovel low springs with some sort of pedders strutstock brakes with bendix advance B pads ( have gtir calipers to get fitted)

engines13 ca18detgt2876r3" turbo back zorstgtr 444cc injectorswalbro 500hp fuel pumpmicrotech mtx8 re programed for lt8 lap top tuning ( one of the last mtech ever did)580x180x65 cooler with alloy pipingsard r2d2 bov

this is wat is getting done to the car as we speak. full rebuild, blown the head gasket and kinda got out of controll

got me manifold and dump pipe back from procoat and i can not recomend this guy enough, the job is 2nd to none and can talk for ever about any thing :lol:



her is some pics of the painted tappet coverslooks damn sex if you ask me



5 weeks in the waiting but there finally here. with custom compression ratio along with a light weight pully kitone of the things i'm am doing is modifying the intake manifold. its a 3 piece manifold. the 2 runner spacers had the nissan ECCS that had little butterflies in 4 of the 8 runners to promote velocity and giving greater low end torque. but it also chokes the system. so i have removed and the butterflies and rods, and while doing this i found that the 2nd half of the runners were restricting the flow because the casting was **** house. so i attacked it with a dremal and hopefully it flow just that little bit better now

the casting protruded about 1.2mm each side on the runner and i also sharpened up the divider in the middle as well as it was pretty flat. there not quite finished just yet but wont be long off

so i got rid of it this is wat the turned out like

but when i was trial fitting them to the plenum i found that the factory was very sloppy with matching up the runners, so ill be grinding that out as well to match up

i also got a inline oil filter for the turbo so when its first kicked over there is no **** that goes through the turbo and farkes it.it was a bit of a ***** to make as braided hose dosent bend quite the best, but its all done now and feeds through the manifold runners
Modified by BQ.05.TD at 4:52 AM 7/7/2009


meminto
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Nice build up mate, make sure you bung those holes where you removed the butterflies

I won't talk about the butterflies and the benefits, however did you check on the flowbench to make sure they were really a restriciton? Have you upgraded the valves in the head?

I will be watching this space, good work...
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Dammit! I was going to do my motor in black wrinkle. It looks as great as I thought it would, sucks that you beat me to it though. Back to the idea well.

Looks real good all around, must be a blast to drive.

BQ.05.TD
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yer mate have already had them tiged up

i was up at lismore 2 weeks ago for a wedding. if i new that i would o floved to come around and had a look at your motoryou have a new post on your thread as well

cheers justin

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Fantastic read!

You have done exactly what I did to the intake manifold. I thought I was looking at the same pictures for a minute! It will be great to see what kind of improvement it makes when you slap it on a dyno.


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meminto wrote:Nice build up mate, make sure you bung those holes where you removed the butterflies

I won't talk about the butterflies and the benefits, however did you check on the flowbench to make sure they were really a restriciton? Have you upgraded the valves in the head?

I will be watching this space, good work...

Modified by meminto at 10:30 PM 2/13/2009
yer i know some people say that it gives you low down torque etc but i dont mind abit of lag.

i havnt stuck it on a flow bench as im not made of money and i have other areas of the car that i could spend iti dont thing there will be any diffrence as the head isnt ported. they way i look at it is that its not going to make things worse so i may as well give it a shot and i might just be suprised. im only going for 220-230kw so not a huge figure

yer its a fun car to drive. its great for changing lanes with no warning lol

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BQ.05.TD wrote:yer its a fun car to drive. its great for changing lanes with no warning lol
That's what the wastegate is for!

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haha yep and the screamer will seal the deal

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lol, yeah i should update my profile, i moved back to Brisbane...

but all good

but yeah would be quite fun to drive...

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Even with all the butterflies removed, and the intake manifold ported like that my CA still starts to make boost fairly low, like 2500rpm on the GT28. I have never once gone back and thought "man, I wish I kept those things."

If you haven't plugged up the holes in the lower manifold that the butterfly valve shaft left, I took some pictures of when I did mine, and posted it all on here. Should have the size bolts and everything you need to do it.

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r34 gtr wrote:Even with all the butterflies removed, and the intake manifold ported like that my CA still starts to make boost fairly low, like 2500rpm on the GT28. I have never once gone back and thought "man, I wish I kept those things."

If you haven't plugged up the holes in the lower manifold that the butterfly valve shaft left, I took some pictures of when I did mine, and posted it all on here. Should have the size bolts and everything you need to do it.
thats pritty laggy for a gt28mine is a 2876r not the 71r and i get possative boost at 2100 and full 20psi at 4000-4100 and i had no head work at all and had 150psi ish across all four

with the higher compression and 40tho over size i hope to get 20psi under 4000rpm

with the butterflys i got the holes welded on each end and have just left the ones in the midel as you cant get a tig in there and i dont think i want to fu(k around with grub screws etc

made this the other day as well. wat a expensive little thing this was to make lol

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another up date

so i got every thing back from the powder coaters. happy with the work but not to happy with the colour but it will have to do. the only problem i have now is to get the throttle body done as it has to be fully striped to get coated.every bolt has also been replaced with allen key high tensile bolts so it looks a lot nicer and easier to work onthe 2 barb fittings on the back of the plenum go the either side of the vacuumed block i have made up . cheers to siko for welding all the new fittings on :D

i got the tappet covers powder coated but the texture finish i was after wasn't any were near the same as the guy had so i'm going to get them re done again but with the proper stuff so it looks how i want it

also got my rear exhaust housing back as well. now the hole exhaust side looks farken sik

that is all the updates so far. getting all the s*** stuff now, waterpump,all the heater hoses and powersteering hoses etc. i have to get a new engine mount as the one i had was cracked. but it wont be to much longer now

kthxbi

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Looking great! Thanks for the update.

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Nice one, the powder coating turned out very well..


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yer turned out ok but just not to happy with the colour on the intake manifold. looked more silver as the sample. the tappets have to get done again as im not happy with them.

i still have to work out if i can do the throttle body yet because of the internal seals it would have

thanks guys

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motor is back. and looking farken sexc :D


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Looks hot as hell with the color of the valve covers and the cam gears. What color will you paint the coil pack cover?

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that my friend...is pimp!

wish i had the time and the money and the knowledge....mostly the money and knowledge lol

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so hot want to touch......

BQ.05.TD
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cheers guys

i have spitfire coils so i dont realy want to put the stock cover on. yould like a custom staino one with some vents in itthe stock one looks ok but would love one of those HKS ones :D

the gear box has started shaking in fear hahah

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Matt can make you one just send him a Email of what you want and he can make it up. have a look at my build thread to look at the the one we made up for my car.

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just some small up dates

new harmonic balancer is onnew water pump pully is onoil feed and water feed are made and onand flywheel,clutch and g box goes on today some time.have to sell my arse on the corner to pay for the earls fittings and hoses that goes from the back of the teppet cover to the block breather

any who. pics :D



best thing on the motor :d


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All i have to say is WOW! Awesome build dude. Someday mine will look like that!

You've put a lot of detail into it and it shows. There's a lot of well built CAs on this forum but this is one of the nicest cleanest CAs around. Awesome job.



PS too bad its in a FWD ... and not in my car.

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Great work! Thanks for the updates!

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thanks david. i jsut finished looking at your build. not to bad your self

thanks guys

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Very very nice build there!!!!!

Just one thing, i was looking at your new harmonic balancer and noticed that its a 3 belt balancer which is for a RWD CA and the belts will be out of alignment since the alternator and power steering are on opposite sides. The FWD one is a 2 belt balancer. But please correct me if im wrong.

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yer it is a rwd one. but my set up has bee change to suit it. my powersteering and alternator have been swaped around and the belts line up spot on

cheers mate for the comment

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well its been a huge day today.got the motor in and hooked some s*** upim happy with how the motor looks just wish the bay was black and not red but oohh welli hope to have it running by next weekend and shatas always here are the pics :D

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pics of the beast back on the road. no vids yet but soon



just have to mount battery in boot and make oil/air seperator up and new cooler pipes then the engine bay is donegetting GTiR brakes rebuilt next week along with slotted rotors and braided lines.


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I want to make sweet love to your turbo manifold!


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