Project Lex

[turbotalon1g]

progress is progress!

liking all that free swag

[URV8SUX]

So...... about that T56....... or what are you going to run?

[turbotalon1g]

So...... about that T56....... or what are you going to run?

He already has a CD009. Proven to hold 1000whp.

[Halon]

Yeah sticking with cd009 for now. T56 is a sweet setup but I'm already pretty deep into my cd009 setup so it will stay for now.

[Goat Blower]

Looking good B-man, makes me miss building motors a bit.

[Mark Leasure]

Your car is going to be an animal with the new motor! How much power are the rods good for?

[Halon]

They are quite strong. They have a very similar design to Carillo's, which used to be the go to rod choice for the big dogs (now turbo tuff is probably equally as common), which is interesting being that they are h-beam and people tend to think of h-beams as weak. There are guys running these at 1300hp and revving to 9-9.5k. Most of them run the upgraded arp625 bolts, however those are more to support the increase in rpm and less with power, but I'm sure they still help a little with power. I would say mine with the standard arp2000 bolts are probably comfortably safe to around 1200hp or so. They are such a great value being only like $100 more then the budget h-beams like Eagles, but significantly stronger, and significantly less expensive than the higher end rods like Carillo or the Turbo Tuffs. IMO these are the best value in rods out there, which is why I chose them.

The pistons are in a similar boat. They are not that expensive, but off the shelf they can be ordered with the stronger pin of you just order the Extreme Duty version. Geo from Real St ran these pistons at around 1300hp to the wheels thru an auto, so probably 1500hp at the crank. Again probably one of the best value off the shelf offerings.

I paid around $1300 for the piston rod combo. If you shop 2jz stuff, you'll see that is on the very low end of the cost spectrum for rod/piston combos. That's why it such a great value.

[Halon]

Old motor is out. New motor is in. New accent color is gold vein.

[Halon]

Updates from the shop. First I'll mention that so far this has probably been one of the best shop experiences I've ever had. I receive multiple messages from Brett/FenFab per week. Sometimes on a daily basis. Tells me what he's done, anything he ran into and almost always with a recommended solution to move forward. Lots of photos. This is a pretty small operation, just the owner with 1 employee that I know of, relatively unknown compared to the larger 2jz shops. But they have shined when it comes to communication and that's been great, especially when I seem to run into lack of that all too often. Hopefully when I show up to get the car, the in person quality matches the photos and everything I've experienced thus far, and hopefully don't have to take this statement back lol.

So anyways, here's where we're at. The motor is in obviously. He's fabbed up the new 1pc aluminum IC piping (2.5" hot side, 3" cold side), nice rolled lips, and powder coated texture black. Photos look on point! He made a new fuel tank top hat for the new dual 450 pump setup (1 always on, other turns on with AEM when needed). It'll bolt up to factory feed and return for now, but setup for running larger lines in the future. 1ZZ COP brackets he made and powder coated, all installed. Battery relocated to the trunk using a full sized SC300 battery. Fastened downed and properly mounted in a battery box. Cut-off switch installed for the track. It's ran through a spare taillight I bought for dirt cheap. The arm is removable so I can just run my original taillight fully functional for 99% of the time on the street. For track day all I do is swap in this other taillight and connect the push/pull arm. Exactly what I had requested, and he nailed it on the execution.

That's about it for now. Car is basically done and ready for initial fire up. He's trying to coordinate that with the remote tuner Vlad as a whole new base tune needs to be done, I highly doubt the car would fire up on the old tune. So hoping for some good news soon!

[A//// Guy]

Looks awesome! So glad its going smoothly!