My Car (engine Tuning)

[oh-so-swift]

Hi all. I am new to this forum. I used to have a skyline so i know what that feels like hehe (a gtr!)

Now days i prefer something a little different. So what do you get when you half the engine size of a skyline and drop the "R" from the badging?

a 1.3L GT ;-)

Well here are some piks of mine in the shop getting fitted with a larger turbo, front mount, dump pipe, cold air intake, fuel managment syste, dyno run and a few other things. I only posted a few piks because i dont know if people will be interedted seeing as how its not a skyline.

Heat absorbent wrapping on the oil and air piping.

High flow TD04 turbo (wrx)

Slim/thick core intercooler

All put back together. Dam its fun to drive!!

Ok so let me know what you think. I have put alot of hard work and effort into this project. It gained about 70-80 kilowats in the upgrading process and runs 140 kilowats at the wheels at 15psi (capable of 21 psi but i dont want it to fast) I havnt taken it to the 1/4 mile but i have ran it against a few of my friends cars and it does a great job.

Edited April 13, 2010 by oh-so-swift

[Birds]

Nice work and cool project. Would look a bazillion times better without the roof spoiler though

[oh-so-swift]

Nice work and cool project. Would look a bazillion times better without the roof spoiler though

Thanks for that, the roof spoiler is stock however.

[Birds]

I'm missing the part where you can get rid of it

Even the smallest increments make such a difference to performance in small cars. Even 10kw difference in a small hatchback like this is noticeable.

[oh-so-swift]

very true, 10 kilowat increase is very noticable in a light hatch back, so you can imagine a 75kilowat increase would be alot of fun. hehe

definatly a car that holds is place on the road and also rare. i always get people asking me "what is it"

lol

even when i had the skyline, i always wanted one of these, i just found them very fasinating.

[defari]

nice car bro, i dont mind quick little hatchbacks..

roof spoiler is stock? are you sure?

[oh-so-swift]

there is a stock spoiler, but not as large as the one in the pik. Its got a pretty nice stock kit

[mad082]

140kw? holy crap!!! (not being sarcastic there). that would be awesome fun.

[Nacho Vidal]

agreed that would be a damn fun little car! i would imagine it would be good on fuel too if your just doing city driving?!

[TRB-001]

kudos on the build mate,

brings me back to when i built a EFI turbocharged suzuki mightyboy.... light as and it had some decent power!

this looks impressive, wouldnt mind seeing more pics if u do have them... it doesnt matter its not a skyline so long as its in the right thread.

where abouts are u?

[oh-so-swift]

thanks guys, im very proud of it, im from NSW, the 140 klw is at 14 psi, sometimes i put it to 18psi, so i dont know how much more power that would make. Its is a very fun car to drive, i just dont like it when people mistake it for something else.

[Parag0n]

Post this on ausrotor.

[oh-so-swift]

Post this on ausrotor.

what is ausrotor?

[mad082]

rotor forum

[West]

Great,

I had one too, it was running Ebay manifold, my mate old sr20 turbo, evo VI front mount all done in my back yard and the bloody thing was flying though it was lag as fk lol, boost wont' kicks in until 4000rpm.

I kept up with an Evo VII with just 6psi untuned hahaha, 140kw sounds about right with that set up.

Oh i think you've got a rare Tom's adjustable spoiler.

Try Auststarletclub yet?

[oh-so-swift]

the photo in the display pik is not my starlet, the one in the post is.

The t25 is not the best choice for the starlet though (unless your running an engine conversion or something similar), its a little to big, if you had the td04 you would have had alot more fun in it hehe.

Its pretty quick, I also have a R32 GTR, i want to race against it! would be interesting.

(There is a very unhappy ferrari owner driving around heheheh!)

[West]

the photo in the display pik is not my starlet, the one in the post is.

The t25 is not the best choice for the starlet though (unless your running an engine conversion or something similar), its a little to big, if you had the td04 you would have had alot more fun in it hehe.

Its pretty quick, I also have a R32 GTR, i want to race against it! would be interesting.

(There is a very unhappy ferrari owner driving around heheheh!)

Nah, the T25 suits me just fine , it was a little project that i did for fun so i didnt care. Is your manifold a log manifold?

[oh-so-swift]

Nah, the T25 suits me just fine , it was a little project that i did for fun so i didnt care. Is your manifold a log manifold?

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my manifold has very short runners (to avoid lag) it works very well at about 3.5krpm. The power is minimal until then, but then it hits pretty hard. With the t25 i think the power doesnt hit hard until about 5.5krpm. Its just so easy to get more power out of it.

[Gunnar_11]

Nice build although I did have a chuckle when I read there wasa TD04 in there.

[oh-so-swift]

Nice build although I did have a chuckle when I read there wasa TD04 in there.

the kind of evil chuckle you have when you like something ?

or the kind of chuckle you have when you see a turbo mirage or a Camry with Lexux badging?