WANTSOM'S Twin Cam Build Thread

[WANTSOM]

Well it all started with buying a $20 water pump off www18u and this spare block I had. The plan was to build it up in "background" but that changed.



The DASH motor was pulled and the engine bay stripped and repainted just for a bit of a tidy up.



The motor was built up as a short motor (with the head torqued down) by MRC Performance in Castle Hill. Mark at MRC is very thorough and has built some strong performance motors in all manner of cars. Here is as of a few weeks ago with bits coming together slowly. The inlet is the Hypertune RWD version and I have to say dealing with them was an absolute breeze - kept to their word on timeframe etc and make a top quality product.



Some specs for the motor:

Manley Rods, Mahle M'sport pistons, 8.5 comp, Cometic h/g and ARP bolts and studs throughout, modified sump with wings, baffles and windage tray, head has been tidied up in the runners and is running new everything as I bought it as a bare head - Camtech 264 (inlet) and 272 (exhaust) cams, oversize valves, Tomei cam gears.

The whole thing will be managed by a new Autronic SM4 ecu couple'd up to an M&W Pro14 CDI and COP arrangement that I sourced through MRB1 along with a GT Pumps TD0520g so we should have plenty of air, bang, fuel and flow to make some power. It should be a good thing

The clutch is a Sachs item running an Exedy h/d plate. I also grabbed a short throw shifter for the Supra box and currently working through the coolant plumbing etc.

More to come in the coming weeks

[OLD FART]

Greg you sure know how to make me with that Hypertune manifold and tb I guess some loose change from $2k :( Unless you were able to get an absolute steal like Shannon
Your cam specs are the same as my Kelford cams :beer :)

[RiceThief]

Nice work mate, its looking good.

[redzone]

looks the goods mate :)

[WidebodyWoody]

looks awesome mate. Can't wait to see it in the car

[thrash]

i'm assuming you will be getting mrc to do the tuning as well?

[Vulpes]

:o :o :o :o wow Greg, amazing stuff. I cant believe the quality of the components.

[mrcordial]

Vey nice Greg, TD05 20G nice chooice also keep us updated mate dont be shy on the pics. They always tell a good story :)

[WANTSOM]

i'm assuming you will be getting mrc to do the tuning as well?

Thats why I'm moving over to the Autronic, its what he likes and specialises in tuning. Plus its a bloody good ECU

(Golden rule of ECU choice, go with the unit your tuner/builder is most experienced working on.)

[WANTSOM]

Oh and that big white box on the left in the last photo houses one of Redzone's gorgeous aluminium radiators :D

The parts for this thing has set me back huge but the intention was and remains to do it right and make some really nice power from the get go, and not have to keep revisiting bits along the way after its assembled. I just want to drive this thing once its done and just keep maintenance items on the agenda, no rebuilding and remodifying.

[groupAralliart]

Same game plan as me

[redzone]

yep this thing will be pretty bling when its all back together :pimp

[www.18u]

That Hypertune manifold looks sweet Greg :D It looks like they have put the S200 plenum to the VR4 runners.
See the difference compared to the vr4 one (note mine is cut and rotated now)

[WANTSOM]

Well its all done and on the trailer to go to MRC's in the morning. Man what a ball breaker getting this finished to a schedule, so I can do a track meet in 2 weeks time. I am soooo over Starions just at this moment. That will change in about 48 hours when my body returns to normal.

Hopefully all goes well with the ECU/tune and this comes on as strong as it has been built to.

Will post some pics up next couple of days when its all back and tuned, hopefully with a big fat graph with lots of useable power.

[enthuzed]

Ticks in all the boxes for goodies there. Hope all goes well at the dyno...