My FE3 progress thread

[Mazda_Powered]

yea, Mitsubishi/Toyota stock by-pass valves are the cats ass, never heard an EVO unit on a car, but heard plenty of DSM units and they hold boost and sound great, so why not? lol

[Racerboy]

That or try the Forge bov. That's what my buddy runs on his twin turbo lsx miata. He hasn't had any trouble besides getting the wrong one when he ordered it. And when that happened, Forge shipped the correct one to him by UPS next day air. And they payed return shipping. Very good company.

[Crazypunkerguy]

I am having excellent luck with my forge I bought used for $25 off the vwvortex! Just bought a seal kit and smaller spring and I was rocking and rolling!

[Mazda_Powered]

My friends XR4Ti runs a Forged BOV, and damn does it sound sharp lol...sounds like a BOV should IMO. A proper bitch slap to the face!

[FE3-323]

Well..... the replacement/upgrade BOV came from synapse.

[lowetgt]

Cool stuff! Got a time frame when she will be on the road again? Could tell it was your pics, Ryan; I see toes!

[FE3-323]

the old flange was cut off...
and new flange was welded on the cold side got a little polishing action done at the same time.

[M323GTR]

I like the make shift band aid lol shes looking good

[SgtRauksauff]

what sort of warpage occurs to the housing when you weld directly on it?

[FE3-323]

virtually zero sarge.

#1 its round where its welded to (think of welding on a pipe)
#2 its AL so the heat dissipation is in its favor

even the new flange itself is A okay

[MazdaNoob]

seems a lot more compact than the original too which is nice

[FE3-323]

indeed it is more compact. the vacuum lines are a bit tighter as they are on the back side. but other then that. theres ALOT more room in that area now. which i certainly won't complain about.

meanwhile.... ordered:
tial MVS inlet/outlet flanges/valve seat
^( the emusa stuff wasn't holding up to how much i've molested with it- so once again upgrading to stainless parts )

2 more 3" stainless V bands.... i have some changes to the exhaust system in the works.
for what id like It was far! far too much of a cunt to remove the turbo/pieces today so minor upgrades are required.
More pictures later tonight

[93_EGT]

Need to post some more pics of that now that I've finished up polishing it.
I should polish up that AFM as well

EDIT - OK... I'll post a pic of when I was almost finished with it.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...levant_count=1

[FE3-323]

ironically. i was just taking pictures of it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^many thanks to alex for polishing the turbo/ corksport STB^^^^^^^^^^

[Racerboy]

I was wondering who he was doing that for. lol, I wish I could have a shiny engine bay. Ever thought about polinshing the intake manifold, cam gears, and radiator? You can (almost) never have to many polished parts in the engine bay.