3 out of 4 that’s good going! Pays to do it right the first time
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Didn’t you drop rods in your build mate?
Yeah, I was using my car for occasional track days and generally giving it death at every opportunity, plus I got very interested in the idea of doing the work myself, from sourcing the parts, watching tutorials, buying special tools, learning techniques, actually really enjoyed the whole process and recommend anyone to have a go themselves, its not heart surgery and all the info you need is all over the net and you learn loads and save a fair share on labour.
Hi Sam I still think 300 would be OK but with a fairly high risk. At the end of the day I'm defo fitting the injectors and the way I look at it my standard turbo could be on the way out anyway at 140k.so buy fitting the hybrid it's future prothing it . And now I'm thinking map it to 290 even As long as its safe at that level then 2 years down the line fit rods and go more.The standard injectors max out around 270hp so you could stick with stock injectors if you were to go ahead with that set up but if you have a hybrid would be a bit of a waste running it at that power without utilising it’s full potential
If your car is just used for the occasional B road blast I would personally stick with your original idea and roll the dice on a stock engine and cap power at 300hp, the hybrid is the one I sold you and it’s in brilliant health with ported hotside, sounds like you’ll hv same set up as me apart from manifold and i squeezed 338hp from that bbt turbo, assuming your engine is in decent health, or who knows, could be better than mine, I would think 300 is very achievable
Good luck mate.
more like £211 then pretty likely to attracts 3% duty and 20% vat on topBill only sells the ported chinafold with his turbo package, you can but them from aliexpress for 150 + 50 postage then port it, get someone to port it. They crop up for sale every now and again for about 300-400. I'm seriously considering bills package ooo err, as it's essentially cost price.
Not the case stuart I do not. Manifold costs me the same as any other buyer.this is why I highlighted your excellent combination package in my thread, obviously you personally get some components at a discount and rightly so, but the normal guy on the street couldn't put the package together separately for the same price. there's the complications with the chinafold, the AET web site has two prices too one with an actuator and one without, those turbo-smart actuators and near on £200. There is no hiding buying these components from my wife for the sake of peace at home, I almost hope the head is beyond repair once I get it off.