cisco
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Well here we go again, I've pulled the car apart again.
I wasn't happy with a few things:
I'm going to design the positioning of the turbo and all the pipework myself this time. I was frustrated being let down a bit by other people last time, if its not their car, they don't care as much about it, and a hack job will do.
So I'm pretty keen and excited to replace a few things now that the car is apart, and get it back together ASAP all fixed up. Its not really a big deal because I have the rock solid engine and gearbox all sorted now, this will just be something that I can work on from home and source particular parts to my exact specs and dimensions as I need them. Will also save some money too. Going to do all the intercooler piping myself just with pieces of alloy pipe and some smooth blue 30 and 60degree silicon bends as required.
Going to do a lot of research on turbochargers and select something different and interesting to try. Absolutely no idea yet. Perhaps a GT25, but also perhaps an IHI out of a subaru, or perhaps a smaller GT20 which might spool up extremely quickly. No idea yet, but I'd probably be thinking GT25 type setup.
Now this evening, I pulled the turbo, manifold, intercooler and dump pipe all out of the car. Some good news. The current T25 turbo now has excessive shaft play. So very happy I decided to do all this. It was clearly beyond its limit when running 17-19psi at times recently. Looks to have taken its toll. Great excuse for a new turbo. Let's get something durable this time.
Going to ensure things have a much faster turn around this time, because I'm doing everything myself and just outsourcing some things like the manifold etc.
Bring it on! A revised blue monster coming soon..
I wasn't happy with a few things:
- Stupid pipe from turbo to air filter with 2 bends in it. Don't need this weight and extra restriction of airflow.
- Air filter positioned in a stupid position.
- Manifold design not ideal.
- Double dump colliding with radiator meaning I need stupid customised narrowed radiators, which don't cool as efficiently and are also weaker due to reduced side wall/frame bit. This really cracked me, so I am going to buy a beefy Datrats radiator and the turbo positioning can work around that. The radiator is a given. On a car with lots of power, you need good cooling without compromise.
- Too much pipework out of the turbo's exit to bend around to the intercooler. Don't need those 3 bends at all.
- Want to try a different design intercooler. Taller, more flow channels, but narrower, and smoother end tanks.
- Wastegate actuator a bit dodgy/ugly looking - previous owner's hack job with ugly welding.
- Wouldn't mind trying something apart from the T25 I've always used
I'm going to design the positioning of the turbo and all the pipework myself this time. I was frustrated being let down a bit by other people last time, if its not their car, they don't care as much about it, and a hack job will do.
So I'm pretty keen and excited to replace a few things now that the car is apart, and get it back together ASAP all fixed up. Its not really a big deal because I have the rock solid engine and gearbox all sorted now, this will just be something that I can work on from home and source particular parts to my exact specs and dimensions as I need them. Will also save some money too. Going to do all the intercooler piping myself just with pieces of alloy pipe and some smooth blue 30 and 60degree silicon bends as required.
Going to do a lot of research on turbochargers and select something different and interesting to try. Absolutely no idea yet. Perhaps a GT25, but also perhaps an IHI out of a subaru, or perhaps a smaller GT20 which might spool up extremely quickly. No idea yet, but I'd probably be thinking GT25 type setup.
Now this evening, I pulled the turbo, manifold, intercooler and dump pipe all out of the car. Some good news. The current T25 turbo now has excessive shaft play. So very happy I decided to do all this. It was clearly beyond its limit when running 17-19psi at times recently. Looks to have taken its toll. Great excuse for a new turbo. Let's get something durable this time.
Going to ensure things have a much faster turn around this time, because I'm doing everything myself and just outsourcing some things like the manifold etc.
Bring it on! A revised blue monster coming soon..
