White 'rine project

[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

[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)

[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?

[RABBIT]

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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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]

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

[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...