What have you done to your car today?

[Mad Mat]

Originally Posted by TheMAN

so it isn't, so what? just use the BA's crank pulley and accessories like you should when using a BG engine in a BA!

oh and if you're using the GTX engine, it's likely it has a short crank nose... I'll call anyone an idiot who really wants to use the early crankshaft because they have so many issues with the crank pulleys... swap the crank with a known good one with new bearings from a long crank nose BP and call it a day.... don't even mess with the pistons/rings because you're getting into "rebuild" territory then! with the long crank nose you can run any late BG or BA pulleys you want with little worries!

He got a GTR Edwin they have the long nose crank

[TheMAN]

exactly my point
which is why I said all he needs to do is swap the BA ancillaries over and it's all good... the BA's BP has updated pulley designs which is better anyway.... the BG was still using old style V belts until the GTR came along

[JDM323]

looked at my car wishing my parts would turn up that got held up by the flooding.

[oyeloo]

This happened

[Clean_Cookie]

Yesterday's effort was spent removing spark plugs from the 121. I attempted this last year and decided it was going to end badly so abandoned it. Took three hours to do a basic service... Heated engine up, pulled out leads, soaked in wd40 while changing oil etc. One came out easy, the others were properly stuck. More wd40. Two came out ok with a bit of muscle. The fourth I was sure was going to break something. Shattered the ceramic and had to use bamboo skewers to get the shards out before continuing LOL. Anyway lots of heat, muscle, patience etc got it out without too much damage. New plugs got smothered in oil and went in much better... Today I got my gearbox and rims from my green writeoff, so the 121 can get some new, slightly too big shoes until the teddies arrive.

[Cosmo Dude]

I received a package from Mfactory today. No point putting in a BPD if I can't get the power down.

[TheMAN]

good
where did it ship in from?

[Cosmo Dude]

Originally Posted by TheMAN

good
where did it ship in from?

Kowloon, Honkers
Took less time than the cell phone cover that also came from HK today.

[HAIGHIE]

recived the rest of my roof racks today very happy with them, also installed mu Injen CAI from ben

[TheMAN]

Originally Posted by Cosmo Dude

Kowloon, Honkers
Took less time than the cell phone cover that also came from HK today.

they didn't send you dimsum too? how dare they!

[Clean_Cookie]

Doubt it. As its almost time for a spring roll.

[TheMAN]

but chinese sausages comes first.... I heard they're quite small

[Clean_Cookie]

Aahh don't worry, you didn't fall for my joke.

[Mad Mat]

So yesterday i played a little with my vf10 turbo. I have three different front compressor manifolds, as shown below



This is the stock housing,



This is the one i bought originally to replace the stick housing BUT i cant use as two of the threads are stuffed on it, and they happen to be right where the wastegate bolts on.



And this is the new polished housing whish is JUST RIGHT



Can anyone tell the difference between the stock and the new housings??? There is two big differences

[project.r.racing]

the middle one has just had a enlarge pipe welded to it, and still has the normal inside edge diameter for stock afm to turbo pipe.

the lower one has the same, but at least the inner has be rounded/smoothed for better flow.

[TheMAN]

just rethread the holes or put in helicoils

[Mad Mat]

Originally Posted by project.r.racing

the middle one has just had a enlarge pipe welded to it, and still has the normal inside edge diameter for stock afm to turbo pipe.

the lower one has the same, but at least the inner has be rounded/smoothed for better flow.

Correct

But the one with the 3inch pipe welded to it had the centre/inner side of the housing smoothed out for better/less turbulent flow as well. It just wasn’t as nice a job...

Now just to bolt this bastard on haha
I also sent my bp05 BA3 head off for reconditioning. Should flow nice when if back and bolted on the bpt

Originally Posted by TheMAN

just rethread the holes or put in helicoils

i was going to do that but this new housing was $50.. could beet that

[TheMAN]

sounds like it does

you know for a big turbo like this, you should be using the BP26 head instead but use the BA3 cams, valves (unless you got the rare GTR valves), and lifters

[Mad Mat]

Originally Posted by TheMAN

sounds like it does

you know for a big turbo like this, you should be using the BP26 head instead but use the BA3 cams, valves (unless you got the rare GTR valves), and lifters

How hard would that be to do buy my self???

I do have a gtx head (actually i have two)

[Clean_Cookie]

It's still a pretty tiny turbo ed? Using the gtx head will help with spoolup correct?