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Old 07-06-2007, 05:06 PM
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ok, so rebel inspired me to put a few pics up here for the masses to see my trusty ute and all its mods :-)

heres a copy paste of whats been done :

piecemeal stock long block including :
fe5a camshafts
ground to fit vr6 valve springs
intake retainers/collets on all valves
f2t windage tray cut to fit...
...fe-dohc main bearing braces which have been ground to fit the above
custom winged sump with top plate to prevent slosh in the very most effective way
large oil cooler std on fe5a version
pistons are 10:1 variety

external to the long block are :
custom thin walled equal length mild steel exhaust manifold made with mandrel bends a mig and a couple of laser cut flanges, it incorporates an external 44mm vband wastegate and t3 fitting for ease of downsizing in future if i should so choose, a hand made merge collector filed to perfection on the inside that brings the flow together so well that with the 44mm wastegate wide open a great deal i had 3.5psi by 7k rpm.
one holset he351cw hy35 hy9 turbo from a 2006 dodge ram cummins powered diesel pickup truck modified with custom made matching vband flange for dump pipe, removed wastegate actuator, welded up wastegate hole with a steel plug shaped to the inside of the turbine housing for smoothness of flow welded in place and the bracket for the actuator cut off and ground smooth to just fit the engine bay at all, a modified cummins drain pipe that snakes around the compressor housing and engine mount and back to the sump at the full 22mm OD size. dumping to...
one full straight through, and you know i mean straight, custom 3" exhaust with the biggest coby reso/tube muff at 18" and a cheapish oval muffler dumping just in front of the diff, initially fed by a 4"to 3" fred welded reducer and smoothly merged in wastegate reentry and ...
innovate wideband O2 letting me know that its dead rich.
one chinese 44mm vband wastegate with 15psi spring and welded valve lapped to a perfect seal.
one "bagel" inlet manifold and plenum to smoothly guide the intake gasses to their firey death with short runners smoothed on the inside and tuned for high rpm power and flow, large plenum volume with throttle directed to allow air to enter all cylinders quite evenly
one modified stock fuel rail bored an extra .3mm with blanked stock input and retained fuel pressure dampner and 3/8 inlet fitting and 5/16 outlet to the fpr and...
4 rx7 550cc injectors cleaned by some brakeclean and a heater with new orings and spacers and seals
one chinese adjustable fuel pressure regulator and guage returning to tank along the stock tube offset slightly and passing to...
the stock feed line that used to supply the carbed engine at 5/16
one brand new 3/8 feed line all the way from the fuel system at the rear
one 70mm lexus 1uzfe 4.0l 280ps v8 throttlebody modifed to have no second throttle plate and no air leaks etc and fed by....
one r32 nissan skyline gtr intercooler with 3" inlet and outlet and 3" plumbing with silicone couplers and tbolt clamps and enough flow for more than 500hp mounted fwd of the radiator with short pipes and good airflow over it, cleaned to bare ally by many washings with thinners etc, and with all fins straightened on both front and back to maximise air flow through it
one nissan gtr r32 bov housing and two stock bovs from same car attached in the wrong place immediately after the turbo instead of before the throttle with socks and cable ties for air cleaners blowing straight back up into the air filter which is a....
6" inlet dual cone simota unit (one of the biggest they make) attached by a shortened and lightened and internally sanded pcv feed pipe in 4" ID all the way to the inducer of the turbo
a hard oil line with banjo fitting on the turbo and rotating type on the block, with no restrictor and about 1/4" OD line brazed at the ends
a customised crank pulley with siera cvh 36-1 wheel grafted on and a nice paint job to make timing light mark id easy
a customised f2t flywheel machined down to accept the stock ring gear and go inside the small bellhousing and fitted with a modifed and balanced 1X00 pound pressure plate also machined down to squeeze into that bell with a heavy duty sprung organic LUK clutch disk inside
custom coolant lines in 35mm OD steel tube with mandrel bends and quality hose
bp 2 stage thermostat residing inside f2 flat thermo housing at the back of the head as it should be
53mm thick R33 jap made full alloy race radiator and two american curved blade fans on the front all supported by...
early 90s top mounts from galants, and lowre mounts from same period legacy (same for intercooler)
four short bosch ign leads and fours stock fe3 coils and four stock fe3 ignitors controlled by...
one modified ms2 v3 unit with provision for leds on all main outputs and COP capability with external switch for bootloading code
semi decent wiring setup including dedicated feed to ms from battery, shields on all inputs, dedicated feed to battery from alternator, extra heavy grounds (50mmsq) to block from battery, and same to starter and all other feeds from battery, vref line to alternator from battery itself, heavy ground to ms from head, dirty power feed line from main car system for such things as 02 heater feed etc.
at the rear of the vehicle
two bosch fuel pumps, one circa 400hp 910 sucking fuel from tank through a big marine filter/water seperator, and feeding a 2l s/s surge tank with 3/8 line, returning excess to the main tank through a 1/4 line to create some residual pressure, and one mother of all bosch pumps 044 sucking from that surge tank and pushing upto 800hp of fuel fwd through the 3/8 line mentioned earlier.
battery relocated to behind the diff for weight issues and very short thick wires straight to those pumps from it. all wires from batt either fused or broken for safety and convenience.

will add some pics if there is any interest :-)

cheers,

fred.
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Old 07-06-2007, 05:10 PM
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More pictures, less words.
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Pictures please, sounds neat.
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my customised megasquirt with 4cyl coil on plug and a few other little tricks
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the back of it with the fuel/batt box clearly visible behind the hinged number plate
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front view nearly ready to go with my mate mops standing working on something
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four stock fe3 coils, four stock fe3 ignitors, chinese fpr, modified fuel rail, 550cc rx7 injectors (maxxed out for approx 385bench crank hp)
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rivetted intercooler plumbing with a pair of nissan skyline gtr blow off valves in a stock housing with 50mm inlet and twin 38mm outlets
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intake side of the engine bay
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custom plenum with 1uzfe 70mm throttle body from the lexus/toyota 4l 280hp v8
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one of the biggest simota air filters you can get with 6" to 4" toilet plumbing to the turbo
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the inside of that plenum showing the totally smooth path that the air has to flow through to get into the engine
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where 3" end of downpipe meets 3" exhaust
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exhaust side from above with manifold, turbo, wastegate, downpipe and coolant plumbing all visible
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and from its prettiest angle
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hand crafted 4" to 3" downpipe with hand turned on lathe vband flange for turbo and flexi for the wastegate
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the nearly perfectly straight 3" exhaust with two straight through mufflers, also showing the 130 s/s m8 csk screws holding down the 17mm plywood deck
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where the battery lives with 4 fused 5ag outlets and one 100ampere circuit breaker with 50mmsq cable going to block and starter and 8ga going to ms and another to alternator and a speperate vref to alternator and a sperate fuse for lighting and the last one for the pumps. also 2 8ga local grounds to the ally panels.
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the rear ally panel from inside showing the two relays for the two fuel pumps, the brake,tail,reverse light relays, and the ground lift all rear lights off the cops are coming relay
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044 910 raycar and surge tank. all happy to supply 400+hp of fuel, and peak of about 700-800 through the 3/8 line straight from the 044 to the rail.
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ex mani on the Persian rug in the lounge just after completion.
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just after painting
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holset just fits, mounted with begginings of beautiful hand made merger above.
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36-1 crank trigger with bracket and sensor
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winged lidded sump for zero oil surge under extreme driving (i'm crazy incase you are wondering and pull a G daily everywhere)
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f2t flywheel with fe smaller ring gear and ligtened and smoothed and shrunk to fit the 240mm clutch in the small 225mm bell housing.
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about to go in. you can see the coolant plumbing. the periscope one got changed twice after that. type 3/r box visible in background
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2 pack laquer paint job on diff housing looking sweet on a warm summers day.
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that will have to do for now,

well, except the vids, if you wanna see em. nothing too flash, just a few donuts and a bit of windy road...

let me know.

fred.
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very neat!!!
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This picture makes my scalp itch.
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great fab work fred and a great project so far! im looking forward to see some dyno plots and track runs
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I love that intake. I love it all, but yeah, that intake is cool. What's it made of?
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That is awesome.

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