richard33
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- Oct 25, 2009
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Ft Lauderdale,
Florida
Im going to start a build thread to keep track of the progress of my car over the years. I picked up this car in 2009. It was listed as having 70,000miles on the motor and 200,000+ miles on the shell. Well shortly after I purchased it for 3,800$ I found out that it was the original motor and tranny. Oh well.
It came with stock injectors, an ebay 16g, ETS street FMIC, SAFC, and a walbro 255. I picked up some 550s and went to the dyno to get it tuned on the SAFC .
It made 280whp @ 20lbs or so with a slipping clutch. I went to the track with this setup and went 14.2@105ish. I dont even remember its been so long ago.
I got rid of the rims that came with the car, picked up an ACT 2600pp with a 6 puck sprung clutch, DSMlink, 850s, AFPR, and a AEM wideband. Switched over to e85 and turned the boost up to 27-30lbs.
I also started taking weight out of the car like the ac,ps, and sound denoting stuff. Headed back to the track on bfg 225x15 drag radials and went 13.4@114 on e85. At this point I had a fun little street car. I was out driving the car a lot and driving it hard till it decided to crankwalk about 2 weeks after I put the new clutch in.
After that, I wanted to do a budget build with the 2g piston/1g rod 6 bolt build. In the end I decided to go with a 9:1 eagle/wiesco build thank god .
We got it running on the 16g with the built motor but it wasn't enough anymore. Why have a built motor and a small turbo?
So, I picked up my first hx35. I used the stock divided back housing with an ebay t3 open manifold. Didn't do a ton of research about the oiling unfortunately. Went to tune and at 25lbs it felt good, turned it up to 30lbs and pulled harder. Well I wanted to see what the turbo was capable of. Turned it all the way up to 40lbs and couldn't get good logs cause I was still spinning the tires in 4th to about 120mph. I did a couple pulls and that's all it took to blow that turbo since it was being fed from the head.
This is how bad the turbo was smoking when I pulled back into the shop the first night I had it on.
I work 6 months out of the year out of state so I left the car broken at home while I went to work. I came back and put another hx35 on the car. I went to the track for the first time with the turbo and had pretty good results. I picked up so QTPs for the front which helped a lot with the traction issue.
My first pass was 13.1@120 missing 2nd gear. I was pretty excited with the mph though and was thinking I was so close to 12s. I have never made a 12 sec pass with any car so this was a big deal . The night got a lot better for sure. My next pass I hit 2nd and went 11.9@125ish so I skipped right over the 12s all together. I ended the night with my best pass being 11.4@125. This was on about 27lbs. It turns out my ebay manifold was cracked and a leaky BOV so the boost wouldnt go up.
Headed back to the track the next week and had another personal best of 11.2@126
Changed the setup around a little bit. I added an evo3 intake manifold, 3in FMIC, tial BOV, and new piping
I then went to the dyno on the one walbro pump and 1600 injectors on e85. I made 527whp
I was out of fuel though at 33lbs so I added an bosch 044 inline to run more boost. I turned it up to 38lbs and went back to the track.
I new I had the power to run 10s and at this point no one had gone 10s with the hx35 yet. Well I was having some driver issues and it didnt happen tonight. I managed an 11.2@134.
I wasn't the first to run 10s with the hx35 but I still did it about a week later. I went 10.98@134
I never dynoed the car again on higher boost but was making some good power. I went back to the track one more time at couldn't run anything better than 11.0 but the mph was 135-138.
Then I found a great deal on a 7blade billet wheel hx40 so I went in that direction. Changed the whole setup again. I got a LSD for the tranny, JMF SMIM, dynatek arc2, L19s, SLS manifold and a new fuel setup.
I managed to get a carbon fiber hood and hatch too.
I thought I had figured out the oiling issue but I was wrong. I went to the track with this turbo and blew it the first pass. I then got another one and went to the dyno. Everything was good but turned it up to 40lbs again and snapped the shaft making 682whp.
So I got an AEM oil pressure gauge and started logging oil pressure after the restrictor and now I have it perfect. Went to the track and ran 10.93@139 and 11.0@140.
At this point I realized I was maxing out the QTPs. I would have to limit the boost for half the track to hook so it was killing my et. Plus with the LSD installed I still couldn't cut anything better than a 1.80 60ft. On top of all that, my clutch was slipping a little in 3rd too.
My choices were to get a twin disk or sell my 5speed tranny and go auto. I picked the auto swap. Another change in my setup and I ended up with the auto tranny with a IPT valvebody/shift kit, roadsurge shift box, rebuilt n/t throttle body by throttlebodies.com, and I switched to AEM EMS from DSMlink. Thats about where I'm at now. Im waiting on the shift box to come in so I can get the car running again and back to the track with the auto and some true slicks. Ill keep this updated as things happen. Here is the most current pic of the engine bay
It came with stock injectors, an ebay 16g, ETS street FMIC, SAFC, and a walbro 255. I picked up some 550s and went to the dyno to get it tuned on the SAFC .
It made 280whp @ 20lbs or so with a slipping clutch. I went to the track with this setup and went 14.2@105ish. I dont even remember its been so long ago.
I got rid of the rims that came with the car, picked up an ACT 2600pp with a 6 puck sprung clutch, DSMlink, 850s, AFPR, and a AEM wideband. Switched over to e85 and turned the boost up to 27-30lbs.
I also started taking weight out of the car like the ac,ps, and sound denoting stuff. Headed back to the track on bfg 225x15 drag radials and went 13.4@114 on e85. At this point I had a fun little street car. I was out driving the car a lot and driving it hard till it decided to crankwalk about 2 weeks after I put the new clutch in.
After that, I wanted to do a budget build with the 2g piston/1g rod 6 bolt build. In the end I decided to go with a 9:1 eagle/wiesco build thank god .
We got it running on the 16g with the built motor but it wasn't enough anymore. Why have a built motor and a small turbo?
So, I picked up my first hx35. I used the stock divided back housing with an ebay t3 open manifold. Didn't do a ton of research about the oiling unfortunately. Went to tune and at 25lbs it felt good, turned it up to 30lbs and pulled harder. Well I wanted to see what the turbo was capable of. Turned it all the way up to 40lbs and couldn't get good logs cause I was still spinning the tires in 4th to about 120mph. I did a couple pulls and that's all it took to blow that turbo since it was being fed from the head.
This is how bad the turbo was smoking when I pulled back into the shop the first night I had it on.
I work 6 months out of the year out of state so I left the car broken at home while I went to work. I came back and put another hx35 on the car. I went to the track for the first time with the turbo and had pretty good results. I picked up so QTPs for the front which helped a lot with the traction issue.
My first pass was 13.1@120 missing 2nd gear. I was pretty excited with the mph though and was thinking I was so close to 12s. I have never made a 12 sec pass with any car so this was a big deal . The night got a lot better for sure. My next pass I hit 2nd and went 11.9@125ish so I skipped right over the 12s all together. I ended the night with my best pass being 11.4@125. This was on about 27lbs. It turns out my ebay manifold was cracked and a leaky BOV so the boost wouldnt go up.
Headed back to the track the next week and had another personal best of 11.2@126
Changed the setup around a little bit. I added an evo3 intake manifold, 3in FMIC, tial BOV, and new piping
I then went to the dyno on the one walbro pump and 1600 injectors on e85. I made 527whp
I was out of fuel though at 33lbs so I added an bosch 044 inline to run more boost. I turned it up to 38lbs and went back to the track.
I new I had the power to run 10s and at this point no one had gone 10s with the hx35 yet. Well I was having some driver issues and it didnt happen tonight. I managed an 11.2@134.
I wasn't the first to run 10s with the hx35 but I still did it about a week later. I went 10.98@134
I never dynoed the car again on higher boost but was making some good power. I went back to the track one more time at couldn't run anything better than 11.0 but the mph was 135-138.
Then I found a great deal on a 7blade billet wheel hx40 so I went in that direction. Changed the whole setup again. I got a LSD for the tranny, JMF SMIM, dynatek arc2, L19s, SLS manifold and a new fuel setup.
I managed to get a carbon fiber hood and hatch too.
I thought I had figured out the oiling issue but I was wrong. I went to the track with this turbo and blew it the first pass. I then got another one and went to the dyno. Everything was good but turned it up to 40lbs again and snapped the shaft making 682whp.
So I got an AEM oil pressure gauge and started logging oil pressure after the restrictor and now I have it perfect. Went to the track and ran 10.93@139 and 11.0@140.
At this point I realized I was maxing out the QTPs. I would have to limit the boost for half the track to hook so it was killing my et. Plus with the LSD installed I still couldn't cut anything better than a 1.80 60ft. On top of all that, my clutch was slipping a little in 3rd too.
My choices were to get a twin disk or sell my 5speed tranny and go auto. I picked the auto swap. Another change in my setup and I ended up with the auto tranny with a IPT valvebody/shift kit, roadsurge shift box, rebuilt n/t throttle body by throttlebodies.com, and I switched to AEM EMS from DSMlink. Thats about where I'm at now. Im waiting on the shift box to come in so I can get the car running again and back to the track with the auto and some true slicks. Ill keep this updated as things happen. Here is the most current pic of the engine bay
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