@pete.lete - Kpower Industries Kswap - Gridlife ClubTR
 

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The main goal of the build was to be clean looking as possible. I wanted something that I could daily, but be pretty competitive at the track with.

The car was supercharged before with a C38 kraftwerks kit that gave me nothing but problems, snapping belts, and pulley failures. After Kraftwerks completely decided to ignore my improvement/enhancements requests and their lack of customer service, I decided to part ways. It was supercharged for about 30k miles on the stock motor that saw years of track days and daily driving.

Now fast forward to today, I'm currently running a JDL UEL GTX2860r Turbo kit that I am EXTREMELY happy with. I should have really just done this from the start. The GTX2860r is a way more efficient compressor than the C38 unit. With the turbo I can run LESS boost, but get MORE power. The C38 just wasn't as efficient.

Modifications

Drivetrain
JDL UEL GTX2860r Turbo Kit
HRI Tuned/James Martin
ID1050x Injectors
DW65c Fuel Pump
Moto-East Flex Fuel Kit
Mishimoto Oil Cooler 19 Row Core, -10an Aeroquip Lines, -10an Mocal Fittings
Racer X Oil Cooler Thermostat
ACT Clutch kit (SB8-XTSS)
Synthetic 0w-40 Castrol Edge Euro formula
Motul Gear 300 Transmission and Diff Fluid
Mishimoto Catch Can
Verus Engineering Radiator/Fan Combo
Custom 3 Port Mac Valve EBCS

Suspension/Brakes
StopTech Stainless Steel Brake Lines
StopTech C43 and C42 front and rear bbk
PFC 11 brake pads
Complete Ground Control Coilovers with Strut bar Suspension System
440in/lbs Front and Rear Spring Combo
Whiteline Gearbox Positive Shift Kit
SPC Rear Lower Adjustable Control Arms
SPC Rear Adjustable Toe Arms
SPC Front Camber Bolts
Perrin Rear Shifter Bushing

Alignment Specs
-3.5 Front
-2.5 Rear
0 Toe Front
1/16th Toe in total rear

This is most likely subject to change as time goes on, I may be adding more front and rear camber. Possibly doing a -3.5 in the front and -2.5 in the back, and possibly changing toe to something. Still need to do more research. In addition, at a certain point alignment specs become more of a personal preference.

Exhaust
Bronze Coated JDL UEL Turbo Manifold
3" JDL Dual Resonated Ultra Quiet Front Pipe
3" Dezod Motorsports Catback

Interior
Flex Fuel Zeitronix Gauge
AEM 30-4406 -30-35 PSI Boost Gauge
AEM 30-4110 UEGO Air/Fuel Ratio Gauge
Cravenspeed Gauge Pod Mount
JPM Coachworks Shift Boot
JPM Coachworks E-Brake Boot
Carbon Fiber Wrapped Dash


Favorite Highlights from 2020 Time Attack:

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Nice thread...looking forward to updates :cheers:

coming up this week, JDL emailed me back for my Ultra Quiet Over Front Pipe and I'll be ordering my Perrin 3 inch resonated exhaust!!! woohoo!

That's an awesome Build you have so far!!

I am hoping to be posting my build soon. Maybe around march after put on more parts

patiently waiting for my 3 inch JDL ultra quiet over front pipe to be shipped (hopefully today) and my perrin 3 inch resonated exhaust already shipped! Both should be here by the end of the week!!!

in other news, just purchased my first track weekend for the year for june with Gridlife

Nice build:thumbup:

I'm assuming you're adjusting your current exhaust setup because its too loud? I've got the borla cat-back and looking at also going with the Tomei uncatted UELs. Would you be so kind as to let me know how well that front pipe works out for you? I might need to quiet my system down a bit too..

Well to be honest, I didn't really think it was too loud at all. I actually really like the sound output. The main reason why I ended up getting a new exhaust was because the cat in my stock front pipe was pretty much gone and that was the only remaining piece of restrictive stock exhaust I had left to replace... I figured if I get a new front pipe with a 3 inch diameter, I may as well complement it with a 3 inch exhaust.

Thus, I saw the JDL front over pipe. There weren't really any other 3 inch front pipes, other than I think nameless makes one. I really liked the vband connection with the JDL. Same thing with the Perrin catback. What I noticed from videos was that the 3 inch exhaust with a catless header was way too loud and my current setup was already on the louder side... so hopefully with what I have on order shouldn't be too much louder than what I have already.

As soon as I get everything and installed, I'll probably be posting sound clips to compare the differences with my sound measuring mic.

I got a tomei EL paired up with my 3 inch perrin catback over the summer and it's been great. Warmed up it's nice and loud and for my long trips between the bay area and phoenix for school it only dulls my hearing for an hour or so :bellyroll: that's 80 mph cruising with the seats down though. You'll love it!

nice man! I can't wait until my new exhaust set up gets here.

JPM Goodies came in today. Thanks FT86SpeedFactory!

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Perrin 3" Resonated CBE and JDL Ultra Quiet Over Front Pipe
 

All I can say is wow. All this stuff is amazing quality. JDL especially blows me away with their welds. Can't wait to put this stuff on. Invidia N1 will be up for grabs once it's taken off and the tomei overpipe with o2 bung.

Perrin

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JDL

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Finally got some decent weather to install the exhaust!

JDL Ultra Quiet Over Front Pipe and Perrin 3 Inch Resonated.

I was worried about the clearance since it is a 3 inch pipe. Probably a few mm to spare. This is the overpipe of JDL. I honestly thought it was going to vibrate and rattle against the car, but not one noise. JDL makes great stuff.

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I'll be selling my Perrin exhaust soon. I feel like it wasn't loud enough so I went and grabbed a Tomei 80R. Feel free to PM. It's still so new, I have all the stickers, license plate frame and accessories that it came with when it was shipped.

Nice welds on the JL stuff. Some of them welds on the Perrin stuff are not as clean as I would of expected for the price.

Great build! How is that Kraftwerks holding up?

yea the JDL stuff is nice, and as far as the perrin goes, it is MIG welded which should be just as strong as TIG. I'm not a fabricator so don't quote me. However, I did read somewhere a thread that Perrin posted on this website stating that they went with MIG welding due to almost no difference in strength over TIG because TIG would have put the exhaust in the 1500+ dollar price range. But both parts are quality stuff though, highly recommend them!

Kraftwerks is holding up great so far. I've been through three belts so far. The first belt was due to the instructions of the "21mm" (bottom of the bolt head to the adapter plate) rule to tighten the belt. That belt broke when I was on the track since that setting was WAY too loose. The second belt I broke from the pulley bearings failing causing the pulleys to wobble and then have irregular wear on the belt. (that was probably also due to the first incident since the belt was too loose to begin with). Then the third belt broke when the main supercharger pulley bolt snapped in half. My guess was with Chicago's drastic swing in temperature, literally can go from 20-50 then back to 20 in a few days, probably caused the belt to become over tightened when it was too cold. Therefore, putting too much stress on that bolt causing it to snap in half and shredding the belt. It may seem like a lot, but all it really is is figuring out the belt situation. Other than that it's been good to me, hopefully I don't have any more issues!

Well any monkey can MIG weld. TIG welding is deff much more of an art form.

Here was their reasoning:

I guess from taking the context out, it seemed like someone was pissed about the quality of the overall unit? But all in all, it's a solid piece of exhaust. Craftsmanship is great. To top it all off, the customer service is best I've ever worked with!

I'm all for american made and cost savings. What I'm saying though is even for a MIG weld a few of them are pretty damn ugly. But if you have great customer service like you say you can get away with a lot of things.

Just installed the Tomei 80R yesterday. and holy SH*T that thing is loud. Perrin will be up for sale. PM for details if anyone is interested. I have ALL the accessories, even all the stickers and the license plate frame that it came with when it was shipped... Less than 100 miles on it.

So after driving around all day, driving to work and back, and running errands... I hate to come to this conclusion, but I will have to take back the note that I would be selling my perrin exhaust. the Tomei 80r is so sick in everyway. But with my exhaust setup, it is totally NOT DD friendly... I was hoping the cat and the resonator in the JDL pipe would quiet it down... but it's like those parts are not even there.

TOMEI 80R now FOR SALE PM FOR DETAILS. Has been on the car literally for 3 days... less than 100 miles on it.

updated for sale page with tomei 80r on it and a few other exhaust pieces:

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...34#post2854834

I would like to share what I had posted in the Kraftwerks Owner's thread here, since there's over a few hundred pages in that thread, this information may be hard to find.

For people who have this kit and are looking to do an oil cooler setup:

Velox Brake Ducts Pt 1.
 

Weather finally got nice and I added part of the Velox Brake Ducts, as I didn't have enough time to finish everything:

I will admit, the foam pieces that came with the kit did not stick after cleaning the ABS. Lucky for me I had extra foam from a generic A/V case from Amazon and some electrical tape did the work. I kind of went overkill with the tape and extra foam... but better safe than sorry I suppose:

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Velox Brake Ducts Pt 2.
 

I installed the front section of the brake ducts to my bumper. All that's needed are pretty much the hose routing. I saw two different threads where people were using liquid nails or hot glue to glue the mesh guard on in the hole for the ducts. Totally unnecessary. The Velox brake duct has a fog light bracket that holds a plastic cup in place to route the hose in a certain way. Once that cup and fog light bracket is installed, you can take the fog light bumper trim piece and sandwich the mesh guard in the middle and it'll be so tight it will stay on.

also PLEASE TAKE NOTE, this WILL NOT fit windshield washer fluid reservoir stock or kraftwerks. PTuning is probably the only one that will fit. I'll be ordering one later some time. In the following picture you can see the kraftwerks bottle touching the end of the plastic cup that would route the hose right into the washer fluid reservoir:

Velox Brake Ducts Pt 3.
 

Finally finished the install to the Velox Brake Ducts.

PSA to people who run Ground Control. The struts are longer and are in the way of routing the hose the way the instructions state to do so. I managed to go around. It would probably be safe to say that I would need to use a longer hose, but I'll leave it up to some track time to see how it holds up.

Instructions stated to use gaffers tape, I ended up using Gorilla Duct Tape.

Velox Hood Louvers install
 

First up, drilled the holes for mounting and cutting:

I skipped the section to punch the hood. I preferred to just drill a small pilot hole and work your way up.

Key pointers below:

Note for drilling, DO NOT press onto the drill. Let the drill do it's work and put a small amount of force to push through. Don't hulk the drill through since you will dent your hood.

Vacuum the metal shavings

Tape BOTH sides to protect the paint from chipping before cutting

Probably the step that I see a lot of people skip. Paint to protect from rust.

don't over tighten the screws on the pegs. You want to tighten hand tight and quarter turn. This is plenty tight.

Install these suckers in:

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I like these but I'm concerned about water. I heard of one guy here that has a vented hood shorting something during a wash. Does the manufacturer say anything about that?

Don't worry about the he said/she said. There are plenty of cars that have a vented hood from the factory. Plus, you can build/buy trays to redirect the water if you are still concerned.

If you use a pressure washer, I would HIGHLY recommend not spraying directly into the vents, but around it. Regardless water is going to get in. I mean if we take a look at OEM hood solutions such as WRX/STi, mazda 3 speed, etc, all of these have hood vents and don't cause any issues with water. The only other steps that you could take is you could buy the Velox rain guards, but it decreases the ventilation, or you could use electrical tape on areas you think may be prone to shorting. Electrical tape is definitely not a solid solution, but it might be more difficult to have something short, more so just doing preventative steps.

As far as what the manufacturer states, I'm guessing Velox would say buy their rain guards, but that's about it. @VeloxEric care to chime in or offer any other suggestions?

Actually right after I posted, I went and checked these things out on FT86 and they do come with the rain guards. However, as you said, it kind of defeats the point and the cooling will likely be affected. Toronto is known for biblical summertime downpours that dump tons of water in 10 minutes and then it's all sunny again. The slats kind of point towards the front, which is where the water will go, but I have no idea where the electrical components are. I'm guessing the plugs? Coils? They're on the sides, slightly underneath and likely out of the way. Still a bit concerning though.

On a side note, when I get my car supercharged, I'd love to have the vents paint matched for that OEM look.

I was going to originally paint match it, but the black powder coat looked so good I kept it. Honestly, if you could see these in person somehow they look amazing. Pictures don't do it justice.

No issues. Everything in the engine bay is a water tight seal. All connectors, engine components, etc etc. Our shop ND Miata has a louver directly about the ECU, zero issues in Indiana spring time rain season. Manufacturers specifically make every electrical connection in the engine bay water tight.

Older cars, yes, I'd be worried.

We offer rain guards for those that want to dump the water forward. It's a nice part that can be uninstalled for events and installed during daily driving. But as far as being worried about the water, you're correct, no issues.

Thanks,
Eric

Sunday Funday! ft. cousin's 2007 wrx. Can you tell we are related? lol

GridLife
 

went off track and broke my supercharger belt.... they let me exit the track where everyone enters in the beginning of the session since I went off there.

GridLife --- Velox Brake Duct/Hood Vent Eval
 

With my experience at this track before with no brake ducts, my pedal would get super mushy and my pads would definitely overheat. I would lose confidence and just not have a good time since I would be so worried about not being able to brake in time. I have seen some insane things with no brake ducts before. I have melted wheel weights off of my wheel as well have seen it happen on another car without brake ducts. I've seen my brakes hit close to 1000 without brake ducts measured with an Amazon laser heat gun. Not the fanciest or the best, but it gives some sort of judgement. Brakes are usually tested after a 3 minute cool down lap on track at about 50-60mph. Then a short cruise back to the paddock at 10mph. With the brake ducts I saw a huge, drastic drop in temp at about 400 degrees. I was really impressed and happy to see that these are doing their job.

As far as the hood vents go, since the supercharger runs hot, and I have toasted a coil pack before without the vents, I have to say these vents do solve the heat problem. Before the vents I wouldn't be able to pop my hood and try to touch the hood prop, it would be so hot I would pretty much burn my fingers. With the hood vents, temps have dropped where I could comfortably touch my hood and stand it up with the prop at the end of a track session. Velox makes great products. And to top it all off, they have great customer service too. Thank you @VeloxEric!!!

well this sucks.. wasn't expecting my photos not to show up since photobucket decided to change their policy.. I'll have to update those pictures another time...

anyways as the new title reflects now... here are some pictures of what I'm guessing a rod bent and made its way out.

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Just an update, started taking some stuff off:

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I've come to the conclusion that for round two of this car will be turbo.

Kraftwerks C38 is up for sale will include 1 belt that was fairly new with less than 1000 miles on it, another brand new belt in box and a whole bottle of rotrex fluid that is about 95% full, (Only opened it to top off the rotrex oil), and an omni 3 bar MAP sensor.

In addition, I will have for sale my DW700 injectors, and my Perrin Resonated 3 inch exhaust.

For Sale post will be made some time this week hopefully.

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First 2 pages have broken pics

yup. I'm aware. photobucket changed their policy. probably will not update those pictures until I sell my items. Thanks for letting me know!