Making a turbo Z5

[Project Protoge]

Well I am back. Sorry I havn't posted here lately but I took a short vacation. When I last left off with my car I found out the seals in the turbo I had were shot so I ordered a new center section for my t3 and it should be in on friday. I am also picking up larger injectors tommorow and an fmu. Then I will run this piss out of it on video for all to see. I believe Pigeon was willing to host it for me so if you are still willing I should have it available sometime early next week. Until then.

[Intruder]

I can host it too. I pay for hosting every month... might as well make use of it.

[Prototender]

sweet can't wait to see the fruits of your labor.

[beetle_orange]

i for one is very anxious to see how this thing develops.

[Project Protoge]

here are a few pics of the turbo when I took it off.

[Prototender]

cool, you ready to come out here and do my bp when you're done with yours?

[Project Protoge]

Sounds like a little to much driving to get their

[Prototender]

it was worth a try.

[beetle_orange]

with your turbo you'll get there in half the time.

[pigeon]

whats going on with this.. any progress?

[Project Protoge]

Sorry I havn't finished yet. I got ripped off on the rebuild kit so I had to go get another turbo. Lately unfortunately I have been working 6 days a wee and I don't get home till 7:30 so it is taking a while to make the new turbo work. The new turbo is not really new but a used mitsubishi teo4 which is a major step down from the t3 I had on before but I think it should still be good for higher rpm horsepower. I just don't like the restriction of the exhaust inlet.

I have tomorrow off but I will be working another job so I hope that by just doing a little work on it after work every evening I should be able to do it by some time early next week.

I still need to find some different injectors though before I can run more than 6 pounds of boost. The stock z5 injectors only run 13lbs so I am hoping to get some that are around 22-25lbs.

[Project Protoge]

Well the bad luck continues. I got the day off yesterday so I decided to put the other turbo I got at the junkyard on and spent most of the day doing so just to see another smoke cloud behind the car. So now I figure it is time to just buy a rebuilt one online.

The turbo did spool up a lot quicker than the t3 did but I still don't like the size of the exhaust inlet port so I will probably get a t25 or a t3. This one doesn't smoke as bad as the other one but I don't want to drive a car that smells like burnt oil. I do have a friend that has a stock mitsubishi eclipse turbo he just upgraded and he is willing to sell it to me cheap, and guarantees it is good. I just don't know if I want to go through the trouble one more time to find out it really wasn't good.

[Prototender]

well that sucks, but at least your sticking it out.

[andym323]

Project Protege, much respect :D:D glad someones had the nuts to do this :D is your Z5 the normal one with the timing chain driving the exhaust cam???????

[Intruder]

is your Z5 the normal one with the timing chain driving the exhaust cam???????

As opposed to...?

That's all we have here in the US.