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James's DJG Turbo Project


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Great job there.

 

That manifold looks the nuts :)

 

Cheers Luc! It certainly does look lovely, shame it's going to go all discoloured from heat really!

 

This thread makes me want to rip my twins off and get a single kit on. Nice work dude.

 

 

Doooo it! Dooooo it!! :D

Whats wrong with me then?! :(

 

Nothing darling, it's your black sheep american twin who won't stop banging hookers & being a massive c....

 

Very nice, are you Lee long lost brother! I wish I had the knowledge to work on my own car!

 

Haha no! Why do you say that? I look nothing like Robin Van Persie! :D

 

Looking very nice mate.

 

Cheers Claymondo! I'll make it back down to BW once it's done. Hopefully for the F&F meet!

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Cheers Luc! It certainly does look lovely, shame it's going to go all discoloured from heat really!

 

You won't see it a lot mate .... but you will feel its effect every time you touch the accelerator. :D

 

The manif in combination with the HKS 60mm external wastegate is a great combo. I have the PHR manif with the HKS 60mm external wastegate on my setup too.

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Just realised that, A- none of the jubilee clips are straight... OCD going into overdrive and I can't touch the car till I'm home @ the weekend..Ahhhhhh! :D B- Some of those pictures are so crap.. in fairness it's dark and they are done with a phone!

 

Must admit it was making my OCD twitch looking at them :D Great bit of work that :thumbs:

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The joys of building a car in a 1 day a week slot... Just end up trying to work quickly all the time! :D Thanks, need to get onto Ryan today, see when we can do this.

 

Just think they are going to be all at odd angles for a whole week :D Looking forward to seeing what this does as the precision Gen2 turbos are really impressive.

 

Best man for the job.

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Just think they are going to be all at odd angles for a whole week :D Looking forward to seeing what this does as the precision Gen2 turbos are really impressive.

 

Best man for the job.

 

It's not a Gen2... I researched it a lot, I'll dig out the dyno graphs I found later, for the street I couldn't see it making all that much difference. I'll find out once I have my own dynograph!

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Amazing work here, 3 work's day to read, love it ! a lot of change on the project, now we need to heard the single start !

 

Good luck

 

ps : Do you have a thread about your GT500

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It's done!

 

Took it for it's maiden test cruise today to check all was well, nothing appears to be awry.

 

Maybe mapping on Wednesday, but we'll see.

 

Some final progress pics:

 

Changed my front crank seal, and ran the tig along the crank sprocket:

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Fixed my constantly leaking clutch slave(thread was knackered but the bore itself was perfect), by welding on a -3 fitting for the braided line:

 

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Finally....! Apart from a few small bits..... It's done! I've driven it! It's loud! My word it sounds good, the manifold has a touch of the RPS manifold about it, real offbeat growl... love it!

 

Only took 3 different cars, 3 different turbo kits and 5 years of changing my mind to settle on this. Roll on mapping!

 

Got a few little bits to do still to tidy it up. (Weld water neck etc...)

 

Enjoy!

 

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Think dads might be on Wednesday aswell :).

 

Glad you're happy with it!

 

Do you think you made the right decision in the end ditching the big twins?

 

I do dearly love Steve's car... Twins look awesome as well! They are a bit more effort work wise... Couldn't build it on my drive as the engine has to come out.

 

I sold them as I'd quit my job(couldn't stand it any more!), and I was worried about money. I was very lucky to bag another one straight away, so I went ahead and bought another kit.

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