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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 10:47 PM
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Default Another DIY turbo build

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My wife & I have been working on this almost daily for 6 mos. It is not in the same leage as a lot of the cars on here but we love it. It is absolutely bad *** on the street. This is my first gen III engine build & first turbo build.
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LS6 Block
forged -4 cc pistons
forged rods
stock crank
AFR 225 heads
TR224-114 cam
TC 76 turbo
Nasty Stage II with my own dual pump fuel system
Full "mostly" BMR suspension
Turbo 400
Vig 3k stall
9" rear

hell I can't remeber what else, here's some pics





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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 10:55 PM
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and mo pics:





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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 10:56 PM
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lets see some pics, no one can say you havent been working hard on it.
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 10:59 PM
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Nice!!
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 11:07 PM
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Nice work.
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 11:10 PM
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who's alternator set up did you use? what belt length .
Looks sweet !!!!!!!!!!
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by datsbad
who's alternator set up did you use? what belt length .
Looks sweet !!!!!!!!!!
It's the stainless works cheapy with stock length belt. It was a PITA to get lined up correctly.
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 11:24 PM
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Looks really good bro... nice to see it going... When you putting it on the rollers??
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Congratz on all the hard work !
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NICE! you guys will love the power! good luck on the car.
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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 07:54 AM
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looks good, well done.
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looks good man, i have the same exact thing going together in the next month or two myself...
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Well done!
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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 09:33 AM
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What kind of power you hoping to put down? Looks great!
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Nice!
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No dyno close to us. I have taken it to ~9 lbs of boost & started getting 1 to 3 degrees of KR. I have around 150 miles on it. I'm trying to decide on what racing gas to order.

The elec cooling fan is taking a beating from heat off of the turbo. I ordered a turbo blanket from Jose.
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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by code4
No dyno close to us. I have taken it to ~9 lbs of boost & started getting 1 to 3 degrees of KR. I have around 150 miles on it. I'm trying to decide on what racing gas to order.

The elec cooling fan is taking a beating from heat off of the turbo. I ordered a turbo blanket from Jose.


Looks good..... what fuel are you running in it now and what tuning have you done so far?? How much timing?? What are you using for tuning??? 3 BAR setup??? Wideband???
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Maybe you should try a progressive methanol injection kit...That would help with KR on the street atleast and then put some racing fuel for the track... Awesome work again bro... When I bought the KB BAP off of you your wife told me about it...She wasn't lying when she said that it's going to be nice... =)

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No dyno close to us. I have taken it to ~9 lbs of boost & started getting 1 to 3 degrees of KR. I have around 150 miles on it. I'm trying to decide on what racing gas to order.

The elec cooling fan is taking a beating from heat off of the turbo. I ordered a turbo blanket from Jose.
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Looks good..... what fuel are you running in it now and what tuning have you done so far?? How much timing?? What are you using for tuning??? 3 BAR setup??? Wideband???
92 octane pump gas. I have the 2bar hpt set up with a lm1. I have my AFR's looking pretty good except decel which I can't fix. I am running 12 degrees across the board while in boost. My iat's are a chillly 60 to 65 degrees. I thought it could handle 9 lbs. My CR is ~9.1 to 1 if I figured it correctly.
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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by 98turbls1
Maybe you should try a progressive methanol injection kit...That would help with KR on the street atleast and then put some racing fuel for the track... Awesome work again bro... When I bought the KB BAP off of you your wife told me about it...She wasn't lying when she said that it's going to be nice... =)
Thanks for the kind words.

Yeah I thought about meth but I would rather not have more stuff to worry about not working etc. I'll research it some more.

I put a drain in my tank so I can switch over to race gas when needed.
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