Biggu's engine refresher build thread.
So she is alive and on the rollers now.
I cant believe we got it going after a bunch of issues that were having with it. Turns out that the map sensor i bought a while ago was a 2 bar when it was supposed to be a 3.5 bar. So to fix that we installed a 5 bar so no more issues with that any longer. the next issue was the BOV wasn't blowing off at all which ended up being in conjunction with a really stiff spring and an improperly setup vacuum source. on top of all that the gasket for the bov was pinched causing a leak and the vband wasn't tightened all the way. Next issue was a fuel delivery issue. I put a 100 micron fuel filter in line and it was filtering to much and was causing fuel to not rise as it should have. I ended up removing the fuel filter for the time being and i will replace it with a 10 or 40 micron later. After that I had a wastegate issue, basically creeping 7 psi of boost which is pretty bad but it turns out that I didn't really plumb it the right way and even putting it into conventional waste gate mode it still had creep. Honestly the shop was a major hurry as they are doing a huge dyno day this weekend so instead of screwing around with the wastegate to figure it out we swapped it out to a Tial 44 and now we have no issues with boost creep. Im sure there were more issues but that was about it.
so far on spring only were at 425hp at 11 psi with another 14 psi to go for high boost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgD8NT5tvNI
I cant believe we got it going after a bunch of issues that were having with it. Turns out that the map sensor i bought a while ago was a 2 bar when it was supposed to be a 3.5 bar. So to fix that we installed a 5 bar so no more issues with that any longer. the next issue was the BOV wasn't blowing off at all which ended up being in conjunction with a really stiff spring and an improperly setup vacuum source. on top of all that the gasket for the bov was pinched causing a leak and the vband wasn't tightened all the way. Next issue was a fuel delivery issue. I put a 100 micron fuel filter in line and it was filtering to much and was causing fuel to not rise as it should have. I ended up removing the fuel filter for the time being and i will replace it with a 10 or 40 micron later. After that I had a wastegate issue, basically creeping 7 psi of boost which is pretty bad but it turns out that I didn't really plumb it the right way and even putting it into conventional waste gate mode it still had creep. Honestly the shop was a major hurry as they are doing a huge dyno day this weekend so instead of screwing around with the wastegate to figure it out we swapped it out to a Tial 44 and now we have no issues with boost creep. Im sure there were more issues but that was about it.
so far on spring only were at 425hp at 11 psi with another 14 psi to go for high boost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgD8NT5tvNI
Here you guys go,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYdVGrOcH0
final numbers on low boost were 548 hp and 489 torques. that is at 17 psi and we will be pushing it to 25-28 here in a few weeks or so. the tuner is very busy and Im so glad he was able to get me in and get it taken care of.
PS got to drive the car home and ITS A BLAST!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYdVGrOcH0
final numbers on low boost were 548 hp and 489 torques. that is at 17 psi and we will be pushing it to 25-28 here in a few weeks or so. the tuner is very busy and Im so glad he was able to get me in and get it taken care of.
PS got to drive the car home and ITS A BLAST!!!
So nothing really new with the car, It got stripped out this weekend and will be dropped off tomorrow to the fabricators and getting a full 10 point weld in cage with a X brace.
While I had the center console out I went through and make my gauge setup better than being zip tied on to the dash.
may not be 100% pretty but its functional.
While I had the center console out I went through and make my gauge setup better than being zip tied on to the dash.
may not be 100% pretty but its functional.