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The Story of My FD and my single turbo build (from Argentina) **Heavy post**

Hi, my name is Manuel, im from Argentina and i want to show you the story if my FD, i will try to translate everything the best i can


i bought it like this, i never knew what will happend ten day later









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was coming home from my job and i blew a water seal, so how this project beggins
























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i started buying turbo pressure gauge, wideband 02 sensor, water temp gauge and i also bought a water meth kit, downpipe, a Koyo radiator, new front signal lenses, and all the oem spare parts that i needed (i have to buy everything from USA, you can´t find anything here, a BIG thank you to Jason from Rx7 Store ) i also ported my wastegate, thinking about a future midpipe














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and some pics of the workshop





930 Turbo 1976



Matra Djet



550 Spyder, matra and a beatiful Sa22









911 Carrera RS replica, with all the RS parts





Carrera RS 2.7 engine

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carrera Rs 2.7 and 930 turbo 3.0



915 tranny from porsche 930 turbo



the rotary Expert!!
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lets move on...

new housings, and other oem parts











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some other parts






intercooler and water silicone hoses


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ok... since the car had many years and a huge overheat, i decided to change all the water hoses and related parts




everything Mazda OEM



i also bought from a forum user a Redom Ecu



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and a new Fmic




















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and then the engine started





i bought a set of spec 99 tail lights, again from this forum



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here you can see the job done in one of my doors...

it was like this







and this is the result









some track abuse



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another pic of the engine with the apexi power intakes on and the air pump deleted



first time at the track...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TheNK...layer_embedded

building my custom made exhaust, 316 Inox, 3" hand made, tig welded













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and then... the obvius disaster.... with this new exhaust i overboosted my twins and blow them





when i took the air filter i found this...











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i ve keeped working with the help of some friends















victory!







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and she went to sleep like this



i emailed Jason and he sent me this..

she likes vodka!!













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and this...



















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ouch....



















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and more work to do





some color





















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goodbye!




and now looks like this








package from banzai racing



3 Bar Sensor Map





i love this!

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some other stuff




my new water meth kit, i never installed the other one






one of my friends in charge of the project



some new piping










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and some heat insulation from PTP turbo blankets







"lava Heat Wrap" for the downpipe

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and this is everything, tomorrow i will continue with a lot of work i have to do, thanks for the atention!


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