The Black Beast
 

So here's my project. I got the car in Febuary from a kid selling it on MNSC. The car was mostly stock at the time, it just had a small 16g, 2g exhaust mani, a small Spearco FMIC, a boost gauge, and a K&N filter. It had a boost leak, and some crappy plugs and wires when I got it, so the first mod was to get rid of all the worthless Emissions crap, and throw in a decent set of plugs and wires. That cured the boost leak, and made it run better, but I wanted more.
So over the last few months, I had been pinching my pennies, and buying things whenever a deal came my way. I ended up getting a dual ball bearing GT3076 for the new turbo, a Tial 38mm wastegate a Magnus intake manifold, ported and jet coated 2g exhaust manifold, some 950cc FIC injectors, and a GM maf and translator. I came across a pretty good deal on a built motor, so I decided to pick it up. Once we got it torn apart, we found out the oil pump siezed, and spun all the main and rod bearings. Another suprise was awating us as well. I was told that the block nad Wiesco pistons and Eagle rods. To my suprise, the pistons weren't wiesco., They were JE pistons, so that made me happy. All the bottom end needed was a set of bearings, and a crank, so I got a used crank that was in good condition, and some ACL race bearings. While I was at MAP for the crank and bearings, I decided I'd throw some ARP head studs on it as well.
At this point, he only other thing I needed was an intercooler, some couplers, and an 02 housing. I just decided to go with an ebay FMIC, I figured it couldn't hurt to give it a try, and if something better comes along some day, it'll be easy enough to replace. For the o2 housing, I got a weldup kit from Punishment Racing, and I got all my couplers and clamps from ExtremePSI.com.
Last week, with the much appreciated help of Mark (TKRperformance) and his father, we tore out all my old crap and put in the new stuff. Everything went together relatively easy, considering the ammount of custom fab they had to do.
So, with all the talking out of the way, I'll get some pics up.

pic 1: the old setup
pic 2: the pile of new parts
pic 3: the GT3076
pic 4: the Magnus intake
pic 5: the FIC 950's
pic 6: the pile of old parts
pic 7: old parts, some re-used, some not
pic 8: the new motor on the stand, ready to go in
pic 9: another shot of the motor on the stand
pic 10: the motor is in!

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more pics
pic 1: the gt3076 in it's new home
pic 2: the o2 and wastegate
pic 3: closeup of o2
pic 4: FMIC installed
pic 5: Fan Mounted between FMIC and radiator
pic 6: Cold charge pipe and MAF during construction
pic 7: FMIC through the bumper
pic 8: everything in it's final place
pic 9: new coil pack mount
pic 10: another o2 and wastegate shot

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Ya I think I seen you on W River Road just a couple days ago, turning onto 85th. Assuming you were coming from the shop... Me and Derek both saw the car and wondered who it was. Looked real clean man.

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one more pic, the stock blowoff, that will be getting replaced soon enough.

Also, I forgot to mention the car had an ACT 2600 when I got it, but the disc was getting pretty worn, so we replaced that with a new one Mark had laying around. There's still a list of parts that I haven't gotten yet, but that'll all come in time. I'm gonna be getting a wideband pretty soon, a stiffer spring for the wastegate, DSMlink, and a built head. So far, I've got about 350 miles on it, and she purrs like a kitten. Just gotta get used to not having power steering anymore, but it's not so bad.

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Yeah, that was probably me. Thanks :)

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Ya we were at the 85th intersection in my Green Galant, and you were at the intersection about to turn onto 85th off W River Road. We both seen it and were like "DAMN that sucker is clean, but who the hell is it?"

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Yeah, there's a couple flaws with the body that I'll take care of this fall/winter. but overall, it's a really clean car. I got lucky when I found this one :)

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Turbo looks familiar ;)

Glad it went to a good home!

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Is this Swanny's old car?? Who did you buy it from?

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How about some pics of the whole car! This thing looks mean, good job man! Can't wait to see this thing in person!

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Looks awesome!! Looking forward to seeing it out! And yea some whole pics of the car would be cool. :)

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Looking Good.

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I've had it at 'bee's a couple times, and I'll have it there tonight. As requested, here's some pics of it. They're all from before I did anything to it, so it still has the stock fogs, and old intercooler.

That I know of, Swanny never owned it. I bought it from an asian kid named Joe Young.

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looks great! Can't wait to see it :)

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Hey I've seen you before, if that trailor behind your vehicle is your house than I've seen you before. I work with comcast and was doing a installation there and I saw you fixing your car. Nice ride man.

-Chu

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Yeah, that's my place. Thanks for all the compliments :)

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I got my custom 4" intake made and installed the K&N filter yesterday. That totally changed the sound of the car off boost, and made the turbo really sing. I love the way that anti-surge compressor cover sounds. Off boost, it has alot more throat now. I'll get pics of it up tomorrow if I get a chance to take some after work. I also threw on my old Hallman MBC, and turned up the boost. The thing definatly scoots alot better now that the turbo is actually working a little.

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I never new the 92's have the Talon Rear end. Unless you did that also. But yes that is not Swannys black 93 TSi AWD.

Nice clean 1g. How much was the new headlights?

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Nice seeing it today man! Looks great!

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One of the previous owners did the Talon front and rear swap. Those are the stock headlights. One is cracked and leaks, so I'm probably gonna end up getting a set of black housing headlights.

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I didn't have my camera with me, but I finally got around to replacing that stock BOV with one of these :D I love the way it sounds! I went with the silver one to match my wastegate.

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I just got the HKS 272's installed today with the help of Mark, and WOW! What a difference they made. I can feel that it pulls a little harder, and unlike the stock cams, it pulls hard all the way to redline. The turbo also is spooling a little sooner now too. Definatly a good purchase! Now all I need is to get my DSMlink installed, then bring it to DB and get it tuned.

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Awesome!

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Keep up the good work.

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You get DSMLink, and get a wideband, and you'll be able to tune it yourself with all the info on those forums, and hopefully just need to go on the dyno for some final tweaks. Link is so fun to work with!

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Awesome Kevin, can't wait to see what she puts down!

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Lookin good man.

Where did you get the 3 gauge vent piece at. Mine is fugly compaired to that.

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i would of help seeming i didn't go to work, but i have the stomach flu. Get a DNP exh. manifold and it will make it spool even better. Just remember the Duluth cruise with my ported 2g manifold then the next week with the DNP.

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I dunno, it was in the car when I got it. I've since sold it, considering I don't like having gauges there and I've got a 3 pod bezel that locates them under the radio head unit.
And Craig, it's ok that you didn't help, Mark and I banged it out in just over an hour and a half.

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that isn't bad at all now come over and put the 1gb rear end on my car.

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You got all the parts now?

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yeah mark's dumb ass finally found the wiring harness so i have everything good to go now.

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Looks good, I just picked up some 2G 17"s also. Maybe when I get a real job I'll one up you with a GT35R.

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Haha I plan on going 35R eventually, but that's probably a couple years out.

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sell you mine when i go bigger

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Just send it to FP for the HTA mod.

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they were nice and easy to go in. Glad it was nice out side sense ali car was down over the weekend

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No thanks Craig, when I go 35R, it's gonna be DBB

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Well the results are in! I just got home from DB Performance, and the car ended up making 299.2 hp and 255 tq. That was at a hair under 20 psi. We tried to go a bit higher, but it started knocking, and by the time Shane pulled enough timing, we were back under 300.
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...V/DSM/hptq.jpg
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...SM/hpboost.jpg
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g.../DSM/hpafr.jpg

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Not bad for a DD!! I love the black too.