Well I have been working on my car all summer, but since I am waiting for a set of clips right now I figured I would start a thread for my car. I bought the car last year, I knew very little about cars and nothing about turbos at the time and had very little mechanical experience. I wanted to learn a lot and the best way to do that for me is to do, so I dove in. The water was over my head, I tried to do too much at once and spent most of the summer just putting the turbo on the car.
When I bought the car
After I turboed it
Well it ran great and was tons of fun, but since the odometer was busted and I wanted to be able to run some most boost safely I decide I would rebuild the engine.
I took it out
Dissassembled the engine and found a little carbon build up on pistons and valves. The cylinders still looked good. Only real bad thing I found was my seals were leaking oil
Sent it out to the machine shop to be cleaned, bored, honed, balanced, and have the seals replaced. I plan to paint the car black (I hate white) and the engine bay was very dirty so I decided to try my hand at painting.
Cleaned the engine bay and prepared her for paint
Primer is on
Black is on
and the clear coat
Got the engine back from the machine shop, along with all the new parts. Cometic Steel Head Gasket, Clevite main and rod bearings, wiseco .02" over 9.0:1 compression pistons, eagle H-beam rods, new oil pump, arp head and main studs.
Started Assembly. Put the new main bearings and studs in. Put the crank in. fitted all the pistons and their rings. Connected pistons to the rods and started to install them. Got to the fourth rod and piston and had a little trouble with the clips for the piston pin. Looked at the bag, and saw that Wiseco gave me a set of the wrong clips. Now I am waiting for them to send me the right ones but it is taking forever.
A lot is going to be getting done as soon as I get those clips, and I will have this baby on the road soon. I hope
Thanks.
Painted it with a cheap Gravity feed gun from harbor freight. Worked well, but hard to get some of the tight spots and there were a lot of them in the engine bay.
As far as set up goes. It is a T3/T4 Hybrid 20G turbo, z32 maf, z32 fuel filter, 255lph fuel pump, top feed fuel rail and 370cc injectors, megan racing afpr. An ebay FMIC. I was running only 6 psi, but after rebuild i will take it up to 10. Next year I will get some big injectors and see what the turbo can really do. At that point the goal is roughly 400 whp, but for now i am thinking it will be about 275 whp.
Thanks.
Painted it with a cheap Gravity feed gun from harbor freight. Worked well, but hard to get some of the tight spots and there were a lot of them in the engine bay.
As far as set up goes. It is a T3/T4 Hybrid 20G turbo, z32 maf, z32 fuel filter, 255lph fuel pump, top feed fuel rail and 370cc injectors, megan racing afpr. An ebay FMIC. I was running only 6 psi, but after rebuild i will take it up to 10. Next year I will get some big injectors and see what the turbo can really do. At that point the goal is roughly 400 whp, but for now i am thinking it will be about 275 whp.
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sounds realistic but should be no problem by the looks of it. Finally people are getting real and doing KA24-Ts instead of stock SR20det swaps
As far as set up goes. It is a T3/T4 Hybrid 20G turbo, z32 maf, z32 fuel filter, 255lph fuel pump, top feed fuel rail and 370cc injectors, megan racing afpr. An ebay FMIC. I was running only 6 psi, but after rebuild i will take it up to 10. Next year I will get some big injectors and see what the turbo can really do. At that point the goal is roughly 400 whp, but for now i am thinking it will be about 275 whp.
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that’s a money build right there. this is cool to see. the KA24 is a good motor for making power without spending a fortune. i’m really looking forward to your updates. :tup:
Nice to see another diy guy. I would definitely keep it white, you will hate yourself if you paint it black.
