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Offline xr4tic

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A taste of things to come (updated 12/14/07)
« on: November 20, 2007, 08:00:22 PM »
Old and busted


New Hotness







Still waiting for the turbo, old one wouldn't work, and was on it's last legs.
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 08:52:36 PM »
wow those are some crazy looking headers.  Glad to see your working on her again.
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 10:02:06 PM »
is vast doing the tuning for u?
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2007, 11:42:27 PM »
I sent them another email over the weekend, but I haven't heard anything yet.

If not, then I'm going Standalone, not sure what yet though.
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2007, 11:43:43 PM »
get an M5 yet?
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2007, 02:38:43 AM »
Quote from: i forgot my password on November 20, 2007, 11:43:43 PM
get an M5 yet?

Yep, 2 months ago, it's niiiiiiiice
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2007, 08:58:16 AM »
John,
   It's OK, you can put the M5 in your sig- we won't pick on you too much  ;D

Glad to see you're working on it again.  Was that turbo used before?  What caused it to go bad?

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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2007, 09:35:21 AM »
Quote from: i forgot my password on November 20, 2007, 11:43:43 PM
get an M5 yet?

congrats!  we need to have a M5 gathering :-)
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2007, 10:30:22 AM »
Bout time you got the beast up and running again!  Dont suppose you've got a decent exhaust you're willing to get rid of...
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2007, 02:25:00 PM »
Nice to see someone modding the hell out of a B5 again :  )
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2007, 06:21:37 PM »
Man! It's about time you got working on that car again...
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2007, 11:07:34 PM »
can't wait to see what the M is like in a couple of years.  :)
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2007, 09:31:29 AM »
Hi John...great seeing that the baast (intended) is being worked on...

FWIW The turbo you, Doug K and I put in my car 4 years ago is still spooling :) thanks again and congrats on the M5! pics and update your sig!

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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2007, 06:58:40 PM »
Quote from: Legato on November 21, 2007, 10:30:22 AM
Bout time you got the beast up and running again!  Dont suppose you've got a decent exhaust you're willing to get rid of...

I've got a Scorpion exhaust on the car now, with the "DTM style" tips.  I think it's 2.5" all the way, with dual 3" tips.

The only thing is, where it mates up with the stock DP, I cut the coupler off, so that I could mate it up with my 3" downpipe.  I'd be willing to sell it cheap if someone is interested.

I'll also have an ATP manifold, turbo, tial wastegate, DP (made for ABA block though) and some misc stuff if someone was thinking about going homebrew BT.


Quote from: ken on November 21, 2007, 08:58:16 AM
John,
   It's OK, you can put the M5 in your sig- we won't pick on you too much  ;D

Glad to see you're working on it again.  Was that turbo used before?  What caused it to go bad?

ok ok, I'll put the M5 in my sig.  Done.

the turbo I had on there was a T3/T4 50trim, almost 5 years old, so it had a bit of abuse on it.  I'm guessing not being tuned might have had a lot to do with it.  It can probably be saved with a rebuild, I think it's pretty cheap to rebuild (new bushings, thrust washer)
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Re: A taste of things to come:
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2007, 11:37:50 PM »
I got the new turbo in, mocked up, I haven't reclocked the centersection or compressor housing yet.

turns out the wastegate dump tube is slightly off, so I have to send back the DP to be fixed, but I'm going to take the opportunity to get rid of the 5-bolt flange and upgrade to V-band outlet (long story why I didn't do this in the first place)

I sent a couple more emails to VAST, but still no response, so I'm still undecided on what to do for tuning.

Couple of updated pics







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