Not going to take credit for building this car. It belonged to a good friend and fellow admin on mx6.com for many years. He offered to sell her to me and I jumped at the opportunity. The following thread will be getting her back on the street (she was sitting for a while and needs some maintenance) and modifying her further to how I see fit. She will be completely function based. Not like my 3.
Specs are as follows. I might be missing some things since this car has a lot of mods.
Turbo KLDE - came with a blown garrett super60 but I am swapping to a .63 trim t3/t4 that he gave me with the car.
Water to air intercooler setup - There was a working one on the car but I am running the lines through the cabin this time around. Reservoir in the trunk and a big radiator up front.
Walbro 255 fuel pump
Vortec FMU - Forget if it is 10:1 or 12:1
Adjustable fuel pressure regulator
Gutted intake manifold - all vris removed and the top was cut off by King6 fabrications and the internal baffles were smoothed over.
Removed the air conditioning unit completely including the parts under the dash. This freed up a hole in the firewall to run the intercooler lines through nicely. Also saved maybe 25 pounds of weight and rotational mass on the accessory belt.
Outlaw 4 piston big brakes with 13" cross drilled rotors
Ksport coilovers - I will be lowering it just enough to remove the wheel gap.
Kosei K1 16x7.5 +32 (I think) wheels. They weigh like 14 pounds a piece and will be staying on the car.
I forget what size tires. Maybe 225 wide but not sure. They're pretty meaty though.
Pics! In chronological order.
Coming home from Brooklyn. Talk about a crazy ass drive with a uhaul and car trailer.
First engine bay shot.
Getting started! Had to replace some fuel lines so the manifold came off.
Replaced the lines and removed the AC.
LOTS OF SPACE!
Hole for intercooler lines.
Under dash.
"Interior" currently removed for cleaning and ease of installing new parts.
Trunk layout mocked up. Need to make a floor to mount the battery and liquid reservoir onto. Also going to mount the pump in the spare tire well so gravity helps feed it.
And a more current engine bay shot. I have since moved the fmu toward the afpr by about 6 inches and connected the fuel lines and all the vacuum lines on the manifold.
I am currently waiting for my new radiator to arrive for the intercooler setup. Probably going to run a silicone 45 degree elbow between the turbo and the intercooler and have a friend of mine weld a bung onto the angled part of the intercooler (below the weld where the core starts) for the blow off valve.
Specs are as follows. I might be missing some things since this car has a lot of mods.
Turbo KLDE - came with a blown garrett super60 but I am swapping to a .63 trim t3/t4 that he gave me with the car.
Water to air intercooler setup - There was a working one on the car but I am running the lines through the cabin this time around. Reservoir in the trunk and a big radiator up front.
Walbro 255 fuel pump
Vortec FMU - Forget if it is 10:1 or 12:1
Adjustable fuel pressure regulator
Gutted intake manifold - all vris removed and the top was cut off by King6 fabrications and the internal baffles were smoothed over.
Removed the air conditioning unit completely including the parts under the dash. This freed up a hole in the firewall to run the intercooler lines through nicely. Also saved maybe 25 pounds of weight and rotational mass on the accessory belt.
Outlaw 4 piston big brakes with 13" cross drilled rotors
Ksport coilovers - I will be lowering it just enough to remove the wheel gap.
Kosei K1 16x7.5 +32 (I think) wheels. They weigh like 14 pounds a piece and will be staying on the car.
I forget what size tires. Maybe 225 wide but not sure. They're pretty meaty though.
Pics! In chronological order.
Coming home from Brooklyn. Talk about a crazy ass drive with a uhaul and car trailer.
First engine bay shot.
Getting started! Had to replace some fuel lines so the manifold came off.
Replaced the lines and removed the AC.
LOTS OF SPACE!
Hole for intercooler lines.
Under dash.
"Interior" currently removed for cleaning and ease of installing new parts.
Trunk layout mocked up. Need to make a floor to mount the battery and liquid reservoir onto. Also going to mount the pump in the spare tire well so gravity helps feed it.
And a more current engine bay shot. I have since moved the fmu toward the afpr by about 6 inches and connected the fuel lines and all the vacuum lines on the manifold.
I am currently waiting for my new radiator to arrive for the intercooler setup. Probably going to run a silicone 45 degree elbow between the turbo and the intercooler and have a friend of mine weld a bung onto the angled part of the intercooler (below the weld where the core starts) for the blow off valve.