17/06/2024
This one has been a long term slow build for us.
We worked closely with our long term friend, come customer for his exclusive build
We finally convince Chris Brown to come over to the dark side of turbo charging his super clean and already B series ej8.
But Chris had other plans
He wanted to go all out on a built b18c and turbo at the same time
So we sat down, laid it all out on the table.
Options, specs, and a plan.
Some decisions happened along the way
As somethings weren't quite clear to start with.
So it began
We sent a stock b18c2 block over to our mate Travis at Hammond Engineering for a css install.
In the meantime we pieced together parts from our USA supplier Fernando Martinez from OSTAR MOTORSPORTS
Eagle rods & Cp pistons
Gsc turbo cams and a heap of supporting accessories for the head.
We already had instock a AFI ramhorn manifold, so we ordered a gtx3076 garrett turbo & a 44mm Tial wastegate.
We opted for a skunk2 ultra street intake manifold.
And this is where it got interesting, we were in the process of developing our bolt on DBW kit for eg, ek, dc chassis.
So Chris being Chris, allowed us free range and use his car as a test dummy u could say for all our development parts.
So we went for a 70mm bosch dbw throttle body.
Next on the list we had a very capable hondata s300 v3 with burton racing cop kit for this car, but Chris really wanted a screen/dash and due to dbw we had to look at other options.
Yes, the hondata can run a screen, but only view oem sensors etc.
And it also cant run dbw.
We then decided to ditch that idea
And go with a fueltech ft550.
Since then, we ditched all the oem sensors also
So we have bosch combo sensors for oil, water and fuel
We have fueltech nano wideband and
5 button key pad
The gearbox was sent off to Aaron at HGG Melbourne for a once over and install of M factory l*d and a gsi 5th gear for hwy driving.
And as this car is keen in running into the 10s at the drags, we added a magnus motorsport clutch slipper to help slip the competition stage 4, clutch kit. Thanx to Ivan Ho at x3e motorsports.
Chris Farrugia did some amazing work wiring the engine and accessories we asked for, aswell as elec p/s and oem a/c to work with the fueltech.
Girks Lunar the fabricator made it all come together, with a beautiful 3" stainless dump pipe & exhaust, Screamer pipe and 2.5" alloy cooler piping, some bracketry to mount everything in place and neatly tucked away with minimal trimming of the bumper to keep it all sleeper looking.
We also spent some well needed money on brakes and suspension.
Thanks to Hakon Suspension - AU for the coilovers.
Hardrace arms throughout, a set of traction bars upfront will be of great help getting the car to drive down the track striaght.
Some billet hasport mounts and torque mounts have it all sitting pretty.
And all the little itty bitty pieces missing and needed along the way and needed urgently came from none other than the boys at Elusive Racing..
All the water and oil lines we made as well as Injectors and fuel pump came from the crew at RPM Race Parts Melbourne.
Big thanx to Nathaniel Arden from FuelTech Australia for making the time to be with us and help with initial ecu start up, and finalise some ecu setting, after we calibrated as much info and sensors we could while the engine wasn't running.
Massive thank you to Craig Pisa at PSR Tuning for assembling the motor, and working his magic behind the laptop on the rollers.
