Turbo Street Car Project - Page 4

**BB71Mopar** · 01-26-2009, 07:51 PM

Nice ride. I bet some one has the winter blues....

fogged10 · 01-26-2009, 08:42 PM

tim make sure you post a vid of it running~

Roy · 01-26-2009, 08:50 PM

Looks good man! Did you manage to get exhaust on it?

DOOM · 02-02-2009, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by fogged10

tim make sure you post a vid of it running~

I sure will, I hope to try to start this weekend. I will post when I light this thing up.

DOOM · 02-02-2009, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Roy

Looks good man! Did you manage to get exhaust on it?

I will start on getting the exhaust done this week. Right now its got a pipe turning down.

How's your car coming?

DOOM · 02-18-2009, 10:51 AM

got it running over this past weekend...needless to say there were a couple of issues....such as a leaky waterpump and also some other electrical issues.

hope to post a video and other pics once I get some of these issues resolved.

**orangejuiced86** · 02-18-2009, 02:37 PM

Why are you running with no intercooler? E85?

dpmcghee · 02-18-2009, 05:18 PM

Tim,

What color are those wheels? Is that what they call "Hyper-black" or "Black Chrome"? I'm looking for a set that color for another little car (jap car...03 Evo) I bought.

Dan

DOOM · 02-19-2009, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by dpmcghee

Tim,

What color are those wheels? Is that what they call "Hyper-black" or "Black Chrome"? I'm looking for a set that color for another little car (jap car...03 Evo) I bought.

Dan

Hey Dan,

Here is another pic of the wheels. The color is a graphite.

DOOM · 02-19-2009, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by orangejuiced86

Why are you running with no intercooler? E85?

I'm running 110 octane and the intercooler issue is something that is a sore spot with me. I have a hard time understanding how a air-air intercooler on a street car with next to no front air opening is going to do me any good. I have asked many people to show me inlet temps before and after and have seen no one that can prove that A/A Intercoolers will be that benficial. From what I learned with the Radial Car.....turbo tuning is nothing like blowers/NA or NOS. Timing and lean fuel conditions don't show big increases in HP....so my thought was.......if the intercooler only drops the inlet temp by lets say 25-30% (based on heat soak and worse case scenario since you have to tune this way for a street car) then it would not make sense. So, for me the benefit on an a/a cooler was just not worth it. I will do more testing once the car is up and running to see what the inlet temps are since I can compare it to lidio's inlets on his car and determine what to do later.

P.F.M · 02-20-2009, 10:42 AM

I cant give you before and after numbers with a turbo setup. But from a super charger at 17lbs of boost (S-trim) I was at 250-270 on the inlet temps. That is with no cooler,nos,meth nothing. Now with the turbo and a A/A up front I have not seen anything over 180. Most of the graphs are 161-172. I had a small cooling problem early untill I cut about 3-4" under the front bumper for more air flow. This made a huge difference. The car really never ran over 180-190 (rad temp) tops crusen around. 200 if i was stuck in rush hour traffic. M59 at rush hour sucks in the middle of Augest. I drive this car more that I race it. Its not as fast as the bigboyz on the board. But I'm happy with it. Not sure if this helps at all but I thought I would toss it out there for you.
Paul

ShadowFox · 02-20-2009, 01:21 PM

I to was wondering the same thing. Since my car a more a driver car then a race car, i didn't see it doing much good while sitting in traffic. I would still put one on unless, i see where it will not benefit from one. I think 25-40% decrease in temp would be worth it for a strret car, but i just don't see those numbers being possible without hacking up the front clip..

DOOM · 02-20-2009, 03:31 PM

well, I will have have solid data without a cooler since the XFI allows me to log inlet temp. I would also invite anyone that wants to see the results of dynoing this car to come by in person and watch what happens when I increase the timing at WOT. With a supercharger, every degree of timing is worth big power, but on a turbo car....you can literaly pull timing back to 0 during spool up and it still barely affects power. Look at the old NMRA SSO turbo cars of the day....the only way to get those cars to leave was to flood them with fuel since timing made no difference.

I plan to dyno it in April at Alternative Auto. If anyone is interested I will let you know the specific date when I lock it in.

P.F.M · 02-20-2009, 07:21 PM

No need I was just offering up some info. Its gonna be a bad bitch with what ever you do.

ShadowFox · 02-21-2009, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by DOOM

well, I will have have solid data without a cooler since the XFI allows me to log inlet temp. I would also invite anyone that wants to see the results of dynoing this car to come by in person and watch what happens when I increase the timing at WOT. With a supercharger, every degree of timing is worth big power, but on a turbo car....you can literaly pull timing back to 0 during spool up and it still barely affects power. Look at the old NMRA SSO turbo cars of the day....the only way to get those cars to leave was to flood them with fuel since timing made no difference.

I plan to dyno it in April at Alternative Auto. If anyone is interested I will let you know the specific date when I lock it in.

let me know i would like to check it out