White 'rine project

[Snow]

It's a shame I took the vid with my phone. Sound quality was CRAPPPPP!!! You can barely hear the screamer and a lot of the lower tones of the exhaust did not get captured.

I told you'd I'd bring my JVC DVD recorder but nooooo someone went without me!

haha looks good though. I want to go for a ride with the new injectors and safe tune! Hopefully a dry day comes up.

Jon you need to take me for a rip in your car too. God damn.

[terrapinturn]

clean looking engine bay..i like that intake manifold. Must have been a pretty penny. I hope i get my car on the road soon..quite similar build to yours, minus the intake mani and snazzy braided lines. Went with a gt32 though so I'll be the king lag-master...

[supguyex]

*begins sobbing uncontrollably*
stupid weather..
I WANT TO BE OUT IN SHORTS AND FLIPFLOPS!
summer come soon again PLEASE!

[M13]

LOL at your drop hahahaha. post more pics of the car next to it. THAT car looks REAL sexy XD hahaha. but more seriously, good build i look forward to goin for slow safe drives with you this coming summer wooohooo!

Jon, we already know your third wife is quite the looker

It's a bit sketchy driving on wet roads right now with 5% tread in the rear.

[supguyex]

LOL at your drop hahahaha. post more pics of the car next to it. THAT car looks REAL sexy XD hahaha. but more seriously, good build i look forward to goin for slow safe drives with you this coming summer wooohooo!

[M13]

yeah not to bad of a a set up .
whats that blue hose on the exhaust side under the intake/maf pipe?

Blue vacuum hose or coupler?

The vacuum hose goes to my BOV (it's where the stock SMIC was). The blue coupler is the charge pipe after turbo.

[M13]

Just saw a video of this car at the dyno on YouTube. Awesome work dude, car sounds really nice and looks minty! Made ~340hp?

nah 286 RWHP on mustang dyno. Some use 15% or 20% conversion. I took the latter to extend my e-penissssss.







Thanks for the compliments however. It's a shame I took the vid with my phone. Sound quality was CRAPPPPP!!! You can barely hear the screamer and a lot of the lower tones of the exhaust did not get captured.

[RABBIT]

yeah not to bad of a a set up .
whats that blue hose on the exhaust side under the intake/maf pipe?

[ARC240]

Just saw a video of this car at the dyno on YouTube. Awesome work dude, car sounds really nice and looks minty! Made ~340hp?

[M13]

Reassembly:

The head was pretty filthy:


So, off to the machine shop for porting and decking.

Came back within a day:





Now the block has been cleaned, headstuds installed, multi-layer steel headgasket in place.


Head in place.


Pretty smooth after that...




Exhaust manifold finished, did some die-grinding myself.




Both intake and exhaust manifolds mocked up for test fitment.





A few days later...







Car also got some dropping action too.





A few months of careful driving (with untuned ECU)

[M13]

Rough summary:

The build started on July 20th, and everything was wrapped up by August 31st.

All disassembly, clean up and assembly was done by me (some help from Kealog). Fabrication was done by a welder through personal contact, machining done by Lordco machineshop in Maple Ridge, some fabrication done by me, exhaust and some intake pieces fab'd by Racing Greed.

I worked on the car whenever I had chance to work on it after work. Build could have been finished quicker if some key parts arrived earlier, but that gave me more time to save up coins and finish.

Car was out and rolling by September 2nd, but on a rough tune and lacking 550cc injectors (on 257cc stock injectors) due to lack of fund for the build. I saved up again then just finished tuning it @ RG thx to Ztune Motorsports on November 19th.



So this is how the engine looked as of July 20th:


Disassembly of intake manifold:






Turbo's turn:




Ready to take the cams out:


Head is removed:


OEM Headgasket out


GT3071R VS stock turbo

[Turboed08]

looks good man, clean. keep it up
NIck

[M13]

So I generated a parts list for the build.

ARP headstuds
ARP exhaust studs (custom order)
Tomei MLS 1.2mm Headgasket
Cometic MLS exhaust gasket
Garrett GT3071R
TiAL External Wastegate 38mm
Q45 90mm MAF
Custom front facing intake manifold with velocity stacks
90mm Throttle Body
Turbosmart Megasonic BOV
Godspeed 3" Radiator
Top mount exhaust manifold, custom T28, SS403
Deatschwerks 550cc Injectors, high impedence
Nistune, real time adjustable ECU
NGK Iridium plugs
Yellowjackets coil packs
Battery relocation (to allow front face manifold fitment)


some pix:

[M13]

What I had in mind before taking the plunge

Goal:

~ 400HP @ crank, and 350RWHP

More response than stock, minimalize turbo lag and still have some fuel efficiency.

Make it reliable, no need for balls to the wall set up/tune.

Budget

Not enough for a completely forged internal.
Do things right the first time and spend money where it counts

Plans

-Acquire most parts, list out a parts-list with a budget list
-Check compression of engine before build
-Disassemble engine
-Replace coolant hoses
-port head (intake/exhaust)
-Machine head surface
-ARP headstuds for reducing headlift
-Metal MLS Headgasket for better sealing
-Engine Reassembly
-Work on top mount set up for fitment
-Work on intake and charge piping fabrication/fitment
-Fabrication of any custom parts
-Fabrication of exhaust pieces
-Test drive and find any minor flaws and correct or replace
-Fueling upgrade
-Tuning


I was pretty busy in summer with full-time work. I drove my car whenever I could while acquiring parts based on my list. Once most of the parts arrived in late July, I put the car off the road then started disassembling it.

[M13]

That's it??? where are the top mount...etc????

shhhhhhhhhhhh more added on as I load pix keeping the suspense.