Project "Stealthy" 400bhp or 500bhp (or something in between)
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26 April 2009, 12:03 PM
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Been having a bit of a fettle with the front bumper as it didn't quite fit right after fitting the FMIC, APS supply templates for what you have to cut out of the bumper which were fine around the main opening but in the fog light area they weren't enough (maybe the wagon bumper is slightly different), so it was out with the dremel and cut away 
The FMIC bar was also a nice place to mount a couple of my HID ballasts
Also trimmed of the opening for the FMIC with some edging trim and made a grille to give some protection for the FMIC
Without grille
With grille
The FMIC bar was also a nice place to mount a couple of my HID ballasts
Also trimmed of the opening for the FMIC with some edging trim and made a grille to give some protection for the FMIC
Without grille
With grille
26 April 2009, 01:11 PM
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26 April 2009, 04:23 PM
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I still want to chop an inch or so out of the bottom of my bumper where it blocks the air flow to the intercooler....
dunx
P.S. Loads of ambition, little talent !
dunx
P.S. Loads of ambition, little talent !
27 April 2009, 02:09 AM
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29 April 2009, 06:26 PM
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Nice job, your intercooler looks better than mine for sure. My 5-speedgearbox is still holding on at over 400ftlbs but the clutch slips so that might protect it a bit...
07 June 2009, 09:10 PM
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I want my car back 
Picked my car up from Zen yesterday after they had it for a month, it took a bit longer then expected as fitting a older type engine into a newage does bring up a few issues, also i had some other work done to it including fitting a PPG 5 speed helical gearset and a Helix uprated organic clutch so it's ready for the bigger turbo now
How does it drive
It drives very well, it has a slightly lumpy tickover but thats not a major problem, it still has my VF34 turbo on it at the moment and it's producing 346bhp & 345ft lbs, it's getting max boost of 1.65bar at around 3300rpm in 5th and the power seems a lot more progressive in it's delivery, on my old engine i would get a big kick from the turbo until around 6200rpm and then the power would just drop off but with this setup i still get a (not so big) kick but the power just continues until the redline of 7500rpm, looking at the dyno printout i have at the redline it's still producing 330bhp
Houston we have a problem
Unfortunately there are a couple of problems at the moment which hopefully Zen will be able to sort out
1st one is when your braking and dip the clutch the engine just wants to stall, it's doesn't stall all the time but the revs do get very low but if you dip the clutch without braking the revs will drop below normal tickover but build up straight away?
2nd is the engine light is on, Zen did fix this when i picked the car up but when i stopped for fuel and started the engine again it came back on
3rd is the cooling fans are turning on/off every few seconds
I'm sure these are just teething problems and Zen will be able to fix ASAP, can't wait to get hold of Eurekas turbo now and see what it goes like with that on
Picked my car up from Zen yesterday after they had it for a month, it took a bit longer then expected as fitting a older type engine into a newage does bring up a few issues, also i had some other work done to it including fitting a PPG 5 speed helical gearset and a Helix uprated organic clutch so it's ready for the bigger turbo now
How does it drive
It drives very well, it has a slightly lumpy tickover but thats not a major problem, it still has my VF34 turbo on it at the moment and it's producing 346bhp & 345ft lbs, it's getting max boost of 1.65bar at around 3300rpm in 5th and the power seems a lot more progressive in it's delivery, on my old engine i would get a big kick from the turbo until around 6200rpm and then the power would just drop off but with this setup i still get a (not so big) kick but the power just continues until the redline of 7500rpm, looking at the dyno printout i have at the redline it's still producing 330bhp
Houston we have a problem
Unfortunately there are a couple of problems at the moment which hopefully Zen will be able to sort out
1st one is when your braking and dip the clutch the engine just wants to stall, it's doesn't stall all the time but the revs do get very low but if you dip the clutch without braking the revs will drop below normal tickover but build up straight away?
2nd is the engine light is on, Zen did fix this when i picked the car up but when i stopped for fuel and started the engine again it came back on
3rd is the cooling fans are turning on/off every few seconds
I'm sure these are just teething problems and Zen will be able to fix ASAP, can't wait to get hold of Eurekas turbo now and see what it goes like with that on
Last edited by Granby; 07 June 2009 at 09:12 PM.
07 June 2009, 09:26 PM
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08 June 2009, 05:28 PM
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The standard ECU with Ecutek remap. Unfortunately it's not always easy to "knobble" the standard ECU into submission when all it wants to really do is try and be emmission friendlly and "warn" you of potential problems, which you usually know about because you deliberately unplugged XYZ or whatever.
08 June 2009, 06:16 PM
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The standard ECU with Ecutek remap. Unfortunately it's not always easy to "knobble" the standard ECU into submission when all it wants to really do is try and be emmission friendlly and "warn" you of potential problems, which you usually know about because you deliberately unplugged XYZ or whatever.
Last edited by Granby; 08 June 2009 at 06:19 PM.
09 June 2009, 08:07 PM
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