Gary's Track Day/Fast Road Weekend Car 1zz Turbo.. Now Built 2zz Turbo with E153

[Gaz2405]

Had the car in today for its clutch.

Pretty straight forward, including getting all the charge cooler and turbo bits out of the way with plenty of brew stops and changing two wheels bearings it took us just over 4 hours.

Will be changing disc and pads all round soon too, as we found a hair line crack in one of the rears.

First drive with the new clutch..... Wow this thing is fast! 😜

I also fully deleted all the charcoal canister pipes as I'd been pressurising the fuel tank!

Boost is now solid at 9.5psi peaking at 11!

So next thing is an adjustable wastegate and a boost Controller and wind it down at peak a little.

Very very happy with the car at the moment!

I've ordered some an12 weld in fittings for the expansion tank, as currently they're on an6-an12 adaptors and want it more free flowing.

[1979scotte]

What turbo do you have mate?
Wouldn't want to push anymore than 10 psi for longevity.

My sp240 kit would peak at 10psi but then drop down to 7 or 8 at high rpm.

[Gaz2405]

What turbo do you have mate?
Wouldn't want to push anymore than 10 psi for longevity.

My sp240 kit would peak at 10psi but then drop down to 7 or 8 at high rpm.

It's a Td04 15t from a saab 93, yeah they're the sort of boost figures I'm looking at.

[Gaz2405]

Crap weather outside.

So used it as an excuse to do a bit of retail therapy.

Nankang Ns2r in 195/50 and 225/45 ordered.

An12 fittings arrived yesterday for the expansion tank for the charge cooler.

0.6 bar waste gate actuator ordered.

Manual boost Controller (for the time being) ordered.

Full set of discs all round and yellow stuff pads.

Also put my name down for one of Carolyn front brace's.

[Gaz2405]

One thing we noticed when the car was on the ramps at the weekend, was that even though its a FL, it didn't have the front lower brace fitted. I'm assuming this has been taken off at some point after potentially hitting something.

So to cure that I've ordered the Barbarian front brace which should be coming tomorrow.


Tonight I'm hoping to create a little more space in the engine bay for the cone filter as at the moment it's on a very short 45' bend sitting just above the rear subframe and very close to the rear box. Plan is to get some pipe work through to the rear wheel arch and have it in there., which could be a bit of a squeeze as I have my battery relocated onto the rear subframe too.

[Gaz2405]

Barbarian Brace arrived today, less than 24 hours after ordering it!

What surprised me was how light it was, got it fitted in just under an hour.

Got the air filter moved last night down into the back wheel arch where it will be fed air from the OE air feed.

[Gaz2405]

Spent the last couple of evenings mapping and logging runs and seem to have the map right where I want it, I'm seeing 10 psi all the way through spiking at 11psi, some may say its a little high and I may go for an EBC in the future. But for the time being I'm happy running the risk and I'm aware of the consequences.

A built engine would be my next logical step anyway and I'm currently on the look out for parts.

Struggling for time  to actually do any spannering this week, so juts dropped the car off for 4 new tyres, and discs and pads all round and to have the braided brake hoses fitted.

Gone for standard discs with yellow stuff pads and Nankang NS2R's ended up going to 195/50r15 and 225/45r16.

[Gaz2405]

Had a little trip out today in the pick up, to pick this little beauty up.



JP Cages rear Cage, looking to mould plastics around it (hopefully)

[thetyrant]

Had a little trip out today in the pick up, to pick this little beauty up.



JP Cages rear Cage, looking to mould plastics around it (hopefully)

Nice one, is this a standard item for them or did they have to custom build ?

Look forward to the pictures of install and how neat it fits etc.

Ian

[Gaz2405]

standard I believe, ebay bargain never fitted £250!

[Gaz2405]

So quick update on how the car is at the moment.

Managed to get the roll cage fitted in the last couple of days. (Pain in the arse doing it in the garage with crap everywhere!)

Manged to slide/force the seat belt plastics back into position and left the carpet in as the car's secondary purpose to to be pulled around Europe in the camper van to be used as transport whilst we're away so it's not 100%track focused.

Rest of the rear plastics and carpet on the bulk head have been removed.

Also had the car back from it's new tyres and brakes fitted. (Nankang NS2R, new discs all round and yelow stuff pads)

Also got the Barbarian front lower brace fitted.

The car handles so much better now, sharper turn in and feels so much more rigid.

Pleased with the car at the moment and have the map at a place where I'm not getting any knock flashes and now take the car out without the laptop plugged in. Just need to make a mount for the Commander.







Next just waiting on a cusco breast plate, a TRD front Upper and Carolyn's upper front brace too to come to see which one I want to keep hold of and the other will be coming up for sale.

[thetyrant]

I will have to pop down at some point for a nosey around the car as im still keen to turbo over winter if i dont go 2zz

Car looks awesome and my favourite colour, wish i had held out for a sable but this silver i got is decent enough i guess.

[househead]

Very nice work ... LOVE those seats!

[1979scotte]

I'm not sure you'll need all that bracing with a cage but it doesn't hurt to find out.

[Gaz2405]

I'm not sure you'll need all that bracing with a cage but it doesn't hurt to find out.

Yeah the cage was an impulse buy and wasn't really planning it yet hence rest of the bracing already in it's way.

Still, shouldn't do any harm.

[Carolyn]

I'm not sure you'll need all that bracing with a cage but it doesn't hurt to find out.

Yeah the cage was an impulse buy and wasn't really planning it yet hence rest of the bracing already in it's way.

Still, shouldn't do any harm.

I should think a front strut brace will still make a huge difference.  Stiffening up the cockpit will put more load on the front strut towers, It seems to me.

[1979scotte]

I'm not sure you'll need all that bracing with a cage but it doesn't hurt to find out.

Yeah the cage was an impulse buy and wasn't really planning it yet hence rest of the bracing already in it's way.

Still, shouldn't do any harm.

I should think a front strut brace will still make a huge difference.  Stiffening up the cockpit will put more load on the front strut towers, It seems to me.

I did say "ALL" I think a frut strut brace is a must.

[Gaz2405]

Quick update, cusco brace and TRD front brace have arrived.

Took the car to a local show at the weekend, a last minute decision as it was only 5 minutes away and the weather was looking OK.




The car attracted a lot of attention and was well received.

[Chilli Girl]

Your car looks great Gary. I'm not surprised it received interest.

[Gaz2405]

Out doing some testing tonight.

Downloaded a GPS tracking App to check 0-60 times.

Did about 5 launches (not full on launch, worried about the gearbox!) on a slight incline.

Had times of between 4.6 and 5.3. So pretty pleased.

App is called Drag Racer if anyone is interested. 


(obvioulsy taken the times wih a pinch of salt, but gives a good indication at least)

[Gaz2405]

So @Carolyn 's brace arrived today, but unfortunately didn't have time to fit as I had to run out to pick up some padlocks as we had a lovely visitor last night,luckily nothing taken,  but caught them on the CCTV  so padlocks going on the garden gates!

Thought I'd use the Roadster to nip out and get the locks and do some air temp logging whilst I was at it.

Ambient temp was around 19c.

Now I have a charge cooler set up with 19mm ID hoses, fiat cinq rad and bosch pump.

However, i was lazy with my head tank and it has AN6 bosses and my hoses finish in AN12 or AN16 can't remember off the top of my head, but I've essentially sized down with adaptors.  So I have all this lovely 19mm hose then strangle it when it gets to the header!



Anyway, cruising round I had temps of 22c.

Stopped at Screwfix to get my gear, was in there for about 15 mins came  back out and I'd had some heat soak up to 28c.

On boost at 10psi I was getting between 32c-42c, these were long pulls all the way through 1st, 2nd and 3rd.


Back cruising sitting at 24-26c.

I've already ordered some weld in bosses which match the hose ID, so that should help when on boost.

May look into getting a small fan for the charge cooler rad to help in traffic.

[thetyrant]

Hopefully removing bottle necks in pipework will help sort temps as does sound like is struggling on road so certainly will on track, a better/fatter core radiator might be needed as car coolant rads are designed to keep temps between 80-100c and work well for that but on a chargecooler your needing much lower temps so not as suitable, a fan on there would be good for traffic and post lapping cool down as well.

Keep up the good work and hopefully the low lifes don't bother you again!

[mr9]

How did you run the hoses down to the front? Just all'industria the current ones? Easy to fix?

[Gaz2405]

Hoses run down the centre of the tunnel with the other hoses, tight squeeze but just about fit.

[Gaz2405]

Just about to go in the dyno at RS Tuning in Leeds..... Let's see what it does or doesn't make 😂