Diy Turbo VR6

Hello All,most of you will know me of the CF,ive built a few VRT's and i just love them to bits so desided to build another one,but the plan was to keep costs down and build most of the bits myself,so i did

Ive still have lots i want to do and complete,but ive done ok so far as ive only had the car for around 9 months

Quick run down.

Custom DIY SR inlet manifold.
Custom DIY Exhaust manifold using stock manifolds.
Custom DIY 3" exhaust downpipe and system still to finish.
Custom DIY Alloy fuel rail.
Cheap T70 turbo with 1.02 hot side(when money allows-Garrett GT35R with .82 hot side)
Brand new 2.8 oem Bottom end.
Rebuilt engine using later parts,replaced everything with new.
Spacer plate reducing the CR to 8.5.1
SP 263 cams
Lightened flywheel.
Braille Battery.
Mocal cooler 16row.
Charge Cooler.
ARP Hardware
VF mounts.
Spal 12" fan.
70 deg stat
Alloy crack pipe.
360cc saab turbo injectors helped allong thanks to Dave!
Samco Hoses

Transmision.

Stock....for now.

Chassis

Avo coilovers
Polybushes at rear.
Later oem bushes up front.

Brakes

BBS 17" RC's with toyo's
TT 312mm brakes up front
MK4 alloy calipers at rear.
New ATE everything..

Inside.

Inovative Wide band controller.
Omori EGT gauge
Mocal Boost gauge.
Stock interior.

I.C.E

yes i have boom boom.

Outside.

Its Red. with sporting metro vents....


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Its off the road for the year untill the winter is over.

But Ive got OBD2 to fit to the car with C2 software so it should see me up to 400hp
Also have an external bosch 044 pump and swirl tank to go on.
Few odds and ends to improve on,but its all worth it as its such a giggle to drive

thanks for looking all,i have lots more pics in my photobucket link.

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I'm liking that turbo manifold, that there is some serious ingenuity!

Great to see another diy'er over here.
I always liked this car.

when do you think you will start the C2 install?

Thanks Millspeed and dirtytorque

As for the C2,i will get the car out of storage as soon as the salt on the roads have gone,then its strip down!

Bloody awesome build there mate!

Must go some!!!!

How's the cheap T70 holding up?

Cheers Shaggy,it does go and will even more once the C2 is sorted

The turbo.....its doing well,kind of!
When i first fitted it i did not add a restrictor to the turbo when i should have,did not realise journal bearings needed a restrictor. Just thought ball bearing types needed a restricor.

So it started to smoke on idle with the old motor,so i welded up and drilled a .60 hole as a restrictor into the feed,it stoped smoking for sometime,then i poped my motor...silly me.

After i built my new motor and had run it in, all was still working fine,but now on random times after you switch it off after a good run out and start it back up again after say 2-5min it will puff blue.

Apart from that it works very well and i supect me over feeding it wont have helped the seals much,but for 70 quid who cares?!

tempted to buy another cheap one with the right hotside.

£70? Bloody hell, that's cheap as fook!

How would the smaller A/R on the hot-side effect the characteristics of the motor? Would it spool earlier and quicker?

Smaller snail means faster spool time.It would spool up to 300-500rpm less,as the lag is to much for me!

Great DIY skills, if i can add some constructive criticism though, pleeeeeeaaaaassssssssssse lose the stickers, keep people guessing.

most peeps think its a 20vt! ha ha!

Yea i can see how it can be so confusing.

Im not joking,the first thing that comes out of people mouths is it a 20vt! and i give that look of...."o..k" and shut the hood!

so are you all done now.Does the new ecu self learn or does it come with a map designed for your engine specs?
Does it feel the same as b4?
You gonna rolling road it?

Oh and can i ask where you got the parts for your zaust manni,flange etc..

Its all done besides the fuel pump which should go on later this week.
So it runs the same 9psi as it did before,it does drive the same...ish but its much smoother on light crusing and has allot more low down grunt and no more pinking! no matter what throttle and rev range.

Also the rpm has been raised 500rpm more so its now at 7500rpm,as for mapping ,dont know,i suspect the ecu is a self learing,but i really dont know.

Thats why i went down this route,plug and play fun,turn the key and forget.

i will rolling raod it at some stage,not fussed as my ass tells me how much power it has..

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