Bennoz 6A13 Conversion
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Bennoz 6A13 Conversion
Thought I'd make it official!
Overall plan, is to do this on a budget & quickly. Keeping as much of the 6A13 as stock as possible. I want a car thats gonna have 200kws at the wheels & start every day, get me from A to B during the week & to C on weekends - without the need to be revved to 8,000rpm & massive hits of nitrous. My budget is $6 grand.
Out of the box, these things make 206kws at the flywheel, so thats about 150-160kws at the wheels. Thats with stock Legnum air boxes & standard Legnum exhausts... I've also read, these motors have a factory nitrided cranks (surface hardened) and some reasonably hefty internals.
Plan is to keep the factory turbos exactly where they are. Some minor modifications are required to do that, including relocating a few brake lines & moving the thermo fans from one side of the radiator to the other (& reversing the polarity.) Only thing Im gonna do to them is high-flow them.
Motor will be bolted to my FTO 5spd box. The box is being reco'ed with a few new bearing & syncros - and a Cusco MZ one way diff being put in it. The diff is being 'softened' up as mush as possible to make it more street friendly. We may also stiffen up the pressure plate of the factory clutch.
Motor will bolt to the existing mounts, only thing Im doing is having the rear lower mount done in polyurethane.
The turbo's will be plumbed directly into my free flowing 2.5" system. All we need to do is join up the 2 banks & run them into the exting setup.
The looms are apparently interchangable with little work required to integrate into existing FTO components. Im leaving that to the sparky thou, I hate electronics. The standard Legnum ECU is being used, in conjunction with a Haltech Interceptor piggyback.
As mentioned before, the Nitrous will also be plumbed back into the mix, only this time with a 30hp shot, dialled in to come on earlier in the rev range to aid spooling up the turbos.
And thats it! A good tune, wind the boost up a bit (but not too much, maybe 10-15psi) & she'll be hopefully back on the road in about a month.
The Legnum halfcut you saw in this thread, has now arrived:
http://www.ftoaustralia.com/modules.php ... ic&t=15463
We'll be starting work getting it in on Thursday We've already pulled the old motor out
New diff.
Overall plan, is to do this on a budget & quickly. Keeping as much of the 6A13 as stock as possible. I want a car thats gonna have 200kws at the wheels & start every day, get me from A to B during the week & to C on weekends - without the need to be revved to 8,000rpm & massive hits of nitrous. My budget is $6 grand.
Out of the box, these things make 206kws at the flywheel, so thats about 150-160kws at the wheels. Thats with stock Legnum air boxes & standard Legnum exhausts... I've also read, these motors have a factory nitrided cranks (surface hardened) and some reasonably hefty internals.
Plan is to keep the factory turbos exactly where they are. Some minor modifications are required to do that, including relocating a few brake lines & moving the thermo fans from one side of the radiator to the other (& reversing the polarity.) Only thing Im gonna do to them is high-flow them.
Motor will be bolted to my FTO 5spd box. The box is being reco'ed with a few new bearing & syncros - and a Cusco MZ one way diff being put in it. The diff is being 'softened' up as mush as possible to make it more street friendly. We may also stiffen up the pressure plate of the factory clutch.
Motor will bolt to the existing mounts, only thing Im doing is having the rear lower mount done in polyurethane.
The turbo's will be plumbed directly into my free flowing 2.5" system. All we need to do is join up the 2 banks & run them into the exting setup.
The looms are apparently interchangable with little work required to integrate into existing FTO components. Im leaving that to the sparky thou, I hate electronics. The standard Legnum ECU is being used, in conjunction with a Haltech Interceptor piggyback.
As mentioned before, the Nitrous will also be plumbed back into the mix, only this time with a 30hp shot, dialled in to come on earlier in the rev range to aid spooling up the turbos.
And thats it! A good tune, wind the boost up a bit (but not too much, maybe 10-15psi) & she'll be hopefully back on the road in about a month.
The Legnum halfcut you saw in this thread, has now arrived:
http://www.ftoaustralia.com/modules.php ... ic&t=15463
We'll be starting work getting it in on Thursday We've already pulled the old motor out
New diff.
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FU&KEN Sweet man. I agree with everything your doing definitly the right way to do it.
My only concern is the nos. I was reading a while ago that nos tends to destroy plugs and is that not what happened to your last motor. When you menion about the plug in your last thread it made me remember. What are you gonna do to combat that?
My only concern is the nos. I was reading a while ago that nos tends to destroy plugs and is that not what happened to your last motor. When you menion about the plug in your last thread it made me remember. What are you gonna do to combat that?
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bahahahahahaah
Good luck man, i want a ride when you finished
*note to self* i really need to get my ass in gear and get mine finished
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*note to self* i really need to get my ass in gear and get mine finished
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Ahhh! Fair enough. Better get a few spare driveshafts just in case Though with the LSD in it, the torque load should be distributed to two driveshafts instead of just the normal passenger side front wheel huh ? That should help a bit! Still a lot of torque though, especially with the nos giving it the low end rush/sudden torque hit followed by the turbo torque wave.
Definitely will be interesting, goodluck with it!
Definitely will be interesting, goodluck with it!
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bennoz, any reason why you don't want jeff's 6a13 fto which is for sale?
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true true, sometimes it's worth all the wait during the modification process but at the end of the day it's still your car.
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