Chris White

Well, yours is older!

Dougs951S

Absolutely Beautiful Chris, a work of art to be sure. Can't wait to hear it fired up in video!

Chris White

It is too tight to get the 4" intake piping to come out 'normal' style. I am using a 90 degree bend in front of the turbo and routing the 4" rigid piping down and then to the front. There is room in the nose for an air box to enclose the filter. I am looking to reduce the turbo suction noise a little. I would like to get more engine noise under load instead of the normal Hover on steroids sound of an unmuffled turbo intake!

Chris White

two stock exhaust cams, modified cam gears from anpther car and the intake has no problem with the hood - the cam gears are another issue - you have to do something to get them to clear.
I have used this type set up to make 600hp at 1 bar before - at some point I may play around with some custom cams - but this should be fine for street use!

Chris White

I have more work to do on the rest of the car, the interior is being put back together after a lot of wiring work and some other nice tweaks.
Also need to so the suspension - Ledas and big reds along with some other goodies.

It will be a little while before the rest of the car looks as good as the engine - I have until spring to get it done!

Here is a shot of the 'test' instrument panel - the added part is the display from a eboost2 boost controller.

refresh951

A new standard! Unbelievable.

Are those 80# injectors? If so, I do not think they will be big enough if you go E85.

OnlineAlias

Tempting to put that display right where the factory boost gauge is....

333pg333

Specially as it's a Cab!
Looks great Chris, congratulations.

ps...What c/r on the pistons?

blown 944

deceptive title.....

Quite the ride there. Nice to see your personal pride and joy (or one of them anyway)

mj951

Wow, absolutely gorgeous!

Chris White

9:1

reno808

Why? haha. I dont use them. I see no issue with running with out it.

reno808

I am not a fan of Polished parts, but that is just is me. I do not want to take away from the build Chris. Great job looks professional. keep posting more pics and video.....

Chris White

My favorite way of debunking the 'must have belt covers' myth is to point out that the PS and Alt/AC belts do not have covers and are located much closer to where any road debris might be a factor - and those belts do not suffer from a massive amount of failures from debris!

Uncovered belts are much better for belt cooling, observation of any deterioration of the belts and my favorite - fixing any leaks. With no belt covers I can fix a balance shaft seal leak in an hour (or less), with belt covers it takes 5 times as much time - as long as you correctly guess where the leak is coming from because you can't see it until the rear belt cover is removed!

Chris White

Oddly enough my use of polished parts comes from years at the track. It is much easier to keep a polished aluminum part looking good that any other finish. Raw aluminum castings have a surface texture that just sucks up dirt. powder coating looks great to start with - but loses its finish when exposed to fuel and some cleaning chemicals. Once the powder coated finish gets damaged there is no way to fix it other than taking the part off, striping it and redoing the powder coating.

polished aluminum just takes a minute with the aluminum polish to bring it back to new.

I remember that several years ago there were a bunch of listers that were powder coating their blocks...made me cringe then and I wonder how they look now!!