Well I had a post with my updates and pictures but for some reason the pics are no longer attached to the posts so I thought I would start a new thread. I have had a few progresses with my build in the last few months, and now have a 3" exhaust on the car and finally got the fuel pump harness installed. I am just waiting for the car to get back into the shop to tidy up the charge pipes, get the meth kit relocated and get a new battery situated. I'm hoping in the next month the car will be pretty much ready for the dyno but this build has been going on for almost a year more than I expected so I don't really have any date set when it will be running. Anyways, here some pictures of where I started and what I have progressed to.

That's some nice work ya got going...I like where this is going...




2003 Cavalier
Stock 2.2 Liter, 5 speed
" Leave the rice to Uncle Ben's and the wings to KFC..
Go clean or go home. "

love the chargepipes man

i just dont like the crush bend in the exhaust. Everything else looks good










~2014 New Z under the knife, same heart different body~
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WHITECAVY wrote:i just dont like the crush bend in the exhaust. Everything else looks good

agreed. looks great. but for the welding that was done for the charge pipes, the exhaust would have been easier to tig.

WHITECAVY wrote:i just dont like the crush bend in the exhaust. Everything else looks good

This is what I thought as well.

What size turbo is that? I have the same STR manifold and I cant fit a damn 50 trim on it without it hitting the cam tower. I even tried a 3/8" and 3/4" spacer and cant get it to clear.


"Oil Leak ? What oil Leak ? Oh, Thats Just The Sweat From All The HorsePower!!"

- The turbo is a TO4E 57 trim with a stage 3 turbine. We had to shave a little off the turbo to get it to clear. I did buy a spacer but we were able to get away without using it.
- As for the exhaust I wasn't sure how the crush bends would turn out but the 2.5" I had on my car previously were crush bent and worked fine for me and I didn't have any access to mandrel bends at the time. I had to order my charge pipes from Florida and they weren't cheap so I decided to go with the crush bends. They guy was able to fab all the exhaust up in his shop and it saved me some money and regardless I will reach my goal with the crush bends anyways. In the perfect world mandrel bends would be ideal but for the sake of 250-300whp I don't think it will make any difference, probably would have been fine with the 2.5" I had on before just thought the 3" would help with spooling.
- Still a few more odds and ends to finish up but hoping in the next few weeks the car will be even closer to being done. Still gotta pick up a smaller honda battery to fit as we had to relocate some things to get the charge pipes up through and I am debating on a catch can. Also ran out of room for the meth kit so that needs to be relocated as well. Other than that the car is pretty close to being ready to the dyno. My plan at this point is to tune it to around 250whp and break the car in on that and then have to wait and see what happens from there. 300whp is my ultimate goal for a while but have to see how things turn out.

Nice progress man

Get it running

try using a smaller washer bottle, might save you some grief in the long run with the charge pipe running around there, just a suggestion, hopefully you get it done before i head out west, i'd like to see how a turbo ld9 compares to a turbo eco



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nice work bro... friday well talk.

Matthew Jollymore wrote:- The turbo is a TO4E 57 trim with a stage 3 turbine. We had to shave a little off the turbo to get it to clear. I did buy a spacer but we were able to get away without using it.

Thats actually the exact same turbo I have. Do you happen to ahve any pictures of the turbo mounted? Showing the space between the compressor housing and cam tower and maybe one showing the grinding that was done on the turbo?

Keep up the good work. Seeing this has inspired me to finish my car.


"Oil Leak ? What oil Leak ? Oh, Thats Just The Sweat From All The HorsePower!!"

Matthew Jollymore wrote:

Your wheel doesn't rub that pipe when you turn??

There's a pic a few under the one you just posted and it shows the clearance. I haven't driven the car yet but there is plenty of room there, just from the angle of that pic it doesn't look like it.

Lookin good man, I'm looking forward to your turbo 1/4times.

I hope we get to go for a cruise this summer with both our cars functioning properly

At this point I would be excited to hook it to the back of the truck and get the GF to haul me around in it haha...but yes, I hope so too, should be a nice trip around the cabot trail. Ohh, and yeah it will be nice to smoke you at the track bahaha But I get 2 lengths cause your lighter

looking good, i like the cleaness of your car

I get 10 lengths because your motor has 1.5X the displacement. Ha!

i get your front lip,.... because i want it.. lol



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Well the snow has finally melted and the car is getting pushed back into the shop tomorrow. Hopefully have some more progress in the next few days and have some pictures closer to the finished product.

Your ride is winking at me bro lol! Looking good man! Keep up the good work! You know im always partial to green

So its done? yaaayyy










~2014 New Z under the knife, same heart different body~
______________________
WHITECAVY no more
2012 numbers - 4SPD AUTOMATIC!!
328 HP
306 TQ

Not quite done...getting there though. I'm in the process of selling my house and moving to a different province so its just a little slower going than hoped but its coming. Soon, I hope!

Oh ok.










~2014 New Z under the knife, same heart different body~
______________________
WHITECAVY no more
2012 numbers - 4SPD AUTOMATIC!!
328 HP
306 TQ