fai17 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 As some of you may or may not know that my car has been off the road for god knows how long but as with any serious modding there are ALWAYS hiccups and mishaps and by god i have had my fair share along with SMA01! One blown engine has need to another blown engine and followed by head gaskets issues and by this time most guys would have given up but not me as i'm mad as a mad chinamen Last year i ran the engine with a GT3040 turbo and recorded a best time of 11.08s on crail and with this round of mods i'm looking to be in the 10s. And to any newbies out there that doesn't know me,Hi i'm Fai17 aka Peter. Plus over the last christmas period i've also been treating myself with some other new mods for my car. Oh my brakes to stop the damn thing! So without further ados may i intoduce to you my new built long engine by Pennine Subaru.He is the one of the best subaru engine builders out there and has helped greatly with my engine spec and build up.The spec list is so long that i don't even have time to list them all up!The engine is a Pennine 2.5 Litre Closed Deck Block with oil squirters and steel internals. Head work has also been complete rebuilt by Chy and he has ported and polished the heads along with oversized Cosworth valves and Kelford cams.Alot of time has been spent of the polishing and porting of the heads and it's very labour/time intensive. Next comes the modded inlet manifold and the 70mm throttle body which Chy has put together.Again time has been spent on this side of the build up. Next comes the really good part.As most of you will know by now that the turbo on a subaru engine is mounted on the back of the engine.This was possibly put there by Subaru because of running a top mount intercooler and to keep the pipe short leading to it.But by going this route and exhaust pipe work has been lenghtened by a given length that i do not know of but it does has its draw backs as the turbo is so far away from the gas expelled by the heads.This can only mean more lag when trying to run a overly sized turbo but may be ok on certain applications.I know of a few cars that runs a rotated set up including myself and are happy with the set up. But on this round of mods i'm looking for more and way more than i was first planning to at the start of all modding things. So be checking out some of the top cars around the country i've noticed the way forward is to run the big turbo at the front the engine like on AndyF and ZEN cars.There are also a hand full of other seriously modded cars runing likes this including both Morbs and Gassasti on 22b. So i've approached both Greersport and Meercat with the idea and they were very happy to see this project through. The turbo itself is a Twin Scroll Garrett T04Z and will be running along with twin 38mm Tial external wastegates. Greersport has fabricated the turbo support bracket and has situated it in the most ideal turbo position. This is as far as the project is currently. :madnoel: Hopefully the car will be going to Meercat very soon to have the headers fabricated and i will post the pics as i get them. Enjoy. So what have i learnt from this? Modding is for life and not just christmas! Link to comment
dipsy Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Looking good .Will the fabricated manifold be equal or unequal length for the gas flow to the twin scroll .There can't be much room for a fan on the rad when turbo is in that postion .Not picking fault just questions Peter Link to comment
RA Dunk Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Nice write up Pedro, looking forward to a pax with you round knockers some time! Link to comment
seafar99 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Front bumper exhaust then? Resonator box going where? Link to comment
scooby222 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 wow! thats immense Peter,you must be dying to get it up and running. apart from the engine spec also loving the recaros, and the brakes -o dear i feel my wallet starting to hurt Link to comment
wilky Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Very brave Peter! Good luck and I hope it all goes well. Callum W Link to comment
green_goblin Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Good on you for going all out!!! looks mental Link to comment
murtayamartin Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 looks great peter,i met you at glenshee meet several years ago and as you can tell by my username i should be getting a murtaya with a 2.1 stroker from engine tuner so not as much engine work as you but a lot lighter lol martin Link to comment
braveheart Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Hi Peter, deffo diffrent mate, nice one will look forward to seeing it all finished.. Chris Link to comment
colin_ross Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Very impressive Peter, never seen that done before on a road car. You worked out the radiator and intercooler positions yet? Oh yeah, and if you're looking to have the exhaust exit in front of the front wheels I think you may have mot problems. Might be worth looking into. Link to comment
hi_jac Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Looking good Peter, she will be a monster A year is a long time to be without your Scooby, i feel your pain. Hopefully Meercat can get the work done quickly for you. Link to comment
bobbyc Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Can't wait to see the finished project Peter loks awsome mate Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Looking good .Will the fabricated manifold be equal or unequal length for the gas flow to the twin scroll .There can't be much room for a fan on the rad when turbo is in that postion .Not picking fault just questions Peter Manifold will be fully equal lenght for the twin scroll so no more burble for me As for rad/fan/intercooler combo....it will be custom Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Nice write up Pedro, looking forward to a pax with you round knockers some time! Thanks Duncan. Pax lap is on the cards for you Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Front bumper exhaust then? Resonator box going where? Possibly Box will be between rad and engine Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 wow! thats immense Peter,you must be dying to get it up and running. apart from the engine spec also loving the recaros, and the brakes -o dear i feel my wallet starting to hurt And the piggy bank has been smashed! Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Looks like good fun Cheers Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Very brave Peter!Good luck and I hope it all goes well. Callum W Me too Callum Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 looks great peter,i met you at glenshee meet several years ago and as you can tell by my username i should be getting a murtaya with a 2.1 stroker from engine tuner so not as much engine work as you but a lot lighter lol martin Hello Martin...what did you drive back then as it was so so so long ago? I hope you well with the Engine Tuner build...i've heard really good reports about both Alan and Martyn Link to comment
fai17 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Very impressive Peter, never seen that done before on a road car. You worked out the radiator and intercooler positions yet?Oh yeah, and if you're looking to have the exhaust exit in front of the front wheels I think you may have mot problems. Might be worth looking into. MOT is not a problem Link to comment
~ ~ Cal ~~ Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE !!! I hope your are gonna ditch the Toyo T1-R's as they are gonna have to be stickier to cope with the tooooooooooooooorque that this mutha is gonna be outputting. Time for some R888 rubber or something like that You are truely radio rental oriental mon amigo ! The pax vultures will be queuing at the gate for a ride in the Bamboo Infinity ! Link to comment
drb5 Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Nice one Peter. Good to see someone taking a roadcar, a stage further than usual. Link to comment
scoobysailor Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 I was behind you on the way up to the Wheel today......you're other car isn't exactly slow either Link to comment
johnnyr6 Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Looking good Peter, just don't blow this one up.... Johnny Link to comment
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