The official turbo build thread.

[PiercedE30]

Nice dude. Are you going to oring the bores or pyramid ring them? I would be a little worried about the thin cylinder spacing.

[e30325ic]

Starting to take shape.

[So Live]

So I know why Jon Volk charges like $250 for a 6-1 turbo merge collector.







It actually came together pretty well once i figured it out and got my little jig working well.

And yes I cut all the pipes on the chop saw. Surprising how well it all fits..

[So Live]

I hope you have your tuning solved before you toss it all those new parts... Looks like it'll be fun.

Lol yeah thats a pre-req for this install :)

Im gonna throw the stock gasket from the top end kit and the arp studs in my motor now so i can drive it enough to learn how to tune and get MS all sorted out.

If i cant get it to work, ill buy a sealed standalone ems or something hahaha

[e30turboboy]

nice cant wait to see more

[Farbin Kaiber]

I hope you have your tuning solved before you toss it all those new parts... Looks like it'll be fun.

[Nj85'325]

Pfff Gehy!

:pimp:Pimpin ain't easy. Pack is on its way for me next week too.

[So Live]

K guys, some good news and some bad news.

Bad news is the head gasket is shot more than likely due to the lack of tuning + the BEGI FMU. I had it coming to me so its whatever.

Good news:
MS is coming along but slowly. I can consistently get the car to idle but only at about 85kpa. Spark on cylinder # 2 is very week and spark on #3 is very inconsistent. Why i have no idea. Its not the out put on the board because 2 is batched with 5 and 3 is with 4 and the other one in the pair is fine. I dont think its the coils because i switch the coils and it doesnt move with em. I rebuilt my adapter harness much cleaner and added new coildrivers and its the same.

I bought:
newsweeden performance Cylinder head flange
15 schedule 10 90's
3 feet of sch10 pipe
t3 flange and 2 wastegate flanges.

Time to make a manifold.

Also purchased:
s50 crank
new arp head studs
upper/lower engine gasket kit
main and rod bearing kits
timing chains
oil pump chain
freeze plugs
pilot bearing
and a few bolts.

Need to pick up
the block ill be building
0.070" MLS gasket
Wiseco 8.8:1 pistons
Eagle rods
arp main studs
oil pump (?)

And then get the machine work done on the block. Making it 86mm bore for s50 spec pistons.

Should be interesting...

[So Live]

Lol i saw that in Dans thread so no worries.

Thanks!

[PiercedE30]

I meant to post this up earlier. Here is some inspiration for ya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf78Q0chcUg

[So Live]

So, i got my Magnaflow mid muffler all installed pretty nicely. I got it done yesterday afternoon and was kinda rushing cause i wanted to go to a party. Needless to say it was about 1 inch too low. It scraped eveywhere lol. So today i cut up the rear half my exhaust and cleaned it up quite a bit. I got rid of a few choppy "bends" and moved the v-band clamp towards the rear of the car so now it wont hit on the heat shield.

It sounds amazing, its exactly what i wanted with my exhaust system. Its a clean sounding, deep tone. Its nice and quiet when you want it to be but it gets lively pretty quickly and now you can hear the engine!!! The turbo whine is awesome.

Im excited.

And real MIG welding doesnt like dirty parts at all haha. I had a head time cleaning the used piping. All the stuff that was clean and where the joint was tight came out pretty good. Its a totally different animal than gasless but its very cool.

[So Live]

Thanks bro!! Yeah its getting there slowly but surely. My oil consumption / leakage has gone down considerably with a little RTV on the front timing cover and replacing summit oil fittings with aeroquip and throwing in an inline oil restrictor.

I just bought a bottle of trimix for my welder. Now its legit MIG welding. Its soooooo much nicer on the stainless stuff. Im really excited.

Tomoro is hacking up my exhaust to put another muffler, some more v-band flanges and some real mandrel bends instead of the sectioned together bends :)

Summit actually had a great deal on piping. 3" 16 gauge 304SS mandrel 180* for $22 or so. Cant argue with that... So i bought two 180's and a 14inch 5x8 can stainless magnaflow and the bottle and im good to go.

Im excited!!

[KangamangusDriver]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good to hear it is coming along well!!!!!!!!!!!

[So Live]

Lol. Come help me get my car running on MS and ill turn it up. Im not afraid of the motor, Im more afraid of detonation because the lack of tune killing it

[e30polak]

Well see what happens now that i dont have to shift every half a second and i can go faster than 125mph. 3.73 + zf box = bad newzzzzz

335's supposedly run about a 13.3-13.5 depending on what you read...

Still not bad for my lowely m50 that made 170 or so whp a few months ago. :)

WTF???? Bump up that boost already man, that motor can handle it! :D

I wish I would've gone M50 NV turbo like you, but I would go for 400whp with that setup. :up:

STIs from a roll aren't a problem for me. My buddy is on stock turbo w/ turbo back exhaust, injectors, intakem, and a tune and I walk him by a car from 2nd and 3rd rolls. Once he gets a bigger turbo that wont choke like shit at 6k, he'll beat me.