R33 Sii - My Gt30 Upgrade Is Done. Lots Of Pics

[The Mafia]

Hi guys. Me and my fabricator friend finally have installed the Garrett GT30 with .63 (vg30) housing.

Here are a heap of pics of our progress.

Car on the hoist..

The dump that I love...

All the old bits come off..

The GT30..

Removing the old turbo

Turbo Comparison

Looks like I've been running some fuel additives.....

This is my mates own car.. lol I rode in the back for obvious reasons (he's getting his seats covered)

The Q45 AFM is a LOT bigger than the standard one eh?

My mate Tiging a new nossle on the GT30 comp cover

Edited October 2, 2005 by The Mafia

[The Mafia]

Bit blurry but, where is my turbo?!! lol

This is under my mates bonnet.

The GT30 on its new home, adding the oil and water lines. This is about the hardest part!! They are bastards to organise\make\get on

New pod Divider.. lol well the template

Turbo on and a few adjustments

A nicely wrapped dump pipe. f**k I love that dump. Its a work of art. (my mate made it from a pair or flanges and some bends). The thermal wrap is wired on.

The dump is bolted on and stray lines hooked up

The hole in the Divider is cut (with a plasma cutter.. fark they are cool..can blow holes in all sorts of shit)

Cleaning up the sharp edges..

Getting there...

Edited October 2, 2005 by The Mafia

[The Mafia]

Tightening a few hose clamps

ok, heres the finished product.

ok...I have a few problems....

I have set the Q41 (90mm) option in the PFC but the car won't idle.. I have tried adding and taking fuel and ignition from the load point that the car idles at but no luck

WOuld anyone have any ideas whys wrong? I'm going to get the car to a tuner very soon, but it might take a little while... Tuner is booked.

Checked for vacuum leaks, loose shit and just general stuff and everything is in order... so yeah, I'm stumped.. Are there any settings that I coukldadjust that I may have missed?

anyway... If anyone has any questions at all about this upgrade, ask away, I'll answer my best.

This took us 2 full days.

Edited October 2, 2005 by The Mafia

[CrazyMan]

all looks bloody nice mafia. I call shotgun for when its tuned lad. cant wait till i can join the import crew again... now, where was that high paying job advertised?

[paulr33]

nice pics and nice install. if you rev it a little when the car starts does it have stable idle with foot slightly on the pedel?

[CrazyMan]

i'll take the liberty of replying for mafia seeing that he's offline now.

yes, if you have slight throttle opening, it 'idles' normally.

[teazn_r33]

i see the plenum but have never seen one like that before where did you get that and how does it work and improve for power

[7yphon]

Yer I would also Like to know as my car is off the road atm and I am doing stuff to it

[The Mafia]

i see the plenum but have never seen one like that before where did you get that and how does it work and improve for power

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

thats on my mates car, and he made that himself. I guess 2 TB's flow more than one.

oh and Paul, a BIG THANKS for the your website! I used it to help me do my car.

as Crazymn said, car goes fine when throttle above 1,000rpm... but won't idle

damn thing ..

Edited October 2, 2005 by The Mafia

[paulr33]

no problems dude. glad to be a help, if theres shit wrong or any info you can think to add let us know and ill put it up. nothing wrong than have info thats slightly out or wrong. did you use the q45 wiring ok or already knew how to do it? have u considered doing factory reset of the pfc and then let it do its base idle crap to try and learn it again? if your getting it tuned it may not be a bad idea to have the stock maps loaded. if you do reset it, be sure to set q45 and boost controller kit off before you crank it over the first time. let us know if you try this and it works

[Robo's]

Some very nice pictures and was great to compare as i just put a 2535 on yesterday. The front of that turbo is huge compared to the stocky.

One question, are you only using the little whole in the air box to get your cold air?

[The Mafia]

no problems dude. glad to be a help, if theres shit wrong or any info you can think to add let us know and ill put it up. nothing wrong than have info thats slightly out or wrong. did you use the q45 wiring ok or already knew how to do it? have u considered doing factory reset of the pfc and then let it do its base idle crap to try and learn it again? if your getting it tuned it may not be a  bad idea to have the stock maps loaded. if you do reset it, be sure to set q45 and boost controller kit off before you crank it over the first time. let us know if you try this and it works

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I am going to get back to you about the AFM wiring, as yours is a little confusing and the example rb25 one is completely different to mine.. maybe cause its a SII ? Not sure but the wire colours are different. I'll get the exact wiring for you a little later on.

lol no biggy, jus a couple of blown fuses..

I don't really want to reset the ecu... after that tune they did... But I guess its pretty useless now hey?

maybe I should plot it out in an excel spreat sheet before I reset it for other people to use?

its a 210 rwkw tune, awesome power. Just needs the out of boost points tuned as per your comments in the other thread.

Some very nice pictures and was great to compare as i just put a 2535 on yesterday.  The front of that turbo is huge compared to the stocky. 

One question, are you only using the little whole in the air box to get your cold air?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

lol done with my camera phone (v3 razr)

yeah, there is only the little "factory intercooler plumbing hole" in the "air box area" at the moment, I'll have to find a way to route some air to it.

I will admit, it doesn't sound as good as my other setup (stock turbo, with stainless turbo duct and shield etc) that spooling sound was sweet

Edited October 2, 2005 by The Mafia

[TommO]

Good stuff, i've been following your upgrade path posts for a while now in this area.

Will look forward to hearing how it goes after the tune I'm jealous!

[Al]

Nice work, and great report .

Are you using factory injectorsand rail? If not, what are you using?

Is it possible that at idle the q45 airflow meter is not generating enough voltage for the ecu to recognise?

Give us an update on the final result, once it has been tuned.

[paulr33]

ok let us know the colours or what not. the rb25 wiring should be the same, i dont think it was different for series 1 or 2, i know it had differnet coulour afm label, pink vs green. didnt realise wiring was different. let us know what you have, ill check mine and then update the doco

[Cubes]

I will admit, it doesn't sound as good as my other setup (stock turbo, with stainless turbo duct and shield etc) that spooling sound was sweet

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've recently moved to a turbo that doesn't have the surge ring or what ever it is directly in front of the compressor wheel as the RB20 and RB25 turbo's do.

This turbo is so so quiet, I can only hear a slightly whistle as its on boost.

The old stock turbo was damn noisy, big loud whooshing sucking noises.

Looks awesome.. Be sure to inform us of the spool characteristics.

Maybe take a vid of how she spools under general driving.

[Robo's]

yeah, there is only the little "factory intercooler plumbing hole" in the "air box area" at the moment, I'll have to find a way to route some air to it.

I will admit, it doesn't sound as good as my other setup (stock turbo, with stainless turbo duct and shield etc) that spooling sound was sweet

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Why dont you bore out your factory intercooler hole. You'd want this bigger than your turbo inlet.

[paulr33]

good son of rajab, ive just saw the size of your fmic, geez thats a big one. what size is the core?

[SDEWY5]

lol thats awesome, good to see safety is priority no.1...whos the bloke wearing the thongs in the workshop? wicked project there, should go nicely once tuned.

[mass_iv]

well done mate, looks great, let us know how much power it makes when tuned, im interested to compare to my setup. oh an i like the dump too!!!!!