Archer Fabrications
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- May 9, 2011
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Scottsdale,
Arizona
well its been quite a year, i was driving around in a 1995 subaru impreza outback (red) that i bought from my familys business just as something to get around because i had previously sold my 2008 GSX-R600 so i could move to Toronto canada to be with my girlfriend. anyway, i had bought this Subaru for $2400 and played around with it for a litle bit and my friend that was also an old co-worker at a resturant i worked at had this 1999 GSX all stock. he did beat the crap out of it and you could definitly tell. in april 2011 i had convinced him to sell it to me.. he was asking for $6000 and i thought hell, alright, so i put my subaru up for sale for 3900, and it sold pretty quick. i had saved up some money to meet close to his asking price, i offered him 5k pending an inspection. i take it to get an inspection at gregs japanese auto in lynnwood and they say the car has been beat on, the exhaust is aftermarket and has major restrictions such as the pipoe that connects to the cat went from 2.5 to 2" and the turbo was blown, needed timing belt, water pump, valve cover gasket, etc etc etc.. normal mantinance... they recomended that i do not buy the car. well i was very set on buying a DSM although i did not know much about it at the time. i called the dealer and asked how much it would cost for a new stock turbo and installation. they quoted me 1400 for the T-25 (HAHA
) and 800 labor adding up to a total of 2100 bucks. well i went back to my friends dad, the car was in his name and told him look its got all these things wrong with it its gonna cost me 2100 bucks to fix, to cut this already long story short. i offered him 3900 dollars and he accepted.
after a few months of driving stuff started to go wrong, i took the car to the previous owner from the guy i just bought this from, who happened to previously work for pina motorsports in renton and was an expert with these. he now is a part of ground vision performance. well he told me i was on my way to crank walk. and told me i should be saving up for a new motor. thats when i started to think.... LETS DO THIS THING....
started comming up with a build path... 14B turbo path idea ended up being the 16G which was the first turbo i bought for this upgrade for $250which i ended up selling the 16g for $400and throwing down an extra 600 bucks which ended up becoming what i finally decided on to be my PTE 6152 BB platform. we did a full build on a freshly machined 6 bolt from a 1992 GSX, i had major problems with my machine shop they messed up the bore two times and had to buy me 2 different 6 bolt blocks to finally get the .020 that my mahle pistons would fit.
after all that was figured out it was time to build. threw in scat rods with my mahle pistons and didnt take any shortcuts. the motor was finished at the end of november 2011
8 months later and 10,000 dollars i got my fully built 6 bolt motor, still running stock T-25 and 450 injectors for break in but in the next few days im onto my PTE 1000's and 6152 and DNP tubulatr manifold with tial 38mm wastegate. VRSF FMIC then im off to Tune!!
heres the build list:
Mod list:
Bolt Ons:
Precision SC6152 Dual Ball-Bearing Turbo with 4" S compressor cover
Hallman MBC
DNP Tubular Manifold
Tial 38mm waste gate on 1.2 bar spring
Tial Q 50mm BOV
VR-Speed Factory FMIC shortest route 28.5"x10"x3.5"
koyo Aluminium Radiator
Megan 3" Down pipe & 3" Exhaust
2g manifolds Intake Manifold
1g Throttlebody
Transmission & Drive Train:
ACT 2600 Solid 6 Puck Clutch
ACT Street Light Flywheel
Rear Viscous LSD
Motor:
6 bolt 2.0
Balance Shaft Eliminated
Mahle Forged Piston .020 Overbore
Scat Forged Rods
ACL Race Bearings (main and rod)
Polyurethane Motor Mounts
Felpro Perma Torque Head Gasket
Top line 3g Lifters
BC 272/272 Cams
ARP Studs (Head and Mains)
NEW OEM Front case Assembly, Oil Pump, Water pump, Timing Belt & all new OEM gaskets & Seals
Machining on Motor:
Glass bead block
hot tank block
magna-flux block
bore/hone/final wash + torque plate
hang pistons
micro polish crank
cam bearings r&r
balance rotating assembly
line hone mains
resurface block
resurface head
Drilled for ARPs
Valve Job
FUEL
Walbro 255HP
Precision 1000CC Injectors
Aeromotive A1000 Fuel pressure Regulator
Engine Management Electronics
95 Eprom ECU & DSMLink v3
Autometer 30Psi boost/vac Gauge
AEM Wide band EUGO
AEM 0-150PSI Oil pressure Gauge
Suspension
KYB struts
Stock Springs
StopTech Rotors w/ Hawk Pads
some pix:
more pix to come after next week with the new turbo and manifold install!
) and 800 labor adding up to a total of 2100 bucks. well i went back to my friends dad, the car was in his name and told him look its got all these things wrong with it its gonna cost me 2100 bucks to fix, to cut this already long story short. i offered him 3900 dollars and he accepted. after a few months of driving stuff started to go wrong, i took the car to the previous owner from the guy i just bought this from, who happened to previously work for pina motorsports in renton and was an expert with these. he now is a part of ground vision performance. well he told me i was on my way to crank walk. and told me i should be saving up for a new motor. thats when i started to think.... LETS DO THIS THING....
started comming up with a build path... 14B turbo path idea ended up being the 16G which was the first turbo i bought for this upgrade for $250which i ended up selling the 16g for $400and throwing down an extra 600 bucks which ended up becoming what i finally decided on to be my PTE 6152 BB platform. we did a full build on a freshly machined 6 bolt from a 1992 GSX, i had major problems with my machine shop they messed up the bore two times and had to buy me 2 different 6 bolt blocks to finally get the .020 that my mahle pistons would fit.
after all that was figured out it was time to build. threw in scat rods with my mahle pistons and didnt take any shortcuts. the motor was finished at the end of november 2011
8 months later and 10,000 dollars i got my fully built 6 bolt motor, still running stock T-25 and 450 injectors for break in but in the next few days im onto my PTE 1000's and 6152 and DNP tubulatr manifold with tial 38mm wastegate. VRSF FMIC then im off to Tune!!
heres the build list:
Mod list:
Bolt Ons:
Precision SC6152 Dual Ball-Bearing Turbo with 4" S compressor cover
Hallman MBC
DNP Tubular Manifold
Tial 38mm waste gate on 1.2 bar spring
Tial Q 50mm BOV
VR-Speed Factory FMIC shortest route 28.5"x10"x3.5"
koyo Aluminium Radiator
Megan 3" Down pipe & 3" Exhaust
2g manifolds Intake Manifold
1g Throttlebody
Transmission & Drive Train:
ACT 2600 Solid 6 Puck Clutch
ACT Street Light Flywheel
Rear Viscous LSD
Motor:
6 bolt 2.0
Balance Shaft Eliminated
Mahle Forged Piston .020 Overbore
Scat Forged Rods
ACL Race Bearings (main and rod)
Polyurethane Motor Mounts
Felpro Perma Torque Head Gasket
Top line 3g Lifters
BC 272/272 Cams
ARP Studs (Head and Mains)
NEW OEM Front case Assembly, Oil Pump, Water pump, Timing Belt & all new OEM gaskets & Seals
Machining on Motor:
Glass bead block
hot tank block
magna-flux block
bore/hone/final wash + torque plate
hang pistons
micro polish crank
cam bearings r&r
balance rotating assembly
line hone mains
resurface block
resurface head
Drilled for ARPs
Valve Job
FUEL
Walbro 255HP
Precision 1000CC Injectors
Aeromotive A1000 Fuel pressure Regulator
Engine Management Electronics
95 Eprom ECU & DSMLink v3
Autometer 30Psi boost/vac Gauge
AEM Wide band EUGO
AEM 0-150PSI Oil pressure Gauge
Suspension
KYB struts
Stock Springs
StopTech Rotors w/ Hawk Pads
some pix:
more pix to come after next week with the new turbo and manifold install!
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engine is still fine but the passenger side quarter panel and headlight housing and hood and bumper are a little banged up, and a hole in the FMIC. after it gets fixed ill have projectors and a carbon fiber hood and a newly painted OEM bumper 
