Damon:

Thanks much! OZ's aren't at all my style for this car though. I've already got the wheels covered. A blatantly modern shape with an obviously "faddy" color scheme would really ruin my vision for this car. I had John at CCW make a custom set of Classics in 17 for her. I love it. By the way, she started right up on first crank (after dry starts to dissipate fluids) yesterday, and is on the dyno today for tuning! But Damon, I love the black OZ Wheels and was actually on your website pricing them for my Audi S4 Avant that I picked up this week. It's Dolphin Gray Metallic, will be tracked, will have coilovers, and I WANT EXACTLY THE SAME WHEELS YOU SUGGESTED, but for that car!

I'll call you today.

 

No start up video, one of the guys grabbed the wrong camera when he was at home for lunch (i.e. the shop camera died last night, right before first start up. Thankfully, another camera was present, so we were able to get the video still. He'll upload it tonight when he's home).

However, a few pictures from current progress:

John finalizing the breather system...



The custom coolant-overflow reservoir Chris designed...



And of course, the feed line is -4AN...



John designed a custom throttle cable bracket to relocate the path of the cable, out of the line of heat emanating from the turbine housing/downpipe...



Here is the path of the throttle cable now; as you can see, it matches its curvature perfectly with the PCV line, it's rather easy on the eye...



Two of the National Speed fabrication experts hard at it; Chris Polanski (President of National Speed, Inc. Stores) and John Faldzinski (one of our Performance Technicians)...



She's wrapping up.

 

No sweat, John makes a great wheel and they do make the car look much more...period.

Gimme a buzz on the Audi....

 

A few more shots of the work thus far, it's about 98% completed, Chris is finishing up the fabrication work this evening.

The valve cover breather...

Driver side of the engine (i.e. where the vacuum reference location is)...



Passenger side of the engine (i.e. where the breather canister is mounted)...



Zoomed out a bit...



Arial shot of the engine bay as it sits now...



I love this shot…

 

that car is so nice!

 

Just some pics that I wanted to share during this suspenseful time (for me) in waiting on the dyno tuning in the next few days.

I hope you all enjoy them as much as I am.





Check the breather separator/canister…





The vacuum reference…



Backside of the engine bay…



The intake tube and breather/separator canister support bracket...







Front shot…



And a few drama shots…













Thanks to Jordan at National Speed for hooking me up so constantly with wonderful pics of my baby.

See y’all tomorrow.

 

hey blakt out

i thought you sold your 911? your car is awesome.

 

Thanks man. Yes I did. Kept this one.

 

Here are some vids. The first two are it just getting put onto the dyno. It's not dramatic, but I just love seeing it moving around under it's own power.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2INK-...layer_embedded

Then, here's a very early tuning session on the dyno. This run goes to 4,000rpm or so and is only at 7psi. They're having to totally write the ECU map for this thing, so it takes a while.

I got some clarification today on the engine power. I had chosen in the beginning of the engine build to have a focus on minimizing turbo lag as long as it put 380-400hp down to the wheels. So, the turbo I got has a sweet spot in its efficiency range around 350 or so at the wheels. I'm really happy with this choice.

Here's a bit of cool info too. In a little dyno run like you see below (only at 7psi, but run up to 4,500rpm) it put over 200HP at the wheels. That means this engine is really going to have great midrange grunt. We're going to double (or a bit more) the psi as tuning goes on. I'm excited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVdd4...layer_embedded

 

Tuning session is going well. This one, on 10psi, got 302rwhp.

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

Shortly thereafter (and while I was on the phone with them hearing this thing scream), it got 351rwhp at 14psi. The goal of 380-400 at high boost seems perfectly attainable.

 

The car just did 421.90whp and 306.28ftlbs on 18psi! PUMP GAS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKdkZAsRho

 

That is just freakin' awesome!!!

Well done.

 

It just did 431.44whp and 319.72ftlbs!

 

Wow very impressive...is this still on pump gas?

Car should be a beast with that much power...whats it weigh, 2300lbs?

 

Yep. 93 octane. And it weighs a bit less than that. Since it's not all assembled, I don't yet know for sure. I'm betting closer to 2100 though.