ordered me a new turbo

[[ant]]

well, im trying to be good and start new threads so ive made this one just saying i ordered that T04E Kit from ImportBitz, with hks t04e, hks high mount cast manifold & hks external wastegate. looks okay, bit rusty but im gona get compressor cover & exhaust housing shield re-polished and get manifold and maybe wastegate etc all repainted in some black engine paint or something to make it look neater.

just put deposit on it this week. but that means a couple of months to pay it off then gotta get an ECU sorted too so will be christmas time before im ready to get the whole lot all put in and set-up in one go. should be good though =] mite need to sell my GTR injectors and go straight to rx7 ones for the power the t04 will make.

also got an alloy 6 point cage for $100 that im gonna repaint black and pad up and bolt in around the end of the year too (not yet coz ive a few other things to tidy up/sort out before i can take it over pits, which itll need to be reregistered as a 2 seater with the cage bolted in).

but yeh, my car should be nice and jap by the end of the year with half stripped interior, cage, and high mount hks T04 =)

sorry if noone cares but felt like updatin plus didnt wana make the old thread any longer !

thats the only problem i guess .. i tend to just give litle updates or answer other peoples little queries here and there so i dont think thats worthy of seperate threads ... otherwise therell be too many little threads with like 3-4 replies only and nowhere to go!

but it would be good if some1 with a faster connection could go through and re-group the rest of the R30 thread into topics and delete things that aernt important !!

[YO880]

Do you mind if i ask how much you paid for the turbo? i am looking to get something similar, would be good to get a price guide

[Adam_RSX]

What is the cage for? An alloy bolt in is hardly going to do anything in an accident and you're not going to want to hit your head on it in a small collision, it will crack your skull

[[ant]]

YO880 - the kit cost me 1450 from ImportBitz incl delivery to perth. was 1250 before but they had hassles with importing and shipping etc before they got the turbo in so price went up a bit as a result from a couple of months ago (talked to another guy who was gonna buy it at lower price but it never arrived!).

Adam_RSX - i was just gonna get it coz i dont carry pple in the back anyway maybe once in a blue moon so i wasnt worried about losing the rear seat space, and i thought the cage would actually help if i ever did crash. why wont it, too soft? or will rip out coz its not gonna be welded in? and the main advantage i thought itd give would be to stiffen the chassis up a fair bit, since its pillarless and all. so i figured its basically like buying a rear strut brace but only costs 100$ plus is probably a fair bit stiffer

i was gonna get it properly installed and fully padded up with that foam stuff so as to make it legal, and id like to think that the padding on there would stop me cracking my skull?

in any case my nardi wheel will crack my skull too in a crash

[0HR-30T]

Lucky bugger! Wish I could find a half cage for $100!

[rsx84]

option 1,still has that hks to4 manifold and external waste gate FJ set up for $1250...

[[ant]]

dont think it has manifold? plus it has lots of useless shit with it that option 1 kit like cooler piping to fit a little stock type front mount, and you can see it retains the Vane style AFM and has a replacement ROM.

guess it works but id end up chucking out most of the crap anyway, piping ecu etc coz its all not that good for performance really.

but yeh i havent got the picture open atm but im pretty sure it doesnt have either manifold or wastegate, im sure it had something missing from it? *shrug* does look in good condition though

[Boof]

Do you mind if i ask how much you paid for the turbo? i am looking to get something similar, would be good to get a price guide

As an aside, i managed to get a HKS high mount manifold, HKS 32mm external wastegate and a KKK26 turbo thats meant to be able to produce 400-450ps and be efficient for up to 30psi of boost..I paid $1000 for it all

[[ant]]

thats a pretty good buy hey! wierd but good turbo too .. thats off like 911 GT2 porsches and Audi RS's and what not .. very euro turbo for the DR i didnt think they would make that much power tho? 400-450

my turbo came today i just collected it. all looks good. wastegate screamer pipe is rusted thru at the base of it but its only a thin bit of pipe neway, plus il have to ditch it the get a pipe made that goes into the new dump pipe. dunno if the turbo will make 400ps as it is atm though only has 0.4 a/r

[boj01]

I was looking to buy a GT 30/40 bolt on kit with wastegate and all the lines to bolt onto the FJ, complete with hi mount manifold for $2800. Was on a friends 2.6 Rodeo motor in his Gemini, but decided I'd need to upgrade ECU etc etc so gave it a miss. Car is for sale in Unique Cars next month so decided not to spend any more money on it!

[[ant]]

yeah its big upgrades when you go big turbo. probably need to splash out on forged pistons and o-ring block and stuff too when you do that.

but my ecu is already cactus with the hybrid cooler so i thought what the hell and got the turbo before someone else bought it! and then ill get ecu next and get it all in in one shot. saves some time and hassles later on.

up for sale already hey? i thought u just got it all retrimmed and nice? haha mine already owes me 7k, and thats before ~2k of turbo install and ECU .... and then it has around 3k worth of bodywork/rust to fix before next winter comes around ..

you could give me a reliant robin (the 3 wheel car from Mr Bean) and id still spend thousans trying to modify it though .. cant help myself haha

[Boof]

']thats a pretty good buy hey! wierd but good turbo too .. thats off like 911 GT2 porsches and Audi RS's and what not .. very euro turbo for the DR i didnt think they would make that much power tho? 400-450

my turbo came today i just collected it. all looks good. wastegate screamer pipe is rusted thru at the base of it but its only a thin bit of pipe neway, plus il have to ditch it the get a pipe made that goes into the new dump pipe. dunno if the turbo will make 400ps as it is atm though only has 0.4 a/r

Yeah its off of a porsche, but trust or signal japland has had a play with it so the wheels are different to the porsche variations...

Bah don't plumb it back!! Leave it to atmosphere son, external wastegates are rad!!

[boj01]

Yeah my Skyline owes about $18000, so look out for it in the for sale section very shortly!