14-10-04, 18:01 GMT+10#1
Mod plates says it started life as a white NA auto. Now a purple turbo 5spd
Bought it from Sydney around about 1 year ago. Came with the usual mods. Highflow, 3" exhaust, 20thou oversize ACL cast pistons, cooler, XF throttle body, custom plenum. Went pretty hard on around 14psi.
Soon enough the clutch was dead. So it was replaced with a 5 puck brassy.
Along with the clutch went the Limo. So in went the trusty old Mini spool.
Next were new tires obviously.
Soon enough it just felt too slow. So I put in some GTR injectors, a bosch 910 fuel pump, and a microtech LTX-8. It was tuned on the chip torque dyno and made 290rwhp on 14psi.
Woudln't hold boost and was spiking to over 20psi If I tried to run anymore boost. I then replaced the actuator with a 1 bar item. Went to Dyson Rotary for a retune but it was still spiking. We decided to tune it to 11psi untill I could afford an external gate. It then made 270rwhp@11psi
It looked like this after about 1 month of removing the huge stickers it was covered in.
I put up with the horrid yellow interior for about 8 months then It was just to much. I am slowing getting rid of it.
Had this custom dash made by a local guy in Byron. It is still not finished. The pillars have to be done. Alone with the roof lining, the center consol, and black gearstick + handbrake shrouds.
The front bar was damaged in a minor crash and I couldn't be bothered fixing it. I then realised that I hated the body kit and the roster look so I pi55ed it all off.
Got some standard bars and a new rio. And after hours of angle grinding I finally got it all to fit. Being too poor to afford to get them sprayed it'll look like this for about another month or so
Future plans obviously include painting the bars. An external gate. Wheels.
When I get an external gate. I'll chuck in a cam before I retune it and would hope for around 330rwhp@18psi.
Will post more pics when I could be bothered
Jason
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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