B Reel's bastard child bugeye

Well I thought that being on the boards for 2 years it might be time to do a journal.





update in 2 years

 

that's a nice...bugeye...

 

I think you forgot the car part

 

First phase is done, now to fabricate everything else that's missing from the pictures...

 

just haven't uploaded pictures yet, hence the two years comment

 

Looking good!

 

When will it be ready to go into my car?

 

money talks...

 

feelings mutual... desk

 

no problems got to hit the refresh button every once in a while

 

Here's my Stage II turbo,

Well I didn't have a stock TD04 for comparison because King has it, so this big EVO16G may give some idea...















BNRsupercars FTW Bryan even rebuilt Cohen's EVO16G while I was there. I don't think you could ask for better customer service.

 

Get the anti surge compressor housing....it'll make the car drive smoother since there will be no compressor surge.

 

already working on that Coolrex

 

Sweet. Forced Performance sells them cheap.

 

true but I can do it for free...

 

Even better :wiggle:

 

bumper beam is cut and formed. Have two gussets to weld up then test fit.









It's about as bare bones as I could get

 

Looks good Brian!

Wonder whose center section that is sitting on the table?

 

Did you fab that all yourself? Very clean and very nice.

 

Is that for the interfooler?

 

This one is made of 5052 AL, the center section is Cohens backup, and yeah this is something I do in the little freetime I have.

 

going v-mount so the only thing attached will be the bumper cover

 

Make another one for me after you fab everything up. I'll buy it if it looks good.

 

Make sure not to get any weld spatter on the dog when you start welding on the dining room table, they tend not to like the smell of their fur burning.

Ahhh.. the days of being a bachelor.

Looks really good B. +1 for BNR turbos. Bryan is an extremely approachable turbo expert.

 

I dunno about BNR.....my buddy has had nothing but issues with his BNR 18g.

 

I have a backup center section?

 

Like what?

 

Do all your friends have issues?

 

3 seperate instances on 3 separate cars. For some reason the turbo seals keep going out on them. One is very recent. He was losing 1 qt oil every 1000 miles or so. I've been trying to help him locate it. He said WOT high boost car was smoke screening.

First things first pull all IC piping and intake and check for blowby oil (forged piston block). None....dry. So I said lets go for a wild shot and put stock turbo back in.....so far ZERO smoke and at 500 miles zero oil consumption.

The other 2 guys said theirs leaked into the downpipe but this recent one the exhaust side of turbo looks bone dry. Go figure.

Oh and they don't make the power you think they should.....that's been confirmed over and over. Also these are the Leggy based VF turbos that are turned into 18g/20g's.

 

Good thing mine is not a "Leggy based VF turbo". :sx:

 

but still rather gay :rofl:

 

It's close, nothing a little mighty putty can't fill.

 

That ARC oil pan looks really slick and nice.

 

If you look reel close you'll see ARC on the bottom of the pan. Might be deaf as mule, but...

 

Look closer Alex.....ARC is stamped on the pan itself :wiggle:

Ah you beat me to it b reel.

 

but not quite as dumb as a blond was the rest of my thought. Didn't like the depth of the 2.5 pan offerings and like the idea of cast AL over some hacked up overpriced stock pan. Got the supporting mods to go with it as well. The only down side is header options.

 

Still stock oil capacity or more?

 

7-quart, Tomei baffle, not sure of the pick-up maybe ARC?

 

What's the latest on this bastard child? It needs to be running already.

 

It's getting close, LS manifold is being a bitch with the hood though.

 

Just install the mega scoop so you can fit that 8-71 blower already!

 

o.o

 

I think a 7.0L WRX is enough

 

guess it will be another 2yrs

 

started getting parts back from powder coating,