The Turbo Ta Build Thread
04-18-2010, 04:12 PM
#1
The Turbo Ta Build Thread As you may or may not know I got the back from the chassis shop last week. It was gone for a LONG time, and while it was gone the work that was planned just piled up. Well now that it is back in our hands the work can once again begin! I decided to just start an actual build thread to keep it all organized, so this is the thread for updates this season. This Car would not get done without the help of my buddy Sean(Broke EF). He has as much time as i do if not more working on it.
Two years ago Sean and myself bult a truck manifold turbo kit. Turbo kit uses a Precision GT42-76, Tial 44 gate, and Tial 50mm Bov.
The car used a walbro 255 pump, 60lb injectors, a ls6 intake, and mafe tune(didn't work out so great) 460ish whp @ 6psi...
Current build is getting
Brand new Lq9 block(370)
Stock Crank
Callies Rods
Wiesco Piston
Arp Main studs
Arp Head Studs
Patroit Stage 3 317 heads, Patriot Gold springs
Fabd valve covers with -10 bungs for a catch can
Custom Spec'd Turbo Cam
Ls7 Lifters
Brand new Gm rockers, with comp cams Trunion Upgrade
ls6 Intake
Stock Ported TB
Speed Inc Fuel rails
Fuel Lab regulator
Fuel Lab filter
-8 feed
-6 return
2 Walbro 255 pumps in take, With racetronix hotwire
The same Truck Manifold Turbo kit is going back on.(for now)
Suspension is All midwest Chassis Everywhere.
Rear Lower control arms, and panhard bar
Fron Upper, and lower control arm, Spindle, Manual rack, K Member
Rear stock spring, with Comp Engingeering strut
Front Stage Drag coilover
Brakes
Midwest chassis Manual Master
Replume the entire Car with brake line, and Strange 4 piston drag brakes @ all 4 corners
Trans
Drc Th400 with transbrake
B&M ratchet Carbon Fiber shifter
Tci Trans cooler
PTC Specd Turbo Converter
Rear End
Midwest Chassis Fab 9
spool, 35 spline axles, ect
Motor should be in this week, and the rest of the parts i pretty much have. Just need time to get them all ont he car, and get everything else done at the same time. Weight of this car should come in right around 3000 lbs, without a driver.(I think) I am hopeing in 6-8 weeks to have the car running, and begin the tunning again. this time it will be a 2 bar SD tune.
Futur plans consit of Upgrade to a 99+ ecu, so i can run 3 bar SD, with bigger injectors, and Get a bigger turbo, and Redo the turbo kit!
We started this weekend by mostly pulling out some weight, and generally got the car ready to carpet. I don't really have any pictures of specific work on this, but basically sean chopped out un-needed brackets, pulled excess wiring, and anything not needed. I got to work pulling the crash bars from the doors, changing the rear brakes, swapping out the rear control arms, and panhard bar to Midwest Chassis pieces. On with the pics.
This is somewhat before work started
Front view (had already pulled the e-brake and center brackets in this pic) You can also see the stock wheel is gone, and the quick release installed.
From the other side
Here is a shot of the stock brakes
A couple of comparison shots between the stock rotor and the strange rotor
And the strange brakes done
Started on the shifter mount/filling the 6-speed shifter hole
Tacked in
didn't get it finished, but its closeish here
whipped up a panel to cover the access hole in the back, you can also see we installed the HVAC delete panel
Here is the pile of **** we pulled from the car
And here is the weight of the pile
Well thats all for this week, it doesn't look like much but it was a lot of tedious work done. Thanks for looking!
Two years ago Sean and myself bult a truck manifold turbo kit. Turbo kit uses a Precision GT42-76, Tial 44 gate, and Tial 50mm Bov.
The car used a walbro 255 pump, 60lb injectors, a ls6 intake, and mafe tune(didn't work out so great) 460ish whp @ 6psi...
Current build is getting
Brand new Lq9 block(370)
Stock Crank
Callies Rods
Wiesco Piston
Arp Main studs
Arp Head Studs
Patroit Stage 3 317 heads, Patriot Gold springs
Fabd valve covers with -10 bungs for a catch can
Custom Spec'd Turbo Cam
Ls7 Lifters
Brand new Gm rockers, with comp cams Trunion Upgrade
ls6 Intake
Stock Ported TB
Speed Inc Fuel rails
Fuel Lab regulator
Fuel Lab filter
-8 feed
-6 return
2 Walbro 255 pumps in take, With racetronix hotwire
The same Truck Manifold Turbo kit is going back on.(for now)
Suspension is All midwest Chassis Everywhere.
Rear Lower control arms, and panhard bar
Fron Upper, and lower control arm, Spindle, Manual rack, K Member
Rear stock spring, with Comp Engingeering strut
Front Stage Drag coilover
Brakes
Midwest chassis Manual Master
Replume the entire Car with brake line, and Strange 4 piston drag brakes @ all 4 corners
Trans
Drc Th400 with transbrake
B&M ratchet Carbon Fiber shifter
Tci Trans cooler
PTC Specd Turbo Converter
Rear End
Midwest Chassis Fab 9
spool, 35 spline axles, ect
Motor should be in this week, and the rest of the parts i pretty much have. Just need time to get them all ont he car, and get everything else done at the same time. Weight of this car should come in right around 3000 lbs, without a driver.(I think) I am hopeing in 6-8 weeks to have the car running, and begin the tunning again. this time it will be a 2 bar SD tune.
Futur plans consit of Upgrade to a 99+ ecu, so i can run 3 bar SD, with bigger injectors, and Get a bigger turbo, and Redo the turbo kit!
We started this weekend by mostly pulling out some weight, and generally got the car ready to carpet. I don't really have any pictures of specific work on this, but basically sean chopped out un-needed brackets, pulled excess wiring, and anything not needed. I got to work pulling the crash bars from the doors, changing the rear brakes, swapping out the rear control arms, and panhard bar to Midwest Chassis pieces. On with the pics.
This is somewhat before work started
Front view (had already pulled the e-brake and center brackets in this pic) You can also see the stock wheel is gone, and the quick release installed.
From the other side
Here is a shot of the stock brakes
A couple of comparison shots between the stock rotor and the strange rotor
And the strange brakes done
Started on the shifter mount/filling the 6-speed shifter hole
Tacked in
didn't get it finished, but its closeish here
whipped up a panel to cover the access hole in the back, you can also see we installed the HVAC delete panel
Here is the pile of **** we pulled from the car
And here is the weight of the pile
Well thats all for this week, it doesn't look like much but it was a lot of tedious work done. Thanks for looking!
Last edited by Sideways240sx; 04-18-2010 at 05:22 PM.
04-18-2010, 04:36 PM
#2
I will try to do updates every weekend, really excited to see what the car can do. Hopeing for around 700 hp on 14.7 psi(limit of stock ecu). Thanks to everyone on this site. I have gotten a ton of ideas, and attempted stuff i might not have done because of this site!
Chris
Chris
Trending Topics
04-25-2010, 11:43 AM
#15
Nothing to exciting to update this weekend, but here it is anyway. We finished pulling all of the un-necessary parts, and lines. Did more work on the shifter mount, but ran out of gas for the welder before I finished. On to the pics!
Started out by turning the car around so we can get to the front easier.
Quick shot under the hood before work started
Having the right tools was key this weekend! This was removing the pedal assembly and the long extension made it a million times easier.
After pulling the brake master cylinder, and the booster. Also the clutch master cylinder is out too.
Up in the air to pull the fuel and brake lines
Here is the pile of **** that got yanked out this weekend and trashed. The top pile is stuff that is going to be modified and put back in.
No more wiper motor/arms. The stock plastic cowl cover is going to go back on.
This picture turned out bad, but this was after everything was pulled out.
Well that is all for this weekend, like I said not too exciting to look at. Now that the last of the tear down stuff is done we can start with the fun part, putting it all back together! Lots of parts came in this week, and the last of them will be here in the next couple of days. Next week should start the more exciting post where it actually looks like we got something done.
Thanks for looking!
Sean
Started out by turning the car around so we can get to the front easier.
Quick shot under the hood before work started
Having the right tools was key this weekend! This was removing the pedal assembly and the long extension made it a million times easier.
After pulling the brake master cylinder, and the booster. Also the clutch master cylinder is out too.
Up in the air to pull the fuel and brake lines
Here is the pile of **** that got yanked out this weekend and trashed. The top pile is stuff that is going to be modified and put back in.
No more wiper motor/arms. The stock plastic cowl cover is going to go back on.
This picture turned out bad, but this was after everything was pulled out.
Well that is all for this weekend, like I said not too exciting to look at. Now that the last of the tear down stuff is done we can start with the fun part, putting it all back together! Lots of parts came in this week, and the last of them will be here in the next couple of days. Next week should start the more exciting post where it actually looks like we got something done.
Thanks for looking!
Sean
