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Old 04-08-12, 02:10 PM
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this is just epic. Mad props to you. we'll be looking forward to this
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Oh damn! Great job. Nice pics and time line.
Old 04-08-12, 03:20 PM
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so sick, im jelly
Old 04-08-12, 03:53 PM
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damn! you have one of the craziest builds.
Old 04-08-12, 03:53 PM
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Dayum sick car and rides. Keep it up man
Old 04-08-12, 06:17 PM
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OMG!!!!! AMAZING!!!!..... i must be second nature to you to build 2jz now.........
Old 04-08-12, 09:14 PM
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Looking good Jeff, hey don't forget to shoot me an email tomorrow with that shipping quote!

Keep it up man, manifold is turning out awesome and that turbo is sooo sick!!!!!
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What type of wheels are those on the IS?
Old 04-08-12, 11:35 PM
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Old 04-09-12, 12:07 AM
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love everything about this!
Old 04-09-12, 01:37 AM
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Originally Posted by YviE
I bet he has spent a lot too!
Yes very true...hahah.

Originally Posted by cruisinvip
Keep it up Jeff,
How did the galant pull on you in that video?
It was my friends car. He builds some pretty serious cars, and has his own shop. He specializes in DSM platform as well as EVO's. He has some pretty hilarious sleepers. He put a 500hp 4g63 into a stripped out Mitsubishi Colt lol! In this video, I was still a noob to tuning on E85 so I was running super conservative timing. Plus I usually have a car full of people because everyone wants to ride along. I need to run him again in my grey GS

Originally Posted by 99 GS3
Nice background details. Since your moving to twin scroll, have you put any thought into trying the quickspool valve? The concept is interesting, I haven't seen anyone have one in person yet, but there are a few out on the forums with seemingly good results..
I know it helps spool, but I'm just wondering if that spool valve will become a tremendous restriction at high power levels. I'm shooting for 4 digits HP on this car.

Originally Posted by GS4_Fiend
How did you get flames out of your tail?
On a lot of heavily modified turbo cars, there is occasionally a flame out when you suddenly let off the throttle following a full boost pull. When you let off the throttle plate, the MAF or MAP sensors and such take a split second to catch up. So in that split second, there is slight overfueling and the rich fuel mixture will occasionally cause a flame out. It can be tuned out on standalones. On most systems it's called deceleration(decel) fuel compensation table. I left it as it is because it looks cool lol.

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OMG!!!!! AMAZING!!!!..... i must be second nature to you to build 2jz now.........
Yeah, I can build one of these engines blindfolded if necessary. Not that I would recommend doing that though lol. If you ask me which specific bolt goes where on the 2JZ engine, I can pick it out of a pile of bolts and I can tell you the size of the bolt head just off the top of my head. I think I work on too many of these haha.

Originally Posted by SELFMade
What type of wheels are those on the IS?
The first silver car had Advan Kreuzer V.
On the white car that we rebuilt after the wreck it's Volk Racing GT-V.

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Old 04-09-12, 01:40 AM
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Updates: 4/8/2012

Only had a few hours today to work on the manifold. Was busy all day. Didn't get to start until 11pm. Worked for about 2.5 hours and called it a night. My band saw blade was getting pretty dull, so it was taking foooorever to do the angled pie cut pieces. Going to order a new one tomorrow so I can resume fabrication at a normal rate of speed lol. I spent almost an hour cutting all these little pieces lol. With a new sharp blade, it should only take about 1/4 that time.

Pie cuts, get them while they're hot!
I cut about a total of 20 pieces.



Finished tacking up the #6 runner. Mounted turbo on there just for fun to see how it looks.


Also finished #2 runner.


I'll probably get to finishing up the remaining 2 runners tomorrow and I can weld the whole entire thing together. I will run my second argon tank with a regulator inside the manifold. I'm going to backpurge the inside while I weld. This is pretty much a necessity if you want a stainless steel manifold that isn't going to crack down the line somewhere.
Old 04-09-12, 03:37 AM
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Thats some pretty good fab work man.
Old 04-09-12, 06:39 AM
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This thread delivers! Amazing fabrication work man, and I'm glad to see she's rising from the grave.
Old 04-09-12, 06:56 AM
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I can't wait to see this finished!


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