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+1 to Leon, mine is in there ( using.. shock/horror, a bit of garden pot :) )

Its the only non factory thing inside my car- the way I like it. Uncluttered.

Wait, it's wedged in by some pot you've grown in your garden?

Is that so you can pass the time waiting for the missus to come out of the shops?

Just ordered most of the bits I needed before the car goes off to get the F-con tuned... HKS EVC6 w/EasyWriter, F-con mounting brackets, and a couple of other bits and pieces.

If anyone else in Adelaide needs anything over from Japan, I'm going through Streeter and it'll be leaving in the next couple of weeks. Just PM me! :thumbsup:

Haha when is yours going in Theo?

I'm upgrading the suction pipe and putting the intake temp sender in, then setup the boost controller and connect the MAP sensor, and installing the wideband and feeding that back to the F-con. Finally, getting the Knock Defender in. May or may not hook up a mixture controller.

Car is finished.

My phone with all the pics on it died last night, and I need to get hold of a card reader before I can recover them from my SD card.

Ended up having a -3 line made up yesterday for the turbo, to simplify the install; which it did quite well.

After spending about 30 mins clocking the housings in, the turbo went in without issue. This is probably one of the more important jobs, and having the just removed turbo as a reference makes life very easy.

My suction pipe went straight in, but was slightly too close to the rocker cover where the indent for the blow off inlet is. I tweaked it a little, did the finish welding, and on it went.

The welding process straightened it up perfectly, to the point that even the mounting bolt on the resonance chamber on the rubber intake dropped perfectly in to position.

Had some issues with the welder, and we were running a little lean on argon, so my external welds ended up a little oxidised. Purged inner surface ended up perfect, so I wasn't too worried. Blasted, and powdercoated black; ugleh welding hidden forever!

Left the car last night with the finished turbo installed, actuator on (modded for a bit more preload), dump pipe, and O2 on, all heat shield (some modified) on, suction pipe on, all water, & oil lines plumbed (banjo opened up to 4mm), and gearbox mount bolted in for the last time. My mate bet me $50 that I would undo the bolts again today, but that was the last time they moved.

This morning after a bit of 4 y/o birthday action, I refitted tailshaft, ceramic coated midpipe, and fujitsubo back on. Rest of intake, new belts, new top rad hose, rad fan, shroud, and filled with coolant.

Used my super high tech cooling system bleeding kit, and about 40 mins later after getting as much air out as possible, and searching everywhere for potential leaks (NONE), I took it out for a spin.

First thoughts; much quieter than the old BB core, and some serious hiss as this one comes on boost. At first glance, it is making around 7psi at 2650-2750and all in at 3000rpm, so not as responsive as standard, but not terrible by any means. It will still stall against the brake, but it takes a bit more time, and it's just high enough that it won't come on boost at the 80-90km/h mark in 4th gear like it used to.

After driving it home the 30ish kays to my place, did another leak check (still none) in the time honoured tradition; it occurred to me that I hadn't tightened the hot side cast pipe to rubber joiner clamp up. Drop front of undertray, push hose all the way on and tighten clamp.

I wonder if that will make a difference?

Stay tuned.

Pics of ghetto garden mod?

lol. you know thats a bit hard atm. you know, being in a different hemisphere....

Just cut and shaped a bit of black plastic to the size of the vent, cut a hole in the middle for my gauge, ran some coarse sand paper over it to rough it up (textured), and re-sprayed it black. Was a quick solution, but has worked fine.

Leon- I did buy a car with a weed stash once.... not really interested in that kind of thing. But, 10 pts for the creative interpretation!

Dale- I love it when you talk dirty to me. Purge, oxidised, argon.... makes me feel more manly saying stuff like that!

Good to hear its back on the road. What boost? I take it same actuator? so 15/16 psi? The response sounds quite nice, and the best you could get to stock by the sounds of it.

Wouldn't yours be hooked up the same way?

No different to any other ECU solution really.

I have no o2 feedback, No knock feedback and mixture control is set by the tuner, in the map. e85ftw. :)

I also just ditched the boost controller for 27 psi of springs but I do obviously have the map sensor and air temp. (which I ran in the pipe before the throttle for accuracy.)

I'll have the O2 in there anyway, so may as well feed it back, then its up to the tuner what he wants to do with it.

If I want to run E85 I need multiple maps - it's not that plentiful over here in SA, and I do take it into the country. Can't to Adelaide to Melbourne on E85 ;)

We'll see how it goes. Everything will be in place for the tuner to use what he wants and ready for a bigger turbo later!

Ended up having a -3 line made up yesterday for the turbo, to simplify the install; which it did quite well.

What line are you referring to here Dale? Is it to replace the famous banjo - banjo oil feed line? If so I need some details.

Looking forward to more driving impressions after you've had time behind the wheel (& don't call me up & go "broom broom". lol).

Happy b'day to the young fella too :)

Just ordered most of the bits I needed before the car goes off to get the F-con tuned... HKS EVC6 w/EasyWriter, F-con mounting brackets, and a couple of other bits and pieces.

Stockpiling more stuff Ryan? I've never known a bloke to buy so much & install so little :P .

I'm sure this time it'll get done, right?

Lol, hope it goes together easy for you mate. Exciting times.

Stockpiling more stuff Ryan? I've never known a bloke to buy so much & install so little :P .

I'm sure this time it'll get done, right?

Lol, hope it goes together easy for you mate. Exciting times.

Funny, funny man Leon! :P

Nothing really stopping me putting that in... Got a lot in lately actually, pretty pleased with myself!

On that, I need to get this bloody wideband in... are people sleeving the wiring from the sensor to the gauge with some kind of thermal wrap? Something like this: http://www.designengineering.com/category/catalog/dei-cycle/line-sleeving/heat-sheath-aluminized-sleeving ?

Or is there a clear path for the wiring that stays far enough away from the exhaust?

There's no note in the instruction manual, I'm guessing I'm just over complicating things...

On that, I need to get this bloody wideband in... are people sleeving the wiring from the sensor to the gauge with some kind of thermal wrap? Something like this: http://www.designeng...inized-sleeving ?

Or is there a clear path for the wiring that stays far enough away from the exhaust?

There's no note in the instruction manual, I'm guessing I'm just over complicating things...

That stuff you linked looks pretty good. My wideband cable was long enough to go across to the drivers' side, then up against the firewall & back across thru the battery compartment. Where it passed anything remotely hot, I folded strips of the stick-on aluminium heat shield around the cable - the same stuff as I bought to stick above the dump pipe & cat etc. It's not overly pretty, but can't be seen anyway. I have a feeling that the cable it fairly robust & resilient to heat (within reason), but I didn't want to risk it melting. If you look at where the stock oxy sensor cable goes (close to turbo & manifold) you may not be too concerned about your new one.

Why would you put it in the stock location though, doesn't it need to be 20 inches down the pipe like the innovative ones?

Not sure what Ryan's doing, but mine is between dump & cat.

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