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Old 02-23-04 | 12:12 AM
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so far so good
Old 02-23-04 | 12:42 AM
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so let me get this striat. you spent over $2k to DOWNGRADE from 3 45mm butterflies to 2 50mm. thats roughly a 18% drop in cross sectional area. HUH?

man you ARE hell bent on being unique.
i'm not 100% sure on the entire setup, but the stock TB may be bigger in area than the stock runners. and this throttle body setup may be wider. maybe shorter (which ideally helps highend if physics serves a purpose).
Old 02-23-04 | 01:01 AM
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Wow, looks like that engine bay could use a wipe down.
Indeed. Its very dusty in souther texas. Dust+oil/grease=big mess. I need to get some degreaser up in there.
Old 02-23-04 | 01:15 AM
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Originally posted by andrew lohaus
so let me get this striat. you spent over $2k to DOWNGRADE from 3 45mm butterflies to 2 50mm. thats roughly a 18% drop in cross sectional area. HUH?
While the 2 50mm throttles have a smaller cross sectional area, they will flow more than the stock throttles/intake manifold.

And as far as ppl running it N/A, try so find some ppl that Have E-prod race cars. This is the intake set-up that mazdatrix uses, although they use carbs due to rules.
Old 02-23-04 | 07:30 AM
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Congrats, I've eyeballed that setup before on ebay. Went so far as to price it all out...then I got sad.

One possible way to look at the problem with the coolant -> turbo...get a dry T04.
Old 02-23-04 | 08:46 AM
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Hmmm...where is the provission for the water passage on the stock LIM on the new one well you guessed it, there isn't any!! It looks like we will either have to fabricate a new water return and plug the old one OR make it so the after market LIM has a fitting for the stock turbo's water return. Well for my setup I will not be using the stock turbo so I will choose to block it off and find another source of water return should my upgraded turbo be water cooled.
Use the waterline that comes off the rear(?) iron that was normally connected to the TB, BAC waterline. The one that points up...I'm sure you probalby have that capped at this point anyway. It works great.

Water cooled turbos are better for longevity of the CHRA from the studies that I have seen. And being from Tx now living in Az, I know very well the heat that you will be dealing with.

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Old 02-23-04 | 12:31 PM
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Yeah I was thinking about that one on the rear plate. But it is unlikly that the turbo I buy will be water cooled because the TO4's I have seen are only oil cooled.
Old 03-21-04 | 02:29 PM
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would this happen to be it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2468091707
Old 03-21-04 | 02:34 PM
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Those are my throtttle bodies yes. But What I got came with more parts that made it worth around 800+ USD from a dealer of efihardware's stuff. Good thing I payed almost 250 dollars less.
Old 03-21-04 | 02:35 PM
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or www.tweakit.com (australian - check shipping prices)
Old 03-21-04 | 02:38 PM
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thats gonna be real nice do u have a link though too where u got it from cause id like too take a look at the NA kit
Old 03-21-04 | 02:40 PM
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cause the tweakit site seems too be down for now and i was typin when that came up
Old 03-21-04 | 03:15 PM
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my bad. i guessed. http://www.tweakit.net/rx-7/index.htm
it works
Old 03-21-04 | 03:42 PM
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ok i'm ready for an update.
Old 03-21-04 | 03:48 PM
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i can update you.
Santi had a vision. since then, he has stopped posting (as much at least) and is focusing on other things in life. i believe the car is parked and sitting. anything more and he'll have to fill us in. last i heard, the T2 was gonna sit for awhile.
Old 03-21-04 | 04:00 PM
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thks for the link it worked nice site too
Old 03-21-04 | 04:05 PM
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The only thing that is still being done to the TII is the custom fabricated plenum for the TB's and whatever parts were already in my hands. Casio was nice enough to sell me his spare set of Series five tail lights so I could restore the original tails on the 89 TII and I have gotten it a pair of S5 TII mirrors and the new ignition lock/switch is going on today. I will be swapping the TII guage cluster over to an N/a unit because the TII will use a 1.5 BAR Greddy Boost guage and I want a stock Volt meter. I'm also working on getting it the missing fender it needs. Also to go in are the new white side mouldings and stock side marker for the fender and the ones that were bent up before. The TII will also get a new set of MANUAL windows because I don't like power ones. After all of this is done I will be swapping in another set of carpet because the one that is currently in it is soaked in oil as the idiots at the yard used it as a chemical storage.


As for me I am likely to return in a little bit better force during the summer months as I will have less of a load on my back and more time for the cars.


Santiago
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