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jiggaman_16

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  1. Thats some very good info right there. Very informative, you would get some rep for that. I'm sorting out myself from that predicament too, Moving from a Borg Warner turbo with a big azz back housing to a TD05-18G with hopefully a 7cm turbine (Ebay vendors with Chinese products dont have all the relevant specifics of the item ..... , cant expect much better). What gives me hope is that a friend with a TD05-16G has a larger turbine inlet compared to mine (54mm vs 46 mm). Anyhoo, nice going Bussey. Supposed to be super responsive when done.
  2. Those springs are pretty soft frm my experience. May be even worse for u since u plan to actually put the car thru some corners. Wish u all the best tho.
  3. Lovin the progress. Keep it up & it'll b on the road in no time.
  4. Nice. Keep us posted.
  5. Now thats supmn u dont see everyday
  6. hope thats the problem right there. Removing it on your own, that aint so bad, but re-installing it on your own without the proper tools ....... thats a doozy right there
  7. Absolutely lovin the new swap .... dont even need boost to level the field
  8. What i like about the setup is the custom fuel pump holder. When done that way, you can increase the size of the hard lines that go through the top of the holder therefore increasing the size of the entire fuel supply lines to a true AN8. I have done the mod where i run a AN8 line & use the stock supply line for the return but it's not a true AN8 system as my custom line goes back to the stock AN6 sized fitting on the pump holder as well as the entry to the fuel rail, also AN6 sized.
  9. Nice Wat ECU u plan on using?
  10. As they say in Jamaica, "Fashion over Style". It doesnt necessarily make a whole lot of sense but it works, just daring to be different.
  11. Mind telling us where that vacuum leak was at pal?
  12. March 9th had gone. Anything?
  13. Slightly higher power at slightly less boost than normal. Stunning mate.
  14. Checked out the slicks & wheels today. The rims were bent as hell. Carried them straight bk to the guy i bought them frm who accepted them without complain. Bugger knew wat was up all along even tho he say he didnt.
  15. So the spacers were moved from back & fit on the front to accommodate the slicks, car was test driven on them & lo & behold, they had a problem. Even just after moving off & before getting up to speed, a terrible wobble was felt. The whole front of the car wobbled & the steering wheel just oscillated quickly from side to side. This was a no go. I decided to drive the car to get a little heat in the tyres to see if they were just cold or supmn, still the same. When a passenger held her head out & observed the tyre, the wobble could be seen & it felt even worse at higher speeds. Bcuz this was Saturday afternoon, i had wrk in the evening & Vernam was Sunday morning, i just had to abandon them & wrk with the street tyres. The seller has been notified & he promises to work with me to rectify the problem. I'll be carrying them to an alignment stand today to put them on the balancing machine to see what is really what. I actually tried a launch on them but the car felt down on power.More on that. Bae was washed & vaccuumed Sunday mornin as well as the little last minute things ( my friends left Mobay & reached before me leavin from Kingston ) I drove there, stripped out the front seat, tool box & spare tyres & set out for my first time slip with the turbo setup. Experience teaches wisdom is such a true saying. This generally saves time & MONEY over a long term & it rings so true for us car guys. A little history on Sherona. The car was initially turbocharged with a TD04 turbo & a eBay civic exhaust turbo exhaust manifold modified to accept the 4E/5E cylinder head flange & the Mitsubishi TD04 flange. The car was up & running, went well but little problems normally popped up just before a drag meet so i never got to attend an event. I eventually got tired of the rush of the TD04 as well as what i thought was an oil leak from the compressor housing was bcuz of a lack of a restrictor in the oil feed line. I happened to get a bigger turbo, a Borg Warner GM5. The compressor housing was pretty big but this is a little less of a concern for a car engine. The turbine housing however was fairly big, (no marking on the back housing & very little info on the internet led me to find out it was about a 0.60 size) but not too big for a medium horsepower car engine setup. So i decided i would try it. U can probably guess where this is heading. Back to Vernam. I got thru for Q7, lined up, did a nice lil burnout, staged & left the line. One thing holds true in drag racing especially for a noob or a driver with a new setup. When you finish the quarter mile, no matter how fast the car feels goin down the track, no matter what time u think u did, it always ends up being a lesser time than you thought. There was a a lot of wheelspin on moveoff so i feathered it, car bogged down then eventually picked up, boost reached 6 psi & the meth kicked in & she began to haul, rowed thru the gears, crossed the line, spun & collected the slip. 15.3xx at 80 supmn mph ......... This is wat i worked so hard for? This is wat i boosted my car for? This is what so much money went into? The flaw in my setup was beginning to show ........no, was being confirmed at this point. The less experienced of us read & hear about big turbos really spooling on late & a few of us actually felt it & know. This was my revelation now. The car only began to haul when the methanol kicked in. I decided what the heck, i'm here already, not much changes can be made at this point so just run it. Lined up again, remembered that feathering due to wheelspin normally causes a loss in overall time & speed , so i decided to hammer it. Went out again, this time launching at a slightly higher RPM & holding it & she went a lil better this time. Shifted like a bat outa hell (the 5 speed blacktop LSD box allows you to quickshift like a hot knife through butter), went thru the line, spun & collected the timeslip with a 15.0xx at 90 supmn mph ....... better than before but still disappointed. Qualifying was still open so i had the choice to go again but carefully thought about it. Run again, get a slower time, . Run again, quicker time, high in 14 sec class, non - competitive, . Work with it ...... ..... might as well. So i just parked the car until eliminations. Didnt touch a thing. I had experience with eliminations so the technique was nothing new for me. Lined up with my worthy opponent Simon Smith in a blue DC5-R. Launched the car but for some reason this time, Sherona bogged after the launch, dropped out of boost, waited on the buildup, but as you know by this time, the K20'd R was long gone. 15.4xxx sec :p Lots of observation & experience me taught me a number of things. 1) Honda heads have a high flowing characteristic, Toyotas such as the E engines dont. A turbo manifold designed for a Honda has some big runners sized roughly correctly for a Honda head. Stick that on a Toyota E series engine with mild head mods (only Acoustic cams in my case) & your dead in the water. For our setup (E engines), a smaller runner will work wonders. I looked at Puffy's car (previous world record holder for quickest 5E at 10.xxx sec) & a few other starlets. I had bigger runners than most if not all of them. 2) The next thing was the piss poor collector on the manifold. It was like a bloody bowl in there. The design totally kills flow. had i known better at first, i would have skipped past this manifold & moved on to a manifold with a narrower angle collector. 3) Turbo with too big of a turbine housing. I need to go no further with this one. Maybe i do. I borrowed a boost controller to try to reign in the wastegate as we deduced it was bleeding off boost early while the boost pressure approached the rated pressure of the spring. This helped somewhat but not as much as we hoped. The turbo pulls pretty good when the engine is at speed & especially up in RPM but the 16psi it was set at didnt feel like a hard hitting 16psi. Again ....... not enough exhaust gas flow from the engine to really get the turbo feeling ballsy .I know for a fact that the car would have been faster & DEFINITELY run a lower time if i still had the TD04 on. The big runner manifold with a nicely sized turbo is OK but the big runner manifold with the big turbine housing is a from a medium flow engine is a really bad setup. I have decided on a different exhaust manifold & a turbo more reasonably sized for the engine. I'm eyeing a TD05 16G. If these changes can be made on a budget, then they will be done in time for the next meet as i've put a pause on major spending on Bae. Priorities are at hand. Y do i say bittersweet? We all know turbochagers are power adders. Idiots know that. I dont need a timeslip to prove it, but nature humbles u sometime & shows you the basics. My best time N/A was 16.0, my first outing boosted is 15.0 sec. Yes, the turbo proved that it makes the car go faster but for the setup, i thought it would be way faster. Low 14, high 13. I know mods are capable, just that the Kool Aid wasnt mixed right this time around. In the meantime, she looks pretty good on the line & my favorite
  16. Such a difference. Goodness gracious!
  17. Big up Samurailos, show us wats up with the machine. Catch can is 80% complete. from this to this to this Diameter is about 4 inches, height about 6 " or so, filter pipe diameter is 1.73". Just need to weld on 2 or 3 inlet pipes to the can & a mounting bracket, then spray it. I'm thinking a dull black, maybe the wrinkle type. Wat u think?
  18. Parts parts parts Theres nothing as pleasing as acquiring new parts especially when they are obtained at a low price ..... on Ebay ....... with free shipping to Jamaica ........ straight to the post office or u gate ...... no Customs involved DIY catch can Version 1 Search high & low & obtain a piece of 4.5" stainless pipe, slit it & remove a piece to get the desired 4" diameter, tack it, obtain old stainless steel sign, mark out circles, cut out circles, tack onto canister / cylinder, clean up edges, to be continued ............ So bcuz i wanted to go big boy catch can style, i ordered a big enough (according to oil catch can standards) breather filter. It is actually a motorcycle engine air filter but works just fine for this application. Bcuz of a budget build aimed at simplicity, careful scouring of the net led me to getting the breather filter seen earlier in this thread. However, after receiving it, i realized the shape of it didnt really appeal to me. So i re-ordered one from the UK (free shipping of course [applause]) & exactly 9 days after, its at the post office. Point to note: when ordering simple stuff online from Ebay, if the item is available at the regular www.ebay.com, just make a search at www.ebay.co.uk to see if it's available in the UK. If so & the price is right, i almost guarantee you it will be delivered to Jamaica in half the time or less than it would take from Japan or China. Just try it. First breather filter vs. new breather filter Funny enough, its pretty bigger than i thought when i saw it but ..... go hard or go home [eyebrows] [eyebrows] [eyebrows] The top cover of the can just needs to be completed now & it will look like a much cleaner version of this The last pieces of my Fuel pressure Regulator puzzle arrived today. The Push on AN-6 90 & 45 degree fittings landed at the post office . So all the parts together looks like this: I made one mistake though, when ordering the AN fittings, i didnt specify them to be the ones that come with O-rings so im gonna link Bearings & Seals or one of those places for two O-rings. I reall y need this to be done as the car leans out under boost & upon checking, i realize that the fuel pressure gauge randomly reads 2 Bars & sometimes 2.5 Bars at idle. When raised to above 3, it falls back down & sometimes the FPR just wont take any adjustment. I hooooooope thats the Sard FPR acting up & not the pump or anything.
  19. A restrictor was installed in the feed line for two reasons. 1) Online research has shown that high oil pressure & volume to the turbo is one of the #1 one causes for oil to leak into the compressor & turbine housings. I thought my last turbo (TD04) was blown due to the fact that oil was definitely leaking into the compressor housing. Once when the intercooler pipe after the turbo was removed, a small pool of oil ran out of it as well as smears of oil could be seen at the compressor inlet. 2) Since a change of turbochargers, ( TD04 to a bigger unit) i have been experiencing a drop in oil pressure when the engine is warmed up & at idle. Also, after the installation of the AN-4 steel braided line to the previous TD04, my cold engine oil pressure sghot up to 80 psi at startup [crazy]. I was lovin this. However, after the installation of the Borg Warner, startup pressure was approximately 45 psi & warm idle pressure dropped to about 10 psi [worried] [worried] [worried]. I figured that due to this turbo being bigger & having a larger cartridge (CHRA), the internal passages would be bigger, thus creating less restriction & resultantly allowing less "pressure" to be present inside the cartridge, all this resulting in less system pressure. Picture a oil system at X pressure & then a new free flowing gallery is introduced. So with the guidance of http://www.sr20-forum.com/forced-induction-turbo/2357-how-make-oil-restrictor-less-then-10-a.html & http://www.2gnt.com/index.php?d=DIY_oil_restrictor i made a restrictor. I ended up using a bolt because the bolt shop didnt have a set screw with the thread to match the tap that i had available to me. Turbo oil feed fitting Top view of fitting .... showing size of hole ..... ignore dirty hands : Bolt was cut leaving a small piece of the threaded shaft, 1/8" hole was drilled & then a slot cut so a flat tip screwdriver could be used to install it It was installed, oil pressure observed & ................ didnt reall y help much, oil pressure is up by a couple psi but not out of the worry zone. Some folks use a 1/16" restrictor but i'm a bit iffy about that one. We'll see .................... The catch can has been removed (again [whistle]) to fabricate a bigger & probably better unit. 3.5" inch diameter, bout 6" tall, bigger filter (44mm inlet), probably 3 inlets this time instead of two........... A new piece of the puzzle has been acquired. An Aeromotive fuel pressure regulator has been received & the fittings slowly trickled in. Two AN-6 90 & 45 degree barb type fittings are still on the way (cheap parts from China can be a fool sometimes, free shipping & ting but the wait [wallbash] [wallbash] [wallbash] [wallbash]) I always plan for the drag strip & it tends to fall through but i'm resilient this time. Once the FPR is installed, the intercooler piping needs to be removed to check for leaks as well as the downpipe removed for porting & grinding down a few rough edges left from the fabrication work done when it was knocked up. A check on the E-Manage & Sherona should make her official Vernamfield debut next month. Also have some used 23.5x9x15 rubbers on the way to get some much needed traction.
  20. Team Dynamics has a set of wheels that look just like the OZ Cronos then i assume .......... Nice setup by the way
  21. Hope thats all u need to get it back in the sweet spot bro
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