Brisbane - Mambatek T4 billet turbocharger

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Outstanding work, Ben! Also, I like your white overalls.

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Over a burger at Grill'd, my boy suggested we go for a night drive through the twisties. So we did.







Bless him...



In love with this thing again....

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The sun came out today, so it was time for a drive through the hills with the autotune on.

What? The autotune? Well, kind of. It's a very rudimentary function in Megasquirt (but very useful nonetheless) that basically logs and changes the...

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Totally different to E36 seats. I'll just bite the bullet when the time comes. Meanwhile, some news. I refitted the idle control valve! Had to extend wires, get new hoses and lots of other crap to get it hooked up again, but it works a treat. No more...

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Yikes! Good to know!...

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Old one didn’t do much until 3,500rpm, so I’m hoping it should now pick up maybe 1,000rpm sooner? Will find out next week once it dries out a bit....

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Yes, could probably ship to Sydney in a box, but it would probably cost another $50+ or so?

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BMW M30 3.5 straight six. Would go well on a similar size Jap engine with more than 12 valves! With me running only 10psi it was just too big for my application.

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So I have my old turbo for sale. Here's a link for all the specs:

https://shop.mambatek.com/GTX-Billet...0-001-0022.htm

T4 housing, external gate, 1.00 turbine twin entry 0.70 compressor,...

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Well, Easter weekend - time to fucking do this.

We begin by removing the turbo, dump pipe, oil feed/drains and so on. Pain in the arse. No pics. One ray of sunlight in all this is that I've FINALLY figured out the trick to the 2-bolt flange...

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Very nice. There's something very satisfying about driving a large German car that wafts along in relative silence until you want to wake it up and it then totally changes character. 0-100 times are fun, but as you say, the pick-up and horizon smashing...

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Yep. But, you know, Mercedes..!

It's funny that for the W211 model update in 2006/2007, SBC was dropped (as was the M113K engine - booo!). It's a very good system but how would you like to be doing some spirited driving and all of a sudden...

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Nup - no spirited driving in this yet. Need to make sure it's all tip top first.

Plus, I am not a gentleman of leisure, having taken time out from working to undertake this shenanigan......

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So more news on the E55. Yesterday was a good day for receiving items in the mail!

One UPD 83mm pulley:





Much better quality than the old DTK one, for reasons I won't bore you with.

And...

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So with ongoing dramas with the E55 preventing me from doing anything major to the BMW (I need it as my primary car atm), I have been busy with some small items that don't knock it out of action for long.

First was to fit the fire extinguisher....

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So many sayings.. which one to pick?

"A fool and his money are easily parted"?
"In never rains; it pours"?
"Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck"?

So with the suspension all done I was back in business....