SARX installs a turbocharged bridge ported renny a picture thread
 

: Disclaimer, This thread is for pictures only. I would love to hear your comments but all technical discussion can be directed at:

https://www.rx8club.com/major-horsep...thread-210754/

I have personally been working towards this for about two years now. I have only been stateside for about 4 months and have had to update my install timeline by about a month so not all is exactly where I would like it to be and some compromises were made.

I hope you enjoy my thread I could not have done this without out the help of: 9krpmrx8, Hector Castillo, shadycrew31, cornholio135, houstonrx8er, Grungepup, Kane

Thank you guys for all the support and hard work to make this happen.

Would like to kick off the thread with a bit of info about the build.

2005 RX8 72K miles.
Bridge ported renny with a ton of extra work done by: BDC Motorsports
Low Mount turbo kit with some extra work built by: Turblown Modded by Hoss -05
Lots of extras from BHR, the only Carbonitic carbon clutch and diff i know about in the US.
Other stuff as well but lets save that for the Tech discussion thread.

This is what I see when I wake up in the morning. - a few cars.

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Cq...831_081311.jpg

The bridge port Renny.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--5...831_101039.jpg

Check the 50mm dump tube... yikes!

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UQ...831_172302.jpg

Here you can see the heat shields turblown made for me. They did a Great job.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H1...831_173216.jpg

Another picture in this one you can my broke wast-gate. "the nipples are broke alone with the bent adjuster" this a a 50mm unit and will take heat like no other. Its sad it got messed up so bad.

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C2...831_173138.jpg

Another view... look at all the idmitsu in the back... :P

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-es...831_173205.jpg

Rad pack out.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-BU...901_142732.jpg

engine out.... thanks guys... you know who you are.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-va...901_202713.jpg

Old pilot .... wow this think looks crazy.. not sure what to think.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-66...901_202917.jpg

With S1 tranny.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-wX...902_113531.jpg

So for this install I decided to go heat shield crazy. This is my quick and simply s2 heat shield. It was left over from other parts.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iF...902_135141.jpg

This is the Lower intake manni custom ported by BDC Motorsports and covered by a bit of heat shield by Cornholio135.... I swear corn/Mike is the king of wrapping. Can only imagine what his C-mas presents look like.

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X-...902_140632.jpg

Here is another pick of my engine by half way through my heat shield install. Its all custom installed by me. with my big turbo i banged the crap out of my fire wall and put in all this heat shielding stuff.

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Xb...902_155436.jpg

My friend cornholio also wrapped all post IC piping inside the engine bay.... in amazing carbon lava matt weave... this is lava mat and has the claimed ability to reflect heat up to 2k*. It look a bit ricer but is 100% functional.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-al...902_155610.jpg

I also had my header and DP custom coated with a Super high temp coating that is suppose to help keep heat from radiating from the piping into my engine bay. Both my Exhaust Mani and my DP have the same coating.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U1...902_155643.jpg

9krpmrx8 holding the fan pack. This set up pulls alot more air through the rad pac then the stock set up. The wiring on the fans is not larger then the OEM. It may draw a few more AMP's then normal but I am willing accept that. All connectors that have been cut or have redone to done to mil speck and hard soldered.
http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-WL...902_232245.jpg

The last one for the night. So much work to do tomorrow. Not sure what to think but will drive on. I need to make the tuning date.

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Uh...902_233132.jpg

That mani and engine mount bracket are not easy to install. You can see the coating on the manifold fairly well in this pic.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--x...903_203039.jpg

Up on chains! Check out the sexy carbonetic carbon clutch and flywheel set up.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1S...903_203755.jpg

It was not going in with both the engine bracket and kicked out oil pan. one had to be removed.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ad...903_205555.jpg

Where we stopped. We tried to a good 40 mins trying to get these bad boys mated up with no luck.

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vS...903_221508.jpg

Only one picture from today but its a big one! Finally got the engine and tranny mated. Ended up having to pull them together with the bolts.

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Fp...904_221224.jpg

Both seats are in!

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AU...906_010938.jpg

Here is Shadycrew AKA DC mother truckers working on the turbo

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kp...905_221649.jpg

Here is the billet wheel.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TW...905_221825.jpg

9krpmrx8 holding one of the housings for the turbo. We could not squeeze the turbo in place with it on.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H0...905_222035.jpg

this is what we did to protect the wheel while installing the turbo.

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-op...905_223058.jpg

Finally!

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7U...905_233855.jpg

Here you can see some of the piping in place.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Xw...906_010933.jpg

Where I ended. Need to re-do the drain today somehow.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Dd...906_005056.jpg

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-p6...908_134550.jpg

All the turbo lines in place... other then the drain.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-IO...909_145402.jpg

Here is the wiring going into place. What really dose not come out in these pictures is all the small stuff being done. Like the RB oil lines and rad pack set up.

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P9...909_191603.jpg

Here you can see some of the methods I took to try and combat heat around the turbo.

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FG...911_203111.jpg

Even my waste gate has its own exhaust!

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lB...911_213924.jpg

Great... another one of those SARX guys is doing a build...

Is it mandatory to have a VR RX8 to be in SARX?

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zX...912_235709.jpg

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-aG...913_001522.jpg

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_g...913_002051.jpg

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xQ...913_012605.jpg

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Fu...913_015228.jpg

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S3...913_025023.jpg

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4x...913_032609.jpg

Yes, but there are exceptions... I had a black 8.

The build is looking good! It's awesome that you're getting good pictures of everything as you go. It's clear that all that time really helped you think about how to pull it all together.

Thanks for the photo updates. Looks like a lot of thought has gone into the build great work!!

It's getting there , good job

Hey dude great pics your build is going rather quickly...

great pics buddy.
its my pleasure helping you out! even if its just doing the easy things....
have a really good time

Looks good so far, What oil filter sandwich plate is that? Looks like the Golden Eagle one, I was looking at that one cause it would feed filtered oil to the turbo, but I wasn't sure if it would fit the 8.

Impressive stuff . I hope it measures up to your expectations .

This could be a SARX record for thread start time vs completion date :)

So...I take it you guys like red cars? Loving the manifold man.

subbed ... gl with the build

lol and theres a few others that you cant see in the pictures
:cwm27:

Good deal.... This is what I like to see... Good work guys...

Thread updated!

Not true. Have been working towards this for about two years.

Looks like you have a custom oil pan. Does it have a larger capacity than Greddy?

He's got the Rx8performance oil pan, it holds about 6 quarts.

Bad ass build BTW:bowdown:

I have no idea.

Looking good!

Great project i wait the results.. Totally how much hp nm do you expect this bport turbo ? And how much cost ? Thanks.

they all like the red but they just cant come to grasps that the Ti look so much better :) (and is less of a cop magnet):suspect:

Nice I found The pic Thread.... looking like great progress being made....

i spy with my little eye a non oem oil pan ;)

Man...wish I could be there to help out. Soooo need to get a transfer from Houston to SA!

Wow nice!!! Work!! :)

I could never do those stuffs what you guys are doing. Anyway, nice work and keep it coming.

Thanks for all the kind words guys. Only one picture for the day. :/ It was a good day though finally got the engine and tranny mated up.

Lots to do tomorrow... and prolly till next weekend. Anyway we will continue the journey tomorrow wish me luck ill need it. Tomorrow tomorrow one of the things on my agenda is the manifold engine brackets and mounts... Yikes.

bunch of noobs ...

:lol:

Nice job guys ! When will u guys drop one of those into my 8 ? :lol:

To be fair I haven't done a single thing except help out with the seat belt light and answer a few random questions.

I wish i could have done more :(. It would have been my 5th engine install and 7th removal!

dont lie shady ... you told me you did everything while scott and hoss sat back and drank heavily

Nah I had plans the whole weekend :(. My install is going down this weekend hell or highwater.

Hopefully Raul will be done so i can give you a hand all weekend.

there will be no hell or highwater at my house this weekend...only a sucessful, yet difficult, turbo install:ylsuper:

great pics Mike
the inside of the headers are coated too?

fixed

No, I could not get anyone to coat the inside for me. Its suppose to be a very nice heat coating that is able to withstand well beyond what EGTs i should see.

get it right get it tight!!

First time you fill it with oil you might get a surprise ;)

With the 2 Setrab coolers and -10 lines..and the same oil pan I have 9+ quarts of oil in the system.

you wouldn't want that - anything coming loose and it's bye bye turbo .

my down pipe is both in and out but like brettus said, if something somehow flaked (which is really unlikely but can happen) then it would go through the turbo and that would be bad

well on the DP it wouldn't be a big deal, it would just get blown out. But on the manifold yeah. Hell my "coating" is just about all gone. I am pretty sure it was just high temp engine paint at best.

Nice. keep us updated

Scott I found a guy in seguin that does actual high temp coating...

Home

If not him then I guess there is always the pro choice?

http://www.polydyn.com/

Nice, I have been wanting to get my valve cover powdercoated :) I have seen that guys ads before.

No for real though he seems legit...

Have you heard bad things?