$15K power challenge

[GTsRasta]

Originally Posted by sleepless

It'll have to be at a racetrack since it's basically a dedicated track car now. Wouldn't want to use 100 octane gas cruising on the streets

E85 FTW!!!

[sleepless]

Dudes, y'all are way too literal. I was merely inviting him to join me at a racetrack You have to read between the lines...

[33truballa33]

when are you expecting to have the car back? i might try to do a couple things to my car.

[kortik]

so the N/A beast is gonna be ready soon?

[sleepless]

The motor is assembled and going in the car this weekend and hopefully fired up for the first time

We still need a custom intake manifold that will be created as part of the tuning process.

[Evil Twin]

Congratulations, Sleepless. I'm excited for you!

[MikeW]

Hope it works well. Bring out the champagne, I'm tired of popcorn. Good luck!

[33truballa33]

Great news! Can't wait until this beast is in The Pac NW

[kortik]

yes I'd like to see that beast on the track and in person

[iwilson]

Time for an update.

[Bavarian Motorist]

What are your power expectations when all is said and done?

[008]

Wow, you don't have your car back yet?! I've been away for a while and even last summer it was getting long. What have you been driving on the track?

[GTsRasta]

They're still waiting for that custom intake manifold to go through testing, production and such. It will be raising peak hp/tq 1,000 rpm or so for his 9,000+ rpm build, and in a turbo'd 2zz swapped MR2-Spyder build.

[sleepless]

Originally Posted by 008

Wow, you don't have your car back yet?! I've been away for a while and even last summer it was getting long. What have you been driving on the track?

1997 Porsche Turbo until I blew the motor in it last fall (so now I have two cars waithing for an engine!) and a 2003 Mustang Cobra (http://www.cantrellmotorsport.com/pr...bra/index.html).

[sleepless]

Originally Posted by Bavarian Motorist

What are your power expectations when all is said and done?

250 at the wheels.

[kortik]

when the Lotus will be done?
anytime soon?

[GTsRasta]

UPDATE!

While the custom intake manifold is still not ready for this build and the sister build (turbo'd 2zz swapped MR2-Spyder), heres some head porting results that will be going on the 2zz swapped MR2 build :

http://www.newcelica.org/forums/show...251118&page=23

Originally Posted by Boosted2.0

Badceli's new head flow results are in - enjoy

Intake:






Exhaust

The 2zz aftermarket is finally starting to speed up . I wonder how this will do in sleepless's NA project.

[GTsRasta]

Here's the actual Head porting thread, prices, and the official status of sleepless's car:

http://www.newcelica.org/forums/showthread.php?t=274805

Originally Posted by Boosted2.0

Yup - the street port will just be less gains by a little bit and a different shape to the curve. There are a few things we found that make flow but take an awfully long time to do and use a lot more media, so they will not be part of the street port. They mainly affect flow at higher lifts so the bottom half of the curve won't be too much different. The other thing that is a big part of the competition port is polishing the combustion chamber which does not affect flow, but supresses detonation which lets you run more timing.

The full competition port job will also require me to have the intake and exhaust manifolds for port matching. I can do it without them, but it will require the customer to make some tweaks to manifold position and shape of the inlets so its probably best to let me do it.

My current pricing structure is looking like probably $1000 for the Street P&P $1500 for the competition port without full port matching, and somewhere ebtween $1750 and $2000 for the competition port with full port and gasket matching. I have to run a few time studies as I do more heads to cement the times but the prices will be as posted or less.

As usual my first head for various applications (N/A, Turbo, S/C) will come with heavy refund incentives assuming I can get good quality before and after dynos from whoever I do them for. I'm thinking probably a 50% refund upon delivery of useable dynos covering the full rev range in 3rd or 4th gear from the same dynojet dyno. Obviously I will need run files and temperature conditions should be rimilar between the runs.

Originally Posted by Boosted2.0

Its already built and sitting in the Lotus in LRs garage.

Its a 1.8L 2ZZ with LR's bombproof bottom end, 14.5:1 pistons, Crower rods (I think), lightened crank, light flywheel, custom underdrive pulleys with a big underdrive on the alternator, MWR valves and springs, LR P&Ped the head (same method I use), Piper stage 3 cams, race header, Brisk NA performance plugs (the silver core ones), Custom Power FC wiring we did, and it WILL have one of our new intake manifolds with a 84MM TB. Also has the MWR oil pump & oil pan. It also has all of the polydyn coatings possible (oil dispersant on rods and crank, dry film on bearings and pistons skirts, ceramic on valves, piston tops, and underside of head, dry film in cam journals)

It will run exclusively unleaded race gas (somewhere between 100 - 103 octane) and the redline is going to be just shy of 10,000 RPM.

The motor is built and in the car now. All it lacks is the intake manifold.

And to think you make fun of us Celica guys for sticking on big turbos and such . Gatta love being a news fairy. I can't wait to see the final numbers on this thing.

[lotus_tunnen]

oh god please update, this is worse than pausing a jenna jameson film!


EDIT: NA TUNES FTW! YOU ARE MY HEROES!!!!!!!!!!

[Beanie]

Where are the pictures dammit?