I've had this car for a little while now and it's pretty much going in the direction like most of my cars end up, so I may as well start a thread.
It was just supposed to be a quick, comfortable daily that I wouldn't have to modify much and had to be able to haul just the usual everyday things around in eg, MTB and Bunnings/IKEA trips!
It had fucked coil packs so I picked it up cheap off some Indian guy, put a new set of coil packs in and all was sweet for the next 6 months . . .
I noticed an oil leak from the passenger side that was slowly getting worse and traced it back to the turbo oil feed line. Ah well no biggy, just an easy fix or so I thought! Having not worked on a VQ engine before, it wasn't until half way through changing it out that I discovered you can't get the line off without pulling the whole turbo.
The banjo bolt is too long and it hits on the manifold before it is fully unscrewed. Since the car wasn't far off 200k, the turbo had begun to sound like a Dyson and it's an almost two day job just to get the turbo off, I frantically searched for a new turbo as this is my daily.
Scotty from SAU had a Billet Intense RS turbo spare and express posted it. This is an awesome turbo that is capable of 35psi of boost and sacrifices only a small amount of low end power and response.
In the mean time while the car was off the road I set about fabbing up a 3" bellmouth dump pipe.
Then followed it up with a 3"-2.5" intake pipe. (Still needed to weld on BOV return bung)
To finish it all off I fabbed up a 3" mild steel catless exhaust system with HKS muffler. I picked up 7psi of boost with the new free flowing dump back, so it was sitting on 21psi with standard injectors and pump.
I liaised with a guy over east called ITSRom who has cracked the factory ECU and is running the identical setup to mine. A few days later a reflashed ECU for my setup arrived and it was running safely on 19psi
TLDR; Oil leak>Billet Turbo>Intake>Exhaust>Tune>Oil leak fixed!
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