I'm assuming your KW's still haven't arrived despite the MD's promise..?

 

No mate still waiting... they have a deadline of 31st of the month... thats it!

 

After alot of work today, these are the fruits of my labour. Was a little tricky at times working completely alone but after some swearing and some cut knuckles the motor finally came out.

Not a hard job by any means but not the easiest without another set of hands.

Now the task of cleaning and preping everything to go back in before stripping the motor for parts and then on to the new build.



Sorry for the cak fone pics but i wasnt about to get out the DSLR with dirty hands

 

Glad to see thing s moving along

I see you have a crate of Stellar to help you through

Did you lift the engine by the inlet manifold?

 

Bleedin hell !!

Well done Frayz

 

Yes Neil, its stronger and more balanced than any other way of doing it.

Most engine lift eyes have 1 M8 bolt, sometimes 2. The manifold is evenly fastened by no lest than 8 M8 bolts.

 

It is the recognised method of lifting them Neil

 

It's truly underway now!

 

Yeah mate, nuts deep now

 

good opertunity to detail the bay mate

 

As if there was any doubt that i wouldnt take full advantage of having the motor out

 

Got a bit of time this morning so started stripping the ancilleries off the 207 motor. These will all be going on the 257 motor in some way shape or form.

Spent the time cleaning everything as i came off, some larger stuff will be chemically cleaned and/or beadblasted and refurbished before going back on.

All the important stuff was tagged inc all hardware removed. Everything was then bagged and sealed.

Heres a few snaps, inc various stages of the stripping of the intake manifold.
(Also found out that my manifold had the JDM TGV'less bodies on them, but im still gonna fit the spec C intake.









Heres some parts to be done tomorrow

 

why the spec C intake?

 

Spec C manifold has longer runners with no TGVs and basically makes for a cleaner fit.

Heres a pic of the Spec C manifold vs my stock one

Spec C with long runners


STI V7 with TGV deletes

 

Just bitten the bullet and purchased a dustbin sized turbo

 

 

Gonna be a load of fabrication work getting it to fit but should be worth it

 

Keep the fatboy passenger seat for a demo

 

Lol, will be a while before either seat gets used again but at least now im excited that the finished product will deffo be worth the wait.

 

GT3076R.

 

Nice one frayz its coming along nicely thats the turbo im gonna go for with an .82 A/R exhaust housing, should be nice for 500 horses

 

Not sure it will make a genuine 500bhp, but according to all the Turbo suppliers it should do 530bhp.

A solid 450+ would be great, maybe 480... but we'll see how it goes.

Im actually really excited about getting it done now as i know its got a proper turbo going on it

 

Blooming Hell, is this thread still dragging on?

Surely you must have finished it by now.

Turbo looks HUGE, when would you expect it to start to spool?
500/500 hmmmm

 

the morning after the night before

 

Spool on a 2.5 with the 0.82 exhaust housing is commonly around 1bar by 3700rpm and 1.5bar by 4200rpm.
I have seen some setups that spool even quicker but i'll say this is about the worst it can be.

But then it will hold over 2 bar to the redline if required

Shouldnt be any real difference to my green on the 2ltr to be honest... just a shedload more grunt

 

Not much to show today except ive rebuilt my alternator inc some glass bead blasting, also cleaned the PAS pump and glas blasted the aux brackets.

All came up like new... which was nice

 

That looks great Frayz, will it last though or just go back to the way it was before after a while?

 

Is it finished yet?

 

frayz - will your engine cope with over 2 bar?

 

Should last a while if i keep it all clean Chris, but over time it will discolour. Im not too worried, just wanted it nice for when it all goes back together.