Looking very good mate, keep up the excellent work.

On a side note what heat wrap do you recomened using? Need to wrap my dp before it gets fitted.

I have used Thermo tec stuff in the past but Bill has some other stuff that while cheapish looks to be working... double wrap it though and I have read that wetting the stuff before fitting helps as it will go tighter when first warmed..

The stuff does tend to go loose after a time...

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Busy day... Bill welded up the downpipe and then I finished mocking the wastegate pipework up with a flexi this time...
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...while Bill was busy welding all my stuff up I cracked on putting his Ibiza back together...
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..and here it is prior to wrapping...
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So, tomorrow after wrapping the DP it will be a re-assembly job and hopefully turn of the key for close of play... not just for mine either as the Badgerwagon should be firing up tomorrow too :D

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Awesome! Simply, awesome!

Downpipe looks brilliant, some serious welding gone into that, and very tidy indeed. Almost wish I needed a custom DP making for mine, but I've just bought an XS one :p

So glad to see the badger wagon coming back to life too, such a legendary car. It's been years since I've seen it run at Combe :(
 
Long day.... absolutely knackered... I'll be glad to get back to work next week just to sit on my **** all day... lol

Anyhoo...

Fitted the turbo and manifold to my head after cleaning the face... fitted all the water pipes, oil feed and oil drain...
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...making sure the turbo bolts don't work loose this time by using Nord Lock washers and M10 bolts...
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I blew out the head bolt threads in the block with an airline then fitted the head... I am pretty sure I can do this blindfold now the number of times I have lifted a head on and off this week... fitted the timing belt and fitted the wrapped downpipe connecting up the lambda and EGT sensors...
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I added some extra heat shielding and of course re fitted the inner CV shield... spent the rest of the day just fitting everything back together and filled her full of fluids...
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...turned her over with the injectors unplugged a couple of times to get the oil circulated and she fired up next turn of the key once I had reconnected them... result!!! happy as larry.. first start is always a worry when the engine has had this much done but there is no rattles and she was idling nicely...

Phew!!... will be checking for leaks, topping up the fluids and refitting the driveshaft tomorrow then hopefully onto the dyno for a quick run in process (useful guide here Break In Secrets--How To Break In New Motorcycle and Car Engines For More Power) and a base set of runs on actuator pressure before I do a few miles on her... once I have a few miles under the belt I'll drop the oil and put some fresh fully synth in and then we can start tuning properly :)

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Great news mate well done. Although you had bad news earlier it seems youve pulled it out the bag!!

Cant wait to see how it drives, especially 400horses with good boost control!
 
The niggly rattle gone now?

Yes... :D

Although only ran for a very short while so see what happens tomorrow

Great news mate well done. Although you had bad news earlier it seems youve pulled it out the bag!!

Cant wait to see how it drives, especially 400horses with good boost control!

Thanks... was a relief I can tell you... won't be 400hp just yet... actuator pressure while I run her in (won't be long lol) but the TIAL seems to open at 1 bar atm... supposed to be a 0.8bar spring... will see what happens on the dyno...

<tuffty/>
 
Busy day... Bill welded up the downpipe and then I finished mocking the wastegate pipework up with a flexi this time...
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...while Bill was busy welding all my stuff up I cracked on putting his Ibiza back together...
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..and here it is prior to wrapping...
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So, tomorrow after wrapping the DP it will be a re-assembly job and hopefully turn of the key for close of play... not just for mine either as the Badgerwagon should be firing up tomorrow too :D

<tuffty/>
my pants went tight when i saw this..!! how much you reakon its cost you so far??
 
my pants went tight when i saw this..!! how much you reakon its cost you so far??

Some money.... tbh I have and I am not keeping count either... there isn't much left that hasn't been modified in some way and if I worked it all out I think I would be quite shocked...

I couldn't have been anywhere near this level without the help of Bill tbh... he has 'helped' me out on more than one occasion now and I owe him more than a few favours...

Eternally grateful to you big man...

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Well.. mixed bag today... got to the unit early to run the car to temp and see what leaks... good news... nothing was leaking... topped up all the fluids and finished the engine bay..
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Refitted the drive shaft and drove her up the road... turns out the spring in the TIAL puts actuator pressure at a tad over 0.5bar... humm... not sure thats going to be enough tbh but will roll with it for now..

Parked the car up and went off to get the Badgerwagon started up... Bill sorted a base map running std boost and flashed that in... went out and did a logging run and was getting a bar of boost tailing off a tad at the end...

Logging showed just over 246g/s (307hp) on 14ish psi with no timing pull... not really looked at the logs in full yet but Bill is going to look through them and look to add a bit more boost to the map..

However... on my return to the unit I noticed a bit of oil on the workshop floor where the car was stood from the mornings test drive.... booo... got her back on the ramp and there is oil around the back of the engine... thought it was the oil drain and where we joined the two bits together but Bill noticed it was wet with oil further up... turns out that its the oil feed pipe!!!... not the actual banjo joint (which would have been the obvious place) but where the braided hose screws to the banjo... double boooooo!!! just so you know where this is located its on the top of the turbo cartridge between the manifold and turbo around the back of the engine... :(

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I should be able to get to it by removing the TIP etc and the water pipe to remove it and tighten up but not feeling the love all things considered.. thats the last place I expected a leak and hasn't been moved in all the times I have done work on the car... lesson of course is to check EVERY nut, bolt and connection...

It could have been worse of course but still a pain regardless... gotta love cars!!

Other than that she drives fine :)

Happy New Year!!

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all i can say is woahhh, spent the last 5hours id say reading this from the start, only wanted some tips on the gt28 im fitting:yahoo:, alot of chopping and changing has gone on, but i respect you for how much patience youv had! i would of thrown it out as soon as turbo was hitting on transfer box :whistle2:
 
Hope you can get to that mate! Doubt you fancy pulling the head AGAIN!!

Happy new year... ;)
 
What a fun day!!! (sarcasm is a free service I offer)....

After a lot of swearing and removing of stuff and contorting myself into various shapes I managed to undo the oil feed from the top of the turbo... I think I can see what the problem is...
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Thankfully Bill had a spare on the shelf (he's good like that...)
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...but after spending what seemed like forever trying to get the thread started I managed to screw it in only to find the banjo bolt was too long... the old banjo was deeper than the new one and it bottomed out before it sealed so I took it off again :(

Started modifying the banjo (as it had the reducer in it) and managed to ****** that up royally!! not having a good start to the new year at all.... quick hunt around and found a different type of reducer and fitted that...
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Put the car back together and all was good... took her out for a quick test drive and parked her up inside the unit to see if any fluids escape.... there was a little oil puddle!!! ***!!!

Put the car back on to the ramp and had a look bearing in mind the engine was hot... doesn't appear to be coming from the oil feed at least but looks like the oil drain could be suspect... jeez!!

Left her on the ramp so I can take a look in the morning... cleaned stuff up so hopefully any freshly dropped oil will now be obvious where its from...

Nearly there!!!

<tuffty/>
 
Not having much luck with those flexi pipes :(
Looking forward to the results after mapping, will be a beast.
 
Found the oil leak....


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Sorry but that doesn't look like oil coming out of there..... Lol

Thats unreal, was that a new pipe?

Pat
 
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fecking, ******, damned, frigging..... mutha...... of a factory pipe!!! leaking new factory oil drain pipe on the crimp onto the flexi would you believe it?!?!?!?

***... cars eh! and duff supplied components... you gotta luv em.. Hmmmm
 
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Yet another 'fun' day... keyhole surgery should be a doddle after working on my car lol...

Found the oil leak.... it was the oil drain but not where we thought!!



Access to remove it was as usual very tight!! had to remove the drive shaft (again!), transfer box bracket and inner cv heatshield... access to the two bolts holding the drain on is better than on the previous turbo configuration but still a PITA!!
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Once off we smoke tested it and as you can from the video it was pouring smoke out not from the welded join but the OEM join!! tbh I think I must have crushed it at some point when having the head assembly on and off the engine while sorting clearances and stuff which of course is yet another lesson learned but in fairness I at least didn't have to take the head off this time to do it LOL..

Bill welded the new oil drain (its part of a K03 oil drain with part of my K04 oil drain welded to it)... smoke tested that and all was good..
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Fitting it back to the turbo was of course more 'fun'... but... I got it on there, filled up with oil again and ran the car up the road...

Apart from a moment where I thought it was leaking again (turned out to be an old stain from yesterday I hadn't cleaned up) all was good... got her back on the ramp and she was dry... Phew!!!

Drove her home tonight and all is well so far... will spend the week running her in then on the dyno next weekend :D

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Well its taken me three late nights to read all through every bit of this but it was worth it, You've had plenty of ups and downs and head on head off's but it looks like your finally getting there, Learnt a hell of a lot from this thread too! I'm moving back to the UK in May so may have to visit Bill for some work when i work out what i want lol, Not gonna be anywhere near what you've done in the slightest though lol, Inspired me all the same, Good work mate! :respekt:
 
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Leaks mate, are not for the win. That makes me glad I has those hoses made new when I did the PE :).

Nearly there now mate.
 
Ok... got onto the dyno today...

Started off with a few baseline runs to see where we were... worked out at 14ish psi she was putting out 280hp... not that it felt like that on the road... BT has the advantage of pulling to the redline of course over say a K04 that kinda runs out so feels must faster to drive as peak power was at pretty much redline not between 5 and 6k as is the case of a normal K04..

Anyhoo... as it turns out it would appear there is yet more work to do!! the mapping is not finished yet.. Bill is looking to smooth the boost out and get it all started sooner (if possible)... I plan to do a bit of logging with my MBC fitted and see where she starts coming on boost as a baseline for tweaking the N75 requests...

Upshot of all this is I didn't hit 400hp like I was hoping for however on reviewing previous runs of my car with its previous states of hardware and tune, its actually progress...

When I was running the same turbo as Lee and Andy123 is using I was struggling to get to 340hp... they both got just over 370hp but both cars have after market inlet manifolds, better designed exhaust manifolds than mine and are now running WMI...

I was using a std small port inlet, small port head and std TB

I then rebuilt the turbo using the full size GT3071r turbine wheel but on the same internally gated hotside... changed to the R32 TB and I was getting 350hp as a one off best run but 345hp more consistently...

Trial fitted an SEM inlet with my R32 TB and a couple of tweaks to the map got 374hp (similar power to Lee and Andy)

Current setup is back on the std small port inlet, std 60mm TB but with the external wastegate and better flowing hotside... this netted me 384hp...

What does this mean in reality and looking at the previous graphs...
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First results are the baseline... std small port inlet, R32 TB, full size GT3071r, T25 internally gated
Second results... SEM large port inlet, R32 TB, full size GT3071r, T25 internally gated
Third results... std small port inlet, std 60mm TB, full size GT3071r, T3 externally gated

Based on these kind of results fitting an SEM would get me the 400hp I am looking for it would appear...

As I said though... mapping is not finished, once done it should see the spool getting started a little earlier and torque holding a bit longer while tweaking the top end power a bit too...

To put a bit more perspective on this... here are some graphs comparing mine to the Ibiza we built a little while back.. the Ibiza did make a bit more power than the graph I am using but it had everything turned up to 11 so this one is a bit more realistic as a comparison...
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The spec of the Ibiza was a bit better than mine... 83mm overbore, ported small port head (larger exhaust ports than mine), SEM and tubular exhaust manifold...

As you can see though it makes better use of the boost top end which has to be the SEM helping top end flow... low end torque etc could well be just mapping and I have some work to do there but it at least shows that mine is not too far away and where my current limitations are...

A little more to do then... was initially cheesed off not to hit 400hp but when I had thought it through and compared to other cars we have done then I am a lot happier..

Fact of the matter is the way she drives is so much more different to what I remember... power delivery is smooth and the way she pulls in third is actual scary...

I have a few other odds and sods to try... I still have WMI to fit at some point too...

This pretty much concludes this round of modifications but I will of course update the thread once we have sorted the mapping out and of course if there any further developments such as inlet manifolds etc...

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Nice results.

This mapping business really is time consuming isnt it.

Do you think youl make an inlet mani like andrews using agu runners?

Mapping can be yes... plus I am planning to do a bit myself too as I want to find the right balance between off boost economy and on boost performance...

I do plan to make an inlet like Andrews... I have already bought an AEB inlet (large port like the AGU and I think Andrew used AEB runners on his) and will look to sort the rest out once I have got over this lot :)

<tuffty/>
 
Mine was a AEB cut to the same length as the S3 manifold then added length to the runner using a thick backing plate and using the Jenvey trumpets so it adds 40mm to the runners over the standard inlet

With the inlet fitted it does want to rev a lot more than it did and have see 20+ Bhp on the liquid
 
Casual weekend (I say casual... there was of course some Ibiza dynoing to do :eyebrows:... nothing to report on that yet though as she is still being run in)

After driving the car for a couple of weeks now she is feeling much better than before and nearly due an oil change to proper stuff which I might do next weekend if I get 5 mins..

Anyhoo... have always had a bit of a hesitancy issue which I believed to be DV related... so decided to take it apart for a clean and service... while I was at it I also relocated it back to the cold side as this is where I had originally fitted it... I moved it a while back to try and fix a cold start issue but since fitting the 60mm TB back on its never been an issue... I also put the white spring back in (was using the red one for a while)... seems much better on part throttle and seems to hold boost a bit better... maybe placebo but certainly feels more urgent now...
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Then I cracked on with the earthing mods (as detailed here Waks Wide Web)

Bought the bits from eBay for about a tenner...
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Decided all I was going to do was run an earth from the battery then take one to the cam cover earth and one to the throttle body (for no particular reason)

Worth noting that pretty much all the sensors on the engine have their own earth which is common in the loom and runs to underneath the battery tray to an earthing point fed from the battery so earthing the crap out of the engine is a little pointless but its certainly worth doing the cam cover one as I have seem quite a bit of volts drop to the coil packs on some cars...

Cut the cable to length and crimped the terminals using heatshrink to insulate
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Used 7mm I/D convoluted trunking to prevent chafing
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Main earth coming from the battery..
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Attached them to where the engine hoist bracket used to be... in Waks guide you bolt them to the bracket itself but the AEB head I bought didn't have it and I have no real need to fit one back on as yet so I used an M6 bolt to bolt through one of the M8 holes for fixing the bracket too... ran one lead from there to the lower TB fixing bolt...
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Ran another lead to the cam cover and bolted it to the existing earth point (keeping the original lead there too)
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As for what difference it makes? not sure tbh... not driven the car enough to see but... the car arguably feels smoother part throttle which is good...

Given the theory behind this and providing you buy the parts cheap enough from eBay or somewhere then its a worthwhile thing to do IMO... I certainly would be paying the £40-£60 an 'earthing' kit costs though... the most worthwhile run you can do is one straight from the battery to the cam cover if you do any at all... the rest would give negligible improvements I think... I will have a look at a wiring diagram sometime to check the throttle body one... pretty sure its got its own earths and that its not earthed through the case but if it is earthed back through the case too then the TB earth strap has some merit...

Next on the agenda will be finishing off the mapping once I have changed the oil as I don't fancy doing any more dyno runs with the stuff thats in there really... and of course try and find an AEB inlet manifold from a more trustworthy source :)

<tuffty/>
 
Great stuff as always.

On the right hand side of the rocker you have something unplugged, what is it? VVT?

Pat
 
;) anyway get a move on as I'm waiting to see the out come of all your hard work!

Pat
 

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