Das $build thread$ by dasbeast3.0

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80% done with the mechanical portion of this thing....which means i will definitely make it to dyno day. I put some serious time in the turbo setup this week and its really coming together nice. It fits 10000x better than it did before, and I wont have to worry about longevity now. Time was an issue so I had a local guy tig weld the wg piping for me, then I did the rest with some ss wire and my mig.

I made some bad ass braces for the manifold/turbo. all done with 3/4" .65 wall ss tubing, 1/2" 316SS solid round tube and some really expensive hi-temp heim joints, which are made from 316 Stainless center bearing, races and housings. Also got the top brace nearly done (for turbo) which bolts over the oil feed port and will then form some sort of triangle, braced to the ex. manifold. Prob finish that up on saturday.

Other than that, I hard piped a -12 oil drain, which extends past the mani. so I dont melt my drain line. Just hogged out a -10 garret drain to 7/8" ID, section of 1" id pipe and AL weld fitting, welded it all up and worked out perfect.

With that said...my goal is to have it running by Sunday.

Brace on bottom of manifold:



oil drain:



top brace:





nice welding

4/3/12

Got some **** done today. Dropped the oil pan, cut off old -10 fitting cleaned up the pan a bit and welded on the -12 port. Cut the drain hose to length also, perfect 45deg. sweep, so it should flow very nice. I made a foot for the bottom manifold brace and finished the entire bottom support system. Also installed manifold, wastegates, turbo etc.

The one thing I did which some will disagree with, swapped out rod bolts w/ arp. I know you are supposed to resize, but I am not pulling everything apart to get the pistons out right now, dont have the time to do it. I Plan on running 28-30lbs and don't wanna put a hole in the block when the factory bolts let go. Def pushing the limits here, but I have a spare block im building so it only needs to hold up for a few months.

I have heard of guys running w/o resizing for years w/ no problems. I guess ill see how it goes

4/11/12

My stupid camera is broken and wont adjust so pics r bad. Wetsanded and buffed, por15 some areas, CLEANED. Paint looks awesome. Few areas I gotta touch up yet, but overall its purple and shiny so that makes me happy for now. typical corrado, it started pissing oil like crazy also. Oil cooler hose split, stupid pushlock is only good for a few years then it dry-rots and cracks. other than that, i just have a lot of reassembly to do.

5/22/12

Just checking in since its been a while. Ordered the rest of my old rotted /ripped moldings from Zeb, and I'm tracking down a brand new OE hood since I've lost interest in the scoop already. lol other than that stuff the car has been running great.

I had a bad boost control issue that i finally ironed out (stuck at 28psi). I semi-fixed a few weeks ago but something wasnt right still. I thought my manifold design was promoting horrible boost creep, I had 1bar springs in the wg's and ran 28psi off the springs..so doubling spring pressure is pretty bad. Turns out in the rush to get the C finished for dyno day, I forgot to put the damn port plugs in one of the wastegates..long story short I was running off one wastegate and had a nasty boost/vac leak in the other. Which explains the mildly stumbling idle and boost creep. Stupid, but at least its not expensive! lol I found 3 plugs still new in the package on my toolbox and a ****ing light bulb came on. Anyhow, I swapped the springs to 10lb and am going to reassemble tomorrow. im sure ill still have mild creep but nothing like before. if i can keep it around 13lbs off the springs ill be happy.

Ill get some good pics of the completed car here shortly and that will be the end of my build for now. Ill let everyone know how a stock 12v holds up at 500+whp. its staying in till it gives up. After I get wife'd up next year ill finish the "real" motor and check back in this place with some new plans.

7/2/12

Parting the car back to stock.

12/20/12

The car is still alive, not sold and in one piece (unfortunately). however for those wondering, a stock vr6 w/ 100k, arp and proper cooling/detonation control has no problem at all being beat on at 36psi which is over the 600 mark. Been hammering on it since I built it. Built motors for 600whp and under are a 100% waste of $. Proven fact. Other than that, the hx52 ****ing looooovveeesss cold weather. I've come to terms that the car will never sell, and I have zero time to part it out, as much as I'd love to have it back to stock. Gonna put in a 4puck come springtime and take it from there. Dont waste $ on building motors my friends.

3/18/13

Just want to say IM OUT . lol the car is parted and will be sold off as OEM soon. Good meeting a lot of you and giving/getting help over the years. def made some good friends. Been an awesome experience and i regret nothing. I had an absolute blast with the big turbo! if anyone is in need of parts, give me a shout i have it everything except 6 speed swap and turbo /manifold/dp. not parting the car, just the build so no stupid requests pls.