Car parts ready to be installed
Monday was an exciting day for me, with news that a big package had arrived at my friend’s house to pick up. Inside the package was the rest of the things I needed for the next stage of upgrades to my car. So, for those of you that might have any interest, we have:
A Treadstone TRV185 intercooler (which you have seen before), rated to 720hp. I am going to get my tuning shop to fabricate me some custom piping to go from the turbo to the intercooler (60mm) and then from the intercooler up to the engine (70mm). Should help cool down my intake temperatures a lot and help me make some more power. And I know the intercooler is upside down in this photo, but that’s how it’s going to have to be positioned when it’s mounted on my car!
Next, and a little less exciting to look at but just as vital, are a set of Fuel Injector Clinic 750cc injectors. As I’m going to be making quite a bit more power once everything is installed I want to be able to fuel it adequately. I currently have 560cc injectors in so will sell those and these will work nicely, as well as offering me some breathing room if I ever made future upgrades.
A couple of interior things come next. Firstly, an Autometer Z-Series oil pressure gauge to replace the Defi-D gauge I bought previously but which has died. At least I hope it has died; if not then I’ve been driving with a constant 30psi/2 bar of oil pressure in my car for the past 3 months! Not good. And below that is going to be a shift light. I found my car misfiring problem was due to it hitting the rev limiter when I was racing. Obviously the key is not hitting the limit. This light will come on when I get a couple of hundred revs below the limiter (around 7,200) so I can see in my periphery vision when I have to change gear.
A bunch of boring stuff here, but my car is just about due for a timing belt change. These need to be replaced every 5 years or a given number of miles and if a timing belt breaks then you can usually say goodbye to your entire engine. Yup, it’s one you want to keep an eye on. While that’s being done, I’m going to have the shop do all my other belts and bits of maintenance in that area so it’s all ready to go for another 5 years.
And finally, the piece de resistance if you will: a Bullseye Power 50-trim turbo in a T04B housing. That probably will mean nothing to most of you who regularly read this blog, but it’s a nice little piece of kit. It pretty much will bolt straight onto my exhaust manifold and should give me a nice performance increase. The spool-up is pretty quick and it will keep pulling all the way to my rev limiter.
Once all of these are installed and tuned I’d like to take the boost on my car up from 1.33 bar to somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5 bar. I could probably go higher but want the car to be a reliable daily driver too. When I do want to put my foot down a little, I am hoping for quarter mile times under 12.00s and with a speed of close to (if not over 190kmh). The limiting factor on that one is that I reach the top of 4th gear at around 7,500rpm so I might just have to ping off the limiter right at the end of the run. We will see, and I will report back once it’s all installed and running right.
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–that turbo is more like the coup-de-grace for your competitors!
–just think, in the unlikely event your car flips the intercooler will look right-side up! (ha ha ha, that won’t be happening though we all know)
–i think the shift light’s a good idea when seconds count…with all those other gauges and a track start-light to pay attention to…
The shift light is mainly going to be used when changing from 1st to 2nd. Once I’m in 2nd gear, unless my tyres spin all through the gear (which is possible given the extra power I’ll be making) I’ll have plenty of time to react and change gear. In 1st, when you’re looking at the road the revs go up almost too quickly. By the time you glance down you’re already at 7,300 and by the time you’ve put the clutch in you’ve hit the limiter which, for me, means misfiring all through the next gear.
as another potential misfire counter-action, have you considered running your gas down and having the fuel tank dropped and drained proper while the car is down for this install? as in be able to rule out one more thing: sediment.
Thanks for the advice. Fuel tank dropping is another expense I’d rather not fork out for. The fuel filter should hopefully catch any debris and I know for sure that it’s not causing this particular problem, due to the circumstances that cause it.