So since everyone is making a build thread i decided why not I'll make one too. I think I've made a few small threads like this in the past but I'll tell the whole story here.
First chassis:
Bought this car in high school after saving all my pennies and getting a loan from my pops. Here is the day i bought her and brought her home. About a week later i showed up to my first LADSM meet Circa 06'.
First mods that were done were an open air filter, greddy bov, and some gauges
After about a year i also added an HKS hi power exhaust (still miss this loud POS) because my buddy had one on his supra and i always liked it
About another year passed by and i decided i needed to go faster. I bough a small 16g, and picked up an install kit from RRE (lol)
I also bought an o2 dump since i wanted to be like all the cool kids.
That's about the end of the first part of this story. On my way home from a meet one night me and sam were racing some 350z and i ended up killing my motor. It walked like no one's business that motor did.
After picking up and installing a running 6 bolt i added injectors, head studs, fuel pump, t3 turbonetics 60trim, and an afc. She made right around 320whp on my friends dyno. Shortly after i did an evo 8 ecu swap (probably the 2nd person in socal to do this at the time).
At this point i was tired of breaking transmissions, and being peg legged fwd so i searched and found an awd shell in good shape with a running engine for stupid cheap. I found one but about a month later i got in an accident and the car was totaled.
That car ran good for a whole week before it was wrecked. So i went back to driving my fwd gst
Once that motor kicked the bucket (broken ring lands) i did a backyard build using evo 9 pistons, 1g rods, and 2g head.
That motor lasted a good while, till it decided to kick a rod out the side of the block one spring afternoon.
So after a few motors i was all sad panda and still peg legging fwd. At this point i decided to keep the awd junk car for parts in a future awd swap. I also decided it was time to build a fresh motor, with a forged bottom end.
Specs on the new build:
6 bolt block:
Mahle Pistons 9:1 comp
Eagle H beams
OEM crank
Balanced rotating assembly
ARP main studs
ACL race bearings (rod and main)
BSE
OEM oil pump and straight cut gears
New OEM everything timing belt side (gaskets,seals, pulleys, etc)
ARP head studs
OEM metal head gasket
2g head:
SS standard size valves
Manganeze-bronze valve guides
New valve seals
Evo 9 valve springs and retainers
HKS 264/272
Other:
Big oil cooler about 12x9 with-6 pushlock hose and fittings and MAN mounting bracket i can probably tow the car with LOL.
Custom 2.5" SS o2 housing
true 3" downpipe
GT3255e turbo
RC1000cc injectors
Custom methanol injection setup
custom intercooler setup (lower intecooler pipe built by me, upper built by sam and myself)
Tial q bov
And that was the last motor i built, Its still in the car and running strong. With this setup she made 340whp/300ftlb at 19psi on the RRE dyno.
After another broken transmission i decided it was time for the awd swap, so that's what came next. I'll add some pictures of that later. I'll also be retuning the car with the methanol setup and adding some big boy cams to see what this turbo can make.
For now the car is almost where i want it, the goal is to have a fun DD that i can drive to the grown without any major problems. I average ~1600 miles of driving a month, so my main thing is reliability. I also have somewhat of an obsession with finding a compromise between a car with balls, and good fuel economy. I average about 22mph with a mix of city and street driving so I'm always looking to improve that.