Making a turbo Z5

[Project Protoge]

Well I emailed the video.

Unfortunately it was a little disapointing. The engine didn't quite have enough life left in it.

[Henchman]

Yeah, are there any pictures on ths thread?

[Project Protoge]

Well I am leaving in a few minutes to go race an escort with I think a bp motor but I won't know what he has for sure till I get their. Hopefully my engine still has enough life left in it to get their and back but I have a feeling my brother is going to be towing me because it hardly has enough compression to start. I do plan on having my brother record it so if someone can host it I can email the video to them.

[Project Protoge]

Yes the walboro will work good, but it will cost you more.

I think it is just my computer because all video on this computer seems to jump around, not just the stuff I try to record.

[strutman]

do you think a walboro (sp?) 255 fuel pump would work, the guy whose helping me get my turbo setup going said i could go that route...would that work?

[Intruder]

Did you figure out how to capture the video properly?

[strutman]

oh ok, I will run it at 8 psi then. THANKS!

that was 8 psi with the eclipse fuel pump and 12:1 fmu right?

[Project Protoge]

My tests with the fmu had the limits of the injectors at 8psi safely. I ran it at 10psi but at high rpms it would cut out. The only way to run more boost is to hook up more injectors.

[strutman]

that sucks man, say i get that fuel pump... will my car burn up like that too if I don't install new injectors? how much boost could i run without new injectors? i don't want that to happento me

[Project Protoge]

Well I think I ****ed up the engine today while having fun. I went out to lay some rubber but I decided to turn the boost up to around 12psi and get it on video. Unfortunately I unhooked the secondary injector setup while I was working on the car and forgot to hook it back up. So I Started off and when I hit above 4000rpm's the power fell off quite a bit instead of increasing a **** load. Realised something was wrong and stopped found the problem and tried to do a 1/4 mile run but it was gutless. When I stopped the car I could hardly start it. I am pretty sure I have a blow torch case with the pistons/valves/rings. Now it really smokes but it still runs. I get the new engine friday or saturday. I was going to go out and finish it off but their are cops in the area right now and I would get pulled over just for how much it smokes. I'll get the video up later or tomorrow, depending on if I go out or not.

[Project Protoge]

I have an intel celeron 400mhz processor with 64mb of ram but 8mb are shared with the onboard video which is agp4. The capture card is DVD Xpress from ADS Tech and it is plugged into a regular usb port.

[Intruder]

What brand and model did you get? And what can you tell us about your PC? What CPU do you have, how fast is it? How much RAM do you have and what version of Windows do you use?

[Project Protoge]

Got the video capture card!! I don't know if my computer is just to slow or if the video is just jumpy though. On my computer it seems to jump around alot. Anyone know about these caption cards?

[Prototender]

yep deffinitely want video from you, and great job getting it working out for you.

[Project Protoge]

As crude as it is I mounted them in the intake tube 6" away from the throttle plate in order to allow time for the fuel to properly atomise. I ran it hard all day and it worked perfect the whole day. The air fuel was in the ideal every time I hit boost and never fluctuated all the way to the redline. I should also note that I drive 30 miles to and from work every day plus lunch break for 1 hour so I got about 80 miles on the car today alone. It doesn't spool quickly though It kicks in around 3500rpm's and kicks hard at 4000rpm's and after that it kicks ass! It feels like a 50 shot of nitrous kicking in.