Intro turned hopefully epic build thread
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Ok guys small update. Still waiting on the damn machine shop to finish my crank but I should hopefully have it back by tomorrow, or the end of the week at the latest. Thats the last thing I am waiting on before I can start assembly on the engine. I got bored so I did some mocking up of the parts to get an idea of how everything would look and to make sure everything would fit properly.
Painted the block
Test fitting manifold
If I end up getting the crank back in the next day or two I should have everything back together and the engine back in the car by Saturday. It sucks having the car down for this long as I'm having Miata withdrawals. She'll be alive soon though.
Painted the block
Test fitting manifold
If I end up getting the crank back in the next day or two I should have everything back together and the engine back in the car by Saturday. It sucks having the car down for this long as I'm having Miata withdrawals. She'll be alive soon though.
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At the power level you're looking to pursue, tune has to be good either way. And I bet most saying it will fail aren't running e85. (I know it doesn't make your engine indestructible, but you sure can do some absurd things with the stuff.....assuming its actual e85)
At the power level you're looking to pursue, tune has to be good either way. And I bet most saying it will fail aren't running e85. (I know it doesn't make your engine indestructible, but you sure can do some absurd things with the stuff.....assuming its actual e85)
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Any time you try something uncommon, you're going to get some razzing if for no other reason than to make sure you've completely thought it through.
Vlad is right; your tune needs to be good regardless. Good luck. Check out nitrodanns 12:1 build.
Vlad is right; your tune needs to be good regardless. Good luck. Check out nitrodanns 12:1 build.
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It's probably the angle but if you look you will see that the wastegate bracket is just sitting there, it's not actually bolted to the turbo yet so its sitting up a bit higher than it should be. When its bolted on it is at the same level the oil fill cap is at so it shouldn't have any issues with hood clearance.
I have a pretty good local tuner who is going to help me out with tuning it. I even bought this thing to make an electronic det can just to be on the safe side.
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I was gonna go with knocksenseMs but after doing some research I found it to be pretty much crap and I trust my ears over that thing. My buddy has a turboXS Knocklite that I may throw on there as well...we will see.
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No I just got the manifold and v-band downpipe. I didn't need the turbo as I already had a few laying around. I'll upload a few more pictures of the manifold and downpipe ihere in a minute incase anyone is curious how it looks.
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Do you guys think I should spray some high temp ceramic coating on there? or leave it as is? I'm not gonna wrap it.