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calaisturbo.com.au - Phils BT1

Started by captainah · 24 Apr 2004 · 11 replies

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captainahArchived member
Well here's some pics of my BT1 Turbo. - T03 Garret with hi flow T04 wheel, - Extra Injector - 14psi boost static - Big Intercooler - Supra 5spd conversion - 3" exhaust - Custom Interior - 18 x 7" rims, and falken Z rated tyres - dBA Slotted front rotors and Bendix Ultimates - Hi Vol fuel pump - Power Steering conversion - ~180rwks More info on my cars at : http://phil.salsasalsa.com.au Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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5spd CalaisArchived member
Sweet looking car mate. Well Done!
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TroyVKArchived member
yeah m8 looks real neat yellow looks so good cheers Troy
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251NFLArchived member
tahts a really nice and neat car man well done! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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PetrosArchived member
hey thats clean as!
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SpikeArchived member
That's one clean sweet looking car m8 Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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jet25lArchived member
Hay man did you take this car down to the nats this year I parked next to your car on the sunday morning . nice car well done .
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captainahArchived member
Yeah I believe it went to the nats....as a guy drove past a servo while I was filling up and yelled out that he knew the previous owner, and drove with him to the nats in it! I've only had it for 4 weeks....have spent about 2.5K so far getting Speed Technologies in Mitcham to help me iron out all the gremlins (and have done a bunch of work with a mate also) - new brake booster and added a 1 way valve to prevent blasting boost into it - rewired the extra injector which wasn't wired properly (car was leaning out under boost) - added a mounting bracket for turbo air intake as it was flopping about like a c0ck in a s0ck - did the power steer conversion (ooh nice - removed and repaired an improperly fitted spark plug which was installed half way in on an angle with the thread stripping a helicoil which was in there - repaired a stuffed o2 sensor - replaced a stuffed clutch slave cyl mounted on the wrong angle with a new one in the right spot - repaired crappy fusible links to battery - replumbed cooler piping to fit power steer, and some decent industrial strength pneumatic hose clamps on - gave it a decent service - replaced throttle body which had a loose butterfly screw (scary - might've swallowed the screw if on there for a few more months - ouch!) and a stuffed idle screw (someone had araldited the screw in place coz they'd broken off part of the throttle body where it mounted!) with a replacement ....and now its running sweet as. SO much better than a few weeks ago The guy I bought it off was a nice bloke, but whoever he got to work on the car (or perhaps whoever the previous owners had got to work on it) did some pretty ordinary work...lots of corners cut and glaring issues just ignored. Anyway - its getting better by the week. Now I'm off to centre the wheel properly, and repair a tiny air leak in the boost bleed tap.... One day soon once I've paid for some of the latest repairs - I'll actually get a race seat in it, put some better brake pads in, repair the lash in the diff, and take it to the race track - hmmm its going to take a few months at this rate! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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captainahArchived member
Oh yeah - also totally reworked the heater controls so they all work properly and the little vacuum switch works....got an autoelec mate to help fix a bunch of wiring issues and some melted fuses (someone had run a crazy stereo amp at some point I reckon and drawn WAY too much power through fuse box....). Replaced a range of 25amp fuses with their lower rated proper ones (no wonder wiring gets b&ggered up when people mask issues by stuffing higher rated fuses in).
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ITSGMHArchived member
damn, that's nice and neat - no bullsh!t "riff-raff"..... I'm not really into the BT1's, but this one is cool.
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KingyvlArchived member
choice.......
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Series2VLArchived member
Quote: Originally Posted by Kingyvl choice....... ...bro...thet's fulth aye?
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