It took me over 60 hours just to clean (it was REALLY dirty mostly on the outside) and another 150 to complete the rebuild. That includes a new custom wire harness, and engine management system with new manifold, injectors, turbo, exhaust, cams etc.

It took me 9 months but it has been worth it. I dyno'd it today. It is making 333HP @ 4500 and 377 ft/lb @ 4750. My turbo is too strong and there is a lot of boost creep beacuse the wastegate can't starve the turbo enough due to header design. We did not want to take it too much above 1.0 bar.

Norm was that 333 at the rear wheels?

I'm hoping to get mine to the dyno within 2 weeks.

Brian

Hi Brian,

Yes, that's at the rear wheels on the dyno.

Good luck with yours!

Hey Norm,

Something doesn't seem right... I'd expect your hp to peak at higher RPM given the cam you are using. Another question - is the # based on 1.0 bar boost?

When I dyno-ed mine last time, the dyno showed that I'm leaning out big time so we gave up @ 5700 rpm. My #s were 320hp @ 5700 and 300 ft-lb @ 5500 rpm using a .6 bar spring. I'd have thought that you'll have lots more. Maybe tuning needed now?

That's a bummer. I was expecting much more.

Patrick : are you using EFI?

Brian,

No- still on CIS. On the boost front, I should be a bit more careful - experience shown that ONLY on track with extended period of acceleration, my boost might creep to .85/.9 so on the dyno run, it could have been close though our run is very short each time.

On a separate note re:fueling: something good but bugs me is that my wide band O2 shows that I'm still running pig rich on full boost (that's good :)), and that's before I even turn on the Andial fuel enrichment & I only have a "standard" Euro fuel head/line without the mod. But what bugs me is that everyone else seem to be running lean on theirs????