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Old 02-14-2007, 09:03 PM
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E46 Turbo Project Progress
As some of you know, we are building a 2.1 liter Turbo CM Car for 2007 BMW CCA Club Racing.

Just thought I would give you a status.

Bottomline - ALL the pieces are in house now and the assembly process begins. I am going to try to be diligent on progress, since we leave for Pheonix 2 weeks from tomorrow - with our first race being, March 2-4.

Right now, the suspension is hung on the car and it just came back from paint.

We have completely built the exhaust manifold (nope, no pictures allowed yet) and have acquired the turbo (something new here, not the direction we thought. We are working directly with Turbonetics - details coming soon.

So - whats left? Well, just putting everything together in 2 weeks time, tuning it and driving to Phoenix to race - that's it.

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Two great build threads on the same forum!! (I'm following the Bimmerworld E90 Build also!)
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Old 02-14-2007, 09:12 PM
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Yummy. Can I have it back now that it is painted and all pretty? Or just let me drive it please

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Old 02-14-2007, 09:55 PM
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very nice. will be following this build. sure have a long way to go in two weeks. good luck!
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Old 02-14-2007, 10:02 PM
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Now that looks like a motorsport chassis!!

Thanks for sharing Jon, I'm looking forward to seeing it progress!
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Old 02-14-2007, 11:00 PM
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very nice, long way to go but im sure it will come togeather in a hurry
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Old 02-14-2007, 11:06 PM
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The physical assembly is not too bad...that can be done very quickly.

The tuning, turbo fitment, wiring, etc will be the time consuming parts.
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Is it true you are hooking a leaf blower running on nitro methane up to the intake for the 'turbo' system?
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Old 02-14-2007, 11:14 PM
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Is it true you are hooking a leaf blower running on nitro methane up to the intake for the 'turbo' system?

I heard it was a shop vac hooked up backwards....


I WAS going to post photos of my completed cage work but it would only be embarrasing now that your photos are up...
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I heard it was a shop vac hooked up backwards....


I WAS going to post photos of my completed cage work but it would only be embarrasing now that your photos are up...
Its no ordinary shop vac though...I saw the prototype pictures. They are working with Dewalt, should be an impressive motor...pushing 10bar i think

Man up. Post the pics Its just a motorsport cage...
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Old 02-14-2007, 11:46 PM
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What kind of motor?

Looks like fun
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so will it be a 4 banger?
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so will it be a 4 banger?
doubt it, probably de-stroked 2.8 or 2.5.
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Old 02-15-2007, 12:57 AM
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So, I guess it's gunna be white, eh? I really liked your old car when it was black with red trim. You know Jon, black is slimming

Looks great. See you at LS in April.

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cost is relative... u do need a good bit of cash to run up front in a pro series, lowly mx-5 cup is $50k. that said expensive car alone isn't enough to get you up front even in CR especially if its a wet race, but it sure doesn't hurt
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Is it true you are hooking a leaf blower running on nitro methane up to the intake for the 'turbo' system?
Nope - I got one of those "Electric Turbochargers" - In fact, I ordered 5 of them. Gonna wire them inline and get a lot of boost!! Watch out!!
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Old 02-15-2007, 02:08 AM
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What kind of motor?

Looks like fun

M52 with a 66mm short stroke crank shaft.
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Old 02-15-2007, 02:10 AM
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So, I guess it's gunna be white, eh?
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It's gonna be white with Red Accents - just like my old car.

Black is just tooooooo hot - although it does go better with my eyes!
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M52 with a 66mm short stroke crank shaft.
Is that a custom crank, or from a 320i M50/M20?
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Is that a custom crank, or from a 320i M50/M20?
Standard BMW Crank from a M52B20 - Europe/Canada motor. What we do to the crank is not standard, but the crank is.
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Old 02-15-2007, 03:58 PM
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But the question of the week is...will the car get a Knob Job?
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Here are some Build Day 2 pics:






















You can click on any of the pics to see a listing of more from each day.

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