Project MIDTRBO (Page 14/35)
bmwguru JUL 15, 04:15 PM
I'm going to powdercoat it.....both the silver letters and the black plenum will both be powdercoated separately.
Dave
ALLTRBO JUL 15, 05:09 PM
Oh... sweet.
ALLTRBO JUL 16, 10:47 PM
More Lunesta post

My quick and dirty PS of future. The future is now, now is soon. Not red.







I have these waiting patiently protected for the car after paint
ALLTRBO JUL 22, 09:47 PM
Don't mind the Lunesta... It keeps me on top of things (sort-of) during the day so I can pay for this waste of money (and the mortgage, and bills, and food, etc. etc.).

I've got plans, and nothing will stop them if I have anything to say about it.
I'm REALLY wanting, going through withdrawals again. My new Camaro-boat is an AWESOME car, don't get me wrong, but I need a turbo go-kart once in a while too!

Someone ask me questions, I want to talk about it.
dobey JUL 22, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by ALLTRBO:
Someone ask me questions, I want to talk about it.



Is it done yet?
ALLTRBO JUL 22, 10:53 PM
Don't make me turn this thread around!
ALLTRBO JUL 29, 05:51 PM
I'm #4 in line for this front fascia. Here's Amida's latest progress on the prototype...



I'm not sure exactly how yet, but I'll mod* that a bit, too, for better airflow.
(*The word 'tweak' is officially played out. )

Hopefully Dave will have some pics soon, but he's really busy so I don't mind if it takes a bit. He's done a lot of work to the car recently, most of which isn't necessarily worth posting pics of (like the parking brake system, for example, it's now complete and functional). The really pretty bit will be the powdercoated intake, and I also want plenty of pics of the turbo bracket and the trunk-chop. The post-turbo exhaust will start soon, the main design and layout is finalized and agreed upon by all.

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bmwguru JUL 30, 02:44 PM
Our plenum came out very nice. To summarize this, Steven wanted the intake reversed so that the throttle body would be on the passenger side and lettering would face the correct direction. We had to cut the throttle body flange off, reshape the intake and TIG weld it back on to look like it came from the factory.
The powdercoating was done "in Haus" in a two stage setup. First, we prepped the plenum. Then we sprayed the lettering in "reflective chrome". Joey then taped off the letters (I would have lost my patience at this point), and we powdercoated the rest in a "wrinkle black".

Here are some pics:











we also have pics of the trunk that we cut.....





Dave
Pete Matos JUL 30, 02:58 PM
WOW man that looks VERY nice.. Nice tig job and blending of that manifold. Looks like it was born that way. SO a 3100 turbo? What are the specs on that setup? What kinda turbo is that and what do you think the power output will be once it is tuned up? VERY nice looking install and professional work there.... peace

Pete
ALLTRBO JUL 30, 05:45 PM
Hell yes! That looks GREAT!
The AFPR goes very nicely with it, too.
I'm going to have a set of valve covers painted Candy Plasma Blue when I get the car painted, and that will complete the look.
I just have to say it again. That looks AWESOME! I love it!

I "officially" designate SFI as "Single Fire Injection". (It actually means Sequential Fuel Injection, but the '730 ECU I'm using is a "batch fire" system, meaning that it fires all 6 injectors at once, instead of sequentially like the engine the plenum came from).

Pete, it's a '90 Turbo Grand Prix 3.1 bottom end with a 3100 top end (well, '01 3400 heads/lower intake and '02 3100 plenum, they're all the exact same except the plenum numbers).
All of the information is in this thread, but to sum it up at this point...
The turbo is a Borg/Warner S258 with a Garrett .82 a/r T3 turbine housing machined to fit.
Once it's fully tuned (it'll take a lot of time to get right!), I expect to make around 325-350whp on 12-15psi, it's hard to narrow it down further until I get a decent tune on it. I'll be building the water/air intercooler setup and doing all of the tuning.
Since I had to sell off all of my other toys, I'll be going to "Stage II" with it, and that's a built "3200" destroker bottom end based off of a 3500, which will nearly be a *direct* swap into the car from where it is now. The top end will be the same, but probably ported. With that bottom end and more supporting mods I'll run more boost, and even more boost than that on race gas. I won't disclose my power estimates for that, but it'll be very scary to say the least.

Thanks for the compliments. Dave and Joey and crew do very nice work. I'm very happy with it so far!


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'10 Camaro LT/RS, 312hp V6 6-speed
'88 Fiero GT - coming soon! - Project MIDTRBO

The rest of my cars are for sale
There's no replacement for turbo placement

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