AWD Spyder Project Thread

[sleepydsm]

Did you make that goal?

[blageo23]

No I didnt reach it. Had to have a fitting rewelded. And the place I got my fittings from didn't tell me the fitting I got was out of stock until mid June. I was waiting 2weeks for it. I'm thinking Thursday I'll put in some work

[blageo23]

I was working on the car today when I looked at the Lower intercooler pipe. The thing was filled with oil. Removed it along with the intercooler and cleaned is all up. Got a lot more done too, made lines and installed the turbo. Could have finished it up today but I have misplaced all the clamps for my exhaust(dp vband and WG vbands) Here are some pics:

Oil drain and coolant lines


Coolant line off main water pipe. Also you can see where I had to grind the block so I could fit the rear coolant line


Coolant line with turbo in


And a couple more of turbo installed

[sleepydsm]

Looks good Mike!

[goodhart]

So what's left till it runs?

[blageo23]

The pulleys I just got tonight and to find my damn clamps I mentioned above. Then an oil change and start the bad boy up. Ill make it before proving grounds but probably wont make it. Still need a battery box and cut off switch to run legally. and Id probably get yelled at for not having a cage.

[CornFed2.4]

Curious but why did you run such a big turbo with a dsm housing. What's the hotside A/R? Not picking at you like I said just curious? Is it for spool? I'm wondering cause I wanna run a turbo that spools around 42-4500 and the pte turbos like the 6262 only go to .63A/R hotside but also heard the turbo loses efficiency from choking at higher boost.

Again just wondering. You have a 2.4 right?

[blageo23]

Its a .68a/r. I went with this turbo so simplicity. I had a FP3575 that blew and just wanted to swap a turbo not have to make new everything. Im not looking for a million HP (yet). And yes its a 2.4l

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, can't wait to see this running. I'm interested to see how that turbo does

[CornFed2.4]

Ok cool Im also interested to see what it does to. Im was just asking cause I want a my powerband from 4-8k as I dont plan on taking the revs farther than that.

But either way good job looks NICCCE!

[turbotalon1g]

Any updates? I'm looking at a 3575 and wondering how you liked it?
What was the upgrade from the 3575?

[blageo23]

No real update. Just got a cutoff switch and battery box in the mail yesterday. I really liked the 3575 but they have a common problem of the shaft snapping which happened to me. I still have the old 3575 if you want to buy it lol

[turbotalon1g]

I guess I'll pass a guy is selling one for a good price. but i should just go T4 and be done

[turbotalon1g]

FP just emailed me and said to pass on teh 3575 and do a 3586 in a T3 on a 2.3.

[blageo23]

Only reason I went with another FP is because I didnt want to change everything yet. I did not like dealing with FP one bit when I first blew the turbo.

Here are the new items:
Moroso Battery box


And a Flaming River cutoff switch

[blageo23]

Drove the car home from my sisters house today! It feels good to drive it again! Haven't got all up on it yet tho. It breaks up up top a bit, I think I need new plugs. I just hope it holds together for next weekend.

[95talonracer]

When are you getting it tuned?

[blageo23]

Took the car to BIR last weekend for Powercruise. It was a blast. Drove it there, beat the crap out of it and drove it back home with no real issues.

Today I ordered up new fuel lines. Once I get them I can install the dual fuel pump set up and then its tune time.

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, how was that event? I was highly skeptical of it, but from the pics and vids I've seen looks like a good time and some cheap track time.

[blageo23]

It was awesome. I went in hating spending the $110 entry fee with camping but It was a lot of fun. The burnout comp was awesome, A lot of fire and carnage. And driving around on the road coarse was sweet. Pretty much go as fast as you want around the corners and just gun it on the straights.