Getting there.. My "600whp" cashpit! WARNING LOTS OF PICS!

[RyanRs]

Ok, dont really know where to start, been working on the car on and off for the past 4 years or so now, and its not far from completion, well, i suppose starting from the beginning would make sense!

Sooo. I purchased the car as the 1st uk owner, it had a genuine veilside kit, a few goodies ie Fcon-V, Blitz-k1-380 turbo, PP SMIC, TRD LSD etc etc. the car was said to be making around 340 fwhp at 1.5bar, but tbh i dont know how true this was.

How it used to be :-




Anyhow, after 11 months of screaming about at near 1.6 bar, not really thinking it could be doing any harm, my pistons finally went pop! Ok, this is my 1st turbo car, how was i supposed to know!! So, off the road it came, with the intention of a quick rebuild and back on the road. I used to be an apprentice mechanic some 8 years ago and i have built a couple of engines and have a generally good knowledge of the science behind a cars mechanics, so i decided to have ago at fixing it myself.

So, we waited for the weather to be at its absolute worst, and we set off to work
We started fresh an early in the morning ( noon ), then spent the next 2 hours constructing a marquee out of tarpaulin sheet and about a million cable ties, in the middle of a hurricane / thunderstorm -even tho it doesn't look that bad in the pic, believe me it was!!




at about 3am Viola! there she is!





and heres the damage...


So, my spec. It was supposed to be. Forged pistons, rebore, vitals like bearings etc, DONE! But thanks to Ant (cantfindausername) interfering and giving me ideas, it turned into a project that just got more and more out of hand.

Spec so far.

Engine.

Re-conditioned block, decked, new oil squirter's.
Chrome-molly ductile cylinder sleeves
5SFE forged crankshaft 91mm stroke. Lightened,knife edged,balanced, polished, Wedged, nitrided. displacement 2.14L 8.4:1 CR
Omega 86.5mm forged pistons w/ceramic skirts and machined valve cut-outs.
Eagle con-rods
ARP Head stud kit
ARP Flywheel bolt kit
ARP Con-rod bolts
ARP Mains bolts
ACL Mains and small bearings
Toyota 1mm rev3 MLS head gasket
xxxx Magnetic sump plug
New OEM oil pump
Stock re-conditioned head with stock cams,valves and pulleys
Phoenix power 'custom' side entry intake manifold (from that 750bhp black PP car.)
Nissan Q45 90mm throttle body
Nissan S13 200sx throttle position sensor
LinkPlus G3 XLEM engine management (from lockys PP car)
Link 7bar map sensor
1200cc Bosch top feed injectors
ATS Top feed fuel rail, Dead headed setup.
Aeromotive 13101 FPR
Summit FP Gauge
Bosch 044 external 300lph pump
AN-8 goodridge fuel supply line
AN-6 goodridge fuel return line
Summit racing AN-8 inline fuel filter
Custom made fuel pickup
Custom oil heat exchanger replacement
Samco coolant silicone hose kit
Samco Aux silicone hose kit
2 spal engine lid fans on Gtech shroud.
Full Wire tuck


Turbo/exhaust

Modified Apexi Power intake
Blitz K1-380 turbocharger
Custom Boot mount intercooler with twin spal fans.
Custom Side vent blocking plates
Greddy Type-R BOV
De-cat 3" stainless downpipe
Custom 4" b-section
Phoenix power departure II Pro 3.75" exhaust (from lockys PP car)

Clutch/trans.

Os Giken Lightweight flywheel
Os Giken Twin plate unsprung motorsport clutch
TRD 1.5way LSD
Uprated shifter bushings

Suspension/brakes
Tien Type Flex suspension
Cusco Type-II Rear strut brace
TRD ARB + bushings
Ant onions custom 'big disk' calliper spacing kit
Goodridge braided brake lines


Electronics/interior.

Blitz Twin SBC-R dual solenoid boost controller
Greddy Turbo timer
Momo fighter steering wheel
Recaro SPD reclining bucket seats
TRS 4-Point FIA Aproved harnesses with custom mountings
TRD clock set
EMS powered digital boost gauge
Custom centre console with integrated 8" LCD touch screen
Mini-Itx pc with LinkPlus engine management USB link and software
Alpine CDA-9855r
PS2 slimline in car entertainment

Body

Genuine Border racing front bumper
Genuine Veilside side skirts
Genuine Veilside rear bumper
Genuine Veilside rear spoiler
4xRear light + brake and fogs wiring modification

Misc
Custom engine lid gas strut

And a partridge in a pear tree!

Heres some pics of the progress..

X-member powdercoated


Mums worktop (oops)


Highly modified 5sfe Stroker crank


omega pistons w/ceramic sides


Eagle Rods.


short Block with powder-coated brackets (shinnnnny)

[RyanRs]

Gearbox on the easy way


Custom intercooler pan.


Custom laser cut shroud to fit the pan.






Os Giken clutch (thanks gee man)


Difference between Departure reg and pro..




Custom part to remove the oil heat exchanger..

[RyanRs]

Picked some better weather to refit the engine




Travis's new idea for boost injection


teamwork :p


Me working hard










PP intake fitted


wire tuck



Omg, so many pics! will upload the rest later me thinks.

[marc GT Turbo]

its only money great engine build the list of engine spec is just awesome

[Yas]

Top marks for attention to detail, looking good pal

[Fred_Bear]

Hi

That looks fantastic, what an amazing amount of thought and care. Can't wait to see it all finished.

One sad thing that shows my age is I thought "wow, where did he get the WD40 with that spray top fitted from"!

[RyanRs]

Thanks for the kind words Its certainly been a mixture of hate and happiness with this so build far though; had a lot of hiccups and a few oil spills etc etc lol. but its great when it all comes together and the end result is fab! Especially knowing you did it yourself and the fact that i have literally learnt everything as i have gone along purely from asking loads of questions,ringing companies for advice and researching like hell!

Well, here is the last of the pics (so far). Its not looking as pretty as the previous setup with the stock TB, but its still work in progress and will be tided when its complete.

Big thanks to Bob Hatton for the goodridge parts.


ATS TFFR, 1200cc injectors, Summit racing inline filter and gauge, couple of goodridge fittings.


My custom fuel tank pickup (Cannot take all the credit for this tho,got the idea from ^trickster^ )




From this


To this


Bay with new manifold and fuel system fitted (believe it or not, its actually in need of a good clean and polish!)


BMIC With fuel pump now in place. There is some dodgy pipe work on the TB side,but will be addressing that soon.




And Finally the car as she is now




Borrowed the 4x4 from work and hired a trailer for £60! Never drove with a car trailer before so was very nervous, not quite the same as driving an artic lorry.




Ryan and Thingymabob working the magic.


Currently i am making 418.1 fwbhp and 370 lbft!! I must point out that this is on a Blitz k1-380 turbo (which is basically a Hybrid CT20)! This turbo is fully refurbished and will be up for sale soon. I am also using a bone stock rev3 head!



I must Point out about the shape of that graph, on the day of tuning, the Profec-b that i recently purchased on here second hand turned out to be faulty so we had to throw my oldskool blitz EBC back on in a hurry and it was not set up at all, So the gain etc was at the minimum, hence the smoothness of the graph. When we got out to road test, we played with the gain slightly and you could feel the boost coming in much harder, this would have obviously affected the graph in a way which the power curve will be steeper and make more power sooner.

The plans to finish the car now are :-

Garrett/FP GT3582r with HTA Billet compressor wheel and anti surge housing
Top mount manifold (already got)
3" V-band downpipe
Tial MV-R 44mm external wastegate with side exit screamer pipe
1ZZ COP converion
Custom alloy water bottle (to replace the 1.5L orange squash bottle lol)
AEM EGT gauge
Cusco front strut bar
poly-bushes and new ballpoints
R888's

Then hopefully 2 bar of boost and + of 500bhp at the wheels!

I have also been toying with the idea on flaring the arches out and blending them in with a set of genuine border skirts that i have in my loft! but this would mean new rims etc and its going to get expensive, its another project on its own basically and i dont know if i fancy it tbh.

Thanks all for looking! (and i apologise if your pc has blown up from all the pics )

[Martin F]

Looks like an Awesome build, well done mate

[craig]

Great effort bud, looks great!

[mattymr2]

truely stunning build. top marks. well done

[tarmac terrorist]

looking good mate i can see why your mum & dad want you out pmsl

[loudandproud205]

lovely work

changing the bumper did make all the difference

some very nice attention to detail there

[Mike 'MR2' McHugh]

Very nice mate , looks great throughout

[ancient mariner]

absolutely stunning fella .paul.

[Si_Crewe]

Absolutely beautiful engine work.
Stunning.

Also nice to see you get rid of the fugly Veilside front.
I know some people like em and they can look okayish on a bigger car but they just don't look right on an MR2 IMO.

[GBTurbo]

looks like a really nice job well done mate

[Steve Horrocks]

Some excellent stuff there, car/work looks amazing, top work fella!

[matt_mr2t]

OK Ryan, NOW I see why you don't want to sell it.

Btw, I've met you before somewhere, it must have been either JAE 2008 or perhaps a RR day once?

I remember your car and you I know that.

[greeny]

Pulling engines under a tarpaulin, stripping them on a kitchen side

Brilliant!

[cantfindausername]

Can't see the pics while I'm at work, but I know this build quite well, and the detail and time that Ryan has applied to it. One word pretty much sums it up... Stunning

Sorry for leading you astray mate