turbo_will
New Member
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2013
- Messages
- 28
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 0
- Location
- adelaide
- Members Ride
- boosted vt v6
Hi, thought id start a project thread about my VT V6 turbo project. The car is just a base model, auto, 250K kms and in rather average condition but hey it was cheap and a perfect car to use for an R&D mule. Not planning on going overboard spending big coin on brand name parts this will all be all about keeping it cost effective. Plans are simple really, develop turbo kit to the point of a 12.99 or better.
Motor and trans will stay stock for a start. Rear main seal leaks so that will need doing first. Plans will be to push standard parts to find the limits. I know on my ef falcon we can run max line pressure in the trans by removing s3/s4 solonoids, the vt being an elec controlled box might be able to do similar so it keeps the clutch packs in one piece.
Turbo hardware will be carried over from our falcon kits (we do ea-bf turbo kits) and have trapped 126mph 1/4s 300rwkw+ so it shouldn't be raising a sweat in the VT shooting for 12s as a start with ecu probably being the limiting factor. Turbo is positioned roughly like this.
Trying a simple fabricated passenger manifold with stock drivers casty crossing over to join passanger side.
A/C actually works in this car so its staying although ditching it would make life so much easier with added room. Not sure on exhaust probably make up a cheap 3" single muffler system. Ill be sticking with the stock ecu and playing around with other means of getting desired result such as fuel pressures, extra injectors, water injection and maybe e85 at a later date. Ive read on here its possible to use the l67 tune/injectors which may be a good option as no doubt it would run less timing on boost and we all know its too much timing that kills ring lands and melts holes in pistons. Been there haha. Anyway keen to get cracking and race the tyres off this thing. Still have a crap load to do but ill keep updated on how this all goes, should be fun, im super excited to have a new car to mess around with and learn new things on.
So all you guys with turbo l36 ecotecs I have a few questions I couldn't find answers for when searching. When do the stock valve springs generally start floating, how far are guys pushing the stock N/A l36s bottom ends? Also does ecu have a LHM if stall speed is exceeded (for example boost pushing stall out to say 3000rpm and ecu throws it in 3rd gear as it thinks its slipping) or a speed cut?
Cheers Guys
Motor and trans will stay stock for a start. Rear main seal leaks so that will need doing first. Plans will be to push standard parts to find the limits. I know on my ef falcon we can run max line pressure in the trans by removing s3/s4 solonoids, the vt being an elec controlled box might be able to do similar so it keeps the clutch packs in one piece.
Turbo hardware will be carried over from our falcon kits (we do ea-bf turbo kits) and have trapped 126mph 1/4s 300rwkw+ so it shouldn't be raising a sweat in the VT shooting for 12s as a start with ecu probably being the limiting factor. Turbo is positioned roughly like this.
Trying a simple fabricated passenger manifold with stock drivers casty crossing over to join passanger side.
A/C actually works in this car so its staying although ditching it would make life so much easier with added room. Not sure on exhaust probably make up a cheap 3" single muffler system. Ill be sticking with the stock ecu and playing around with other means of getting desired result such as fuel pressures, extra injectors, water injection and maybe e85 at a later date. Ive read on here its possible to use the l67 tune/injectors which may be a good option as no doubt it would run less timing on boost and we all know its too much timing that kills ring lands and melts holes in pistons. Been there haha. Anyway keen to get cracking and race the tyres off this thing. Still have a crap load to do but ill keep updated on how this all goes, should be fun, im super excited to have a new car to mess around with and learn new things on.
So all you guys with turbo l36 ecotecs I have a few questions I couldn't find answers for when searching. When do the stock valve springs generally start floating, how far are guys pushing the stock N/A l36s bottom ends? Also does ecu have a LHM if stall speed is exceeded (for example boost pushing stall out to say 3000rpm and ecu throws it in 3rd gear as it thinks its slipping) or a speed cut?
Cheers Guys
