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Which one did you go with? The airwerks turbo's really are a very good deal.

If I crash badly enough that the 30cm cable between the camera and the battery is severed the last thing I'm going to be worrying about is losing video feed!!

Hardwired the pov and have never needed to think/worry about battery charge!

Also interested if you assumed incompressible flow due to the fairly low mach number.

CFX or Fluent? Can you ask your analyst which turbulence model he chose?

The slag would be my main concern, check thoroughly! http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb146/hr31rb26coupe/HR31%20track%20prep/atp_1p06_t4_slag.jpg

Awesome build so far! Is that an atp ts rear for the garrett - any quality issues?

The thermocouples are accurate to within a couple of degrees - far more accurate than required. Plugging the hole is easy using a bung. There are plenty of cheap logging options but I was using Innovate gear. The injectors tested within a couple percent before installing, and a second motor with a completely different set-up (not my car) had near on identical results with different logging gear. I would encourage any modifier to find out for themselves, cheap insurance and far better than relying on (untested) forum theory to tell you where to stick your highest flowing injector.

It's very easy to put together braided lines, the only issue as mentioned earlier is any stray wire messes up the thread in the fittings = chop the line and bin the fitting. You'll only do it once. Twin feed or single, either way I would be tuning with individual EGT. The cost is negligible and they're easily removed once the car is tuned. I have very large corrections, eg the largest trim is -4'ish% to +13% on one cylinder (not 6), depending on manifold pressure.

I know you explicity excluded the dry sump option but it's worth considering an external oil pump with wet sump. Cost effective, and you can avoid the ^^ guys getting emotional over your oil pump choice. This made me laugh.

The rb26 came with the car so this is the first motor I've built for it(and hoping to keep it that way). Powercruise would be nice but I'm not sure it'l be done by then... starting the understand the meaning of time poor Brings back memories of the test drive before I bought it lol.

I've got an rb26 sump modified for rwd if your interested. They can be a pain to modify due to steering rack clearance on the drivers side, and they tend to change shape if you don't bolt them to a block while welding.

They are a pain in the arse to flare but it can be done - there's no way you will get a proper double flare on them though.

As Lith said there are plenty of independent workshop tests floating around, but I'm sure they're all on the BW payroll.

Pretty far from the truth, the efr's are ~1k more than a standard garrett. And a different dump flange does not equal the entire hot side. FWIW the old journal bearing bw's matched the garrett ball bearing for response and power in back to back testing by full race.

Certainly worth the trip, I was fortunate enough to catch it a few years back and would rate it up there with driving the 'ring (in a golf ).

Sold.

Hey Matt, thanks mate. Hopefully once it's up and going you'll see it out and about a little more. As for a drive, we'll see...! Yeh they don't seem to be all that well known so they go pretty cheap at auction (which is where these ones came from). 50 bucks is a bargain though!! Yep the fullrace manifold is a nice piece of work, it's the 'power' version which has since been discontinued (larger runners than the 'response' manifold) - hopefully it works well on the rb30.

I've got a suede nardi tiller for sale in case anyone is interested? Too much dish for my seating position unfortunately -->FS Thread Link

Nardi 350mm suede steering wheel with horn button. It's the deep corn model I believe, black with red stitching. Condition: As new, limited use. Reason for sale: I need a non-dished wheel $350ono PM or email [email protected]

Garrett didn't make a t4 twin scroll exh housing for the gt35, the only place that sells them (afaik) is ATP and the quality is questionable. That combined with the housing being so large it obscures most of the core so access to oil and water lines is very limited led to me selling mine. Suggesting a gtx when initial results are less than promising might be leading the guy astray. OP, the t3 1.06 should make 400rwkw assuming everything comes together but there are a lot of interesting developments in this size range so it might pay to hang tight and watch the results starting to roll in (gt/gtx/efr/precision).

Cheers Snozzle. The nice nolathane diff mount gave up the ghost and was replaced by piece of EA which makes for a noisy ride. But at least I don't have to worry about dragging the diff along the ground again! Trial fitting the full race manifold with a gt35 t4 twin scroll 1.06 housing. The t4 ts housing was a very tight fit, minimal access to oil & water lines and only a few mm between the comp cover and front wastegate. So the Garrett was sold with the intention of replacing it with an s300sx but then Jeff @ full race advised the efr range was coming soon... I'm currently gathering the bits for a new engine using an rb30 short motor and the existing head as the 26 isn't in the best shape. After a lot of searching I finally have a clean rb30 crank with original/unmarked journals and a std size block. Lewis engines are putting together an external oil pump kit, which together with the accusump should make the oiling system pretty reliable. The plan is to run e85 so the hks rail and injectors have been sold and replaced with bosch 1600's and a billet rail. Rounding up the bits collected so far is the ati balancer. New pintle caps on the bosch injectors so they are direct fit Block and crank ready for the machinist OMP seats with Bride FX rails So I just need to collect a few more parts for the motor before it's sent to the engine builder, and decide on a turbo...

1900US plus shipping, duties etc makes it a 2400AU turbo... more if bought from a local reseller. Btw there are already results floating around. But this is the gtx thread.

^Was also going to mention it sounds like the tube is picking up vibration elsewhere. I'm interested to hear in more detail how you connected to the block? I would have thought using the normal knock sensor locations would be most appropriate where the bolt has reasonable penetration.