Greg in PA build

[greg]

Apr 2, 2015 11:22:58 GMT einy said:

Jeeprers, Greg ... I cannot say "thank you" enough for all the wiring pics that you are posting. This is REALLY going to help me out when I get to that point in my build! Sort of thinking I need to send beer your way as 'payment'!

John

Its s good idea to run a ground wire that attaches all your grounds. Especially on a setup like mine where I'm using rivnuts for all the ground points. That extra bit of reassurance will help prevent future issues if a ground comes loose or rusts.

Just got done measuring the resistance between all my grounds and the negative battery terminal and all are under 1 ohm.

[greg]

The Exocet has mirrors and carpet now.




Another idea I plagiarized from Steadfast.

[greg]

Stopped by the garage for a little bit to finish a couple things. Like the passenger seat.




I didn't install the mounts correctly for the wing. This is how they are supposed to go.

[greg]

Easiest turbo install ever!








Not sure why people are having issues with the steering shaft hitting the header. Mine cleared just fine.

[steadfast]

Love it! I am going to do this exact same thing in a few months. Two questions. Did you have to rotate the turbo? And where did you tap the water line?

[greg]

Apr 7, 2015 5:43:45 GMT steadfast said:

Love it! I am going to do this exact same thing in a few months. Two questions. Did you have to rotate the turbo? And where did you tap the water line?

Haven't clocked the turbo (pretty sure I won't have to) and ill get you pics of the coolant lines tonight. Right now they're just attached to the turbo.

The line that goes from the thermostat housing (on the front of the engine) to the mixing manifold gets removed and the two open ports are where the lines go.

I over looked something crucial. I didn't know the FM turbo manifold came with an EGR bung. The caps for this bung are out of stock at FM. From my research the thread pitch for this bung is M22x1.5 so I'm on the hunt for a steel or stainless plug.

[steadfast]

I think I bought the last EGR cap from them. PM me your address and I'll send it to you. I no longer need it.

[greg]

Lots done tonight. Starting where I left off yesterday.

Minor issue with the oil feed line. It's could be a foot or two shorter and fit better. I might try sourcing one or make my own.



Steadfast, you were asking about the coolant hoses. FM gives you 70" of hose and about half as much shielding. I probably only used about half the hose but you just cut them to length, slide on the shielding and clamp them down.

There are mounts on the turbo itself for these P-clips so you can run the lines and not have them dangle in the way of the PS or AC like on a miata. I still installed these anyway as it looks cleaner.






Doesn't matter which hose goes to what side but I'm starting to re-think my idea to feed the coolant to the turbo from the back of the engine where the re-route comes from now. This way it gets "cool" coolant instead of "warmed" coolant from the engine.

The FM cross flow and fan kit fits perfect. With the larger front FM sway bar I could only use 1 spacer instead of two for the shroud.




The FMIC is still a work in progress. It's held in place by two 5/16 riv nuts. I'm kind of thinking about adding two more.

I left off the FM "horizontal" bar and just cut holes in the vertical bars. Need to get some more hardware before this is finished.

Exocet is 30" wide
IC mounts are 11" apart
9.5" from ends = center




For anyone who was wondering, the NA down pipe works perfectly with the new style trans tunnel.



And the enthuzacar exhaust fits perfectly! The muffler hangs off the same mounts for the gas tank.





Taylor, can you look into something for me pretty please? I got a high flow cat with this exhaust and I'm pretty sure I didn't order it. Was this a booboo or is do all Enthusacar exhaust come with cats?

[steadfast]

My enthusacar exhaust came with a highflow cat, I didn't order it either. i assume they all come with it.

[greg]

FMIC is in. Only held in place by these two clamps right now. Will probably add two more for the bottom as its a bit flimsy.




Radiator shroud mounted too. Passenger fan just barely touches the sway bar. Debating what to do. I can't bring the sway any farther back or the fan any closer to the radiator. I wish I would have mounted the radiator half an inch higher.

Rubber coated P-clips neatly hold the wiring out of the way.




This thing should help add some power too. It's a fiberglass spark plug cover from Garage Star I believe.



Came up with a really creative place to mount the boost control solenoid.




FM had issues with ECU controlled boost. Pretty sure I know why. More on this later. I gotta source a 12V source. Didn't realize this till just today. Figured it was only a 5V...

I'm going to run both the narrowband and wideband. Wanted to show some of you new guys this.



Don't cut the wires for the narrowband and the knock sensor. It's shielded to filter out electrical noise. There's and inner and outer layer to the wiring. The outer layer goes to a filtered ground while the inner wire is the signal wire.

Best to just leave these two sensor wires alone.

[jgilbert]

Greg, Very much enjoying reading about your turbo upgrade. Thanks for sharing in the detail you have. Keep the posts coming.

[exoRy]

agree with @jgilbert - will be revisiting this and using it as a "how-to-guide" when I come to turbo mine!!

[greg]

Thanks guys! Didn't get any garage time this weekend. Was perfect weather so we were out with friends.

About the only thing I got done was ordering the photon headlights, shorter oil feed line for the turbo, horn and test pipe. Tomorrows plan is to get the fuel line run along with the rear wire harness. Engine wiring is done except loom and O2 sensors.

[nomdenom]

Nice !

I can't read it on the picture, but out of curiosity which turbo is it ?
I wanted to get a 2860 or 2871 but FM does not seem to sell them anymore

[greg]

Apr 14, 2015 18:59:11 GMT nomdenom said:

Nice !

I can't read it on the picture, but out of curiosity which turbo is it ?
I wanted to get a 2860 or 2871 but FM does not seem to sell them anymore

It's the standard FMII with the GT2560R.

Ill be honest I have no first hand experience with this particular turbo or setup, but I do understand compressor maps and data. In a nut shell, the idea is this turbo will max out the engine in terms of horsepower you can make on pump gas without being so large that it has no low end torque (notice I didn't say that larger is laggy). Quick throttle response is everything on a small road course or autoX. Hell even the street!

Now we will see how much this holds true after I get it together and put it out there but that's just what I gather as the reasoning for this particular turbo vs some of the larger step ups that might have come out in recent years. Quick response on pump gas without blowing up your 150k old stock motor.