PlasticPower's turbo 2000 SL2 (pg15 MS install time!)

[PlasticPower8500]

Officially boosted since March 24th, 2008


Alright, time to start a thread on my progress since there's no turning back now

Other things on the car:
New front bumper with custom lip coming up (old bumper in the pic)
New custom projector headlights
Leather racing seats (fully reclineable)
95 SC2 rear black leather seats
98 SL2 black door panels
IKON 17" rims


The plan is to run 7 psi of boost until the current engine blows up. Then the engine will be replaced with either reinforced engine, or just another stocker. Probably just gonna slap another stock engine in there.

As of right now, the plan is to put all the parts on the car during spring break. So far I've done some prep work and got the intercooler and some of the gauges hooked up. This car will soon get a new stock bumper with a custom front lip, and a pair of my custom projector lights.

This is the current pic of the car:


Oh, forgot the mention the GOAL. I want to piss people off!!!
Aiming for 180 whp on stock internals [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif[/img]

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Turbo:







SAFC, painted black


Old pic of the interior:


Old pic of the custom lights befor the accident:

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Ah shit, I'm broke as fuck! But I got all the parts now, almost!
Still need oil feed lines and fittings (Pimped_SC2 agreed to quote me on those) and the damn dual cooling fans. Waiting for those Ford Probes to show up at the junkyard again, their dual cooling fans are the shit.

What else, got my 97 SL2 fixed up. Burnt exhaust valve on cyl 3 still.
At least I got something that drives by the time spring break rolls around.
It's nice having a backup car, that's less reliable than the turbo project [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif[/img]

[PlasticPower8500]

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Got the gauges hooked up to power and wires routed ready to hook up to stuff under the hood. These gauges are pretty cool looking, I can change colors and it remembers the color. They can be hooked up to have different colors during day and night, but I'm too lazy to do that right now.

The gauge pillar is for the most part complete except the damn thing needs to be painted flat black eventually. Got boost, electric oil pressure and wb02. Need to place my digital temp gauge somewhere and get an EGT gauge and a narrowband gauge for the gay nb o2 sensor.

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[PlasticPower8500]

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more pics

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[PlasticPower8500]

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different colors! yay!

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[PlasticPower8500]

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and the final product

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[PlasticPower8500]

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Progress so far:

Received my steel braided oil return and feed lines with all the fittings from TunerFreak, and TurboXS BOV welded to a pipe + high impedance 30# Volvo injectors from SL2clone (they fit perfect into the fuel rail and IM!)

Hooked up the boost gauge in-line with the MAP sensor, ordered 2-step colder NGK plugs, MSD wires and EGR block-off plate.

Saturday going to go junk yard hunting for some slim cooling fans, some coolant lines for the turbo, stock ignition coils and a few interior pieces. Gonna try to pressure-wash the engine sometime in the next few days.

Put in a vacation request for a whole week between March 20-27th!! We have a date!!

Holy shit I'm excited about this

[PlasticPower8500]

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Alright, got some cooling fans off a japanese POS at the junkyard. Believe it or not, whatever car it was that I took them from used only ONE of these fan to cool the entire car. I had to find two identical cars to get my two fans [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/lol.gif[/img] They will be sandwitched between the IC and the radiator, and they were meant to go in front of the radiator. Perfect!

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Some pics of the other turbo goodies. Got the turboXS BOV. The sound clips on the internet sound mean for this bad boy!

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High-imp 30# Bosch style Volvo injectors. They fit perfect in the fuel rair and the IM!

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Got the drain lines and the electric oil pressure sender (came with gauge). Still need to get the pressure sender adapter. And need to get the oil line adapters to go into the turbo. Gonna do that once I get the turbo back.

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I have one more of these push buttons. They activate a relay. Came with a nice harness. Gonna use one for the cooling fans:

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And the new intake manifold. This will take place of the old cracked one.

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[PlasticPower8500]

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Got some more stuff in the mail today. Summitracing sent me some NGK 2-step colder plugs, a spark plug gapper, an EGR block-off plate (the wrong one, but it'll work for now) and a free hat? nice

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Here's one of the fans in front of the radiator. Those were meant to go in front of the radiator, so it works great. I just attached it to the rad using zip-ties. Lots ot zip ties. It was actually very easy.

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You can see how much space I still have before even touching the intercooler!

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Added a manual switch while I was at it:

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Was installing the new bumper today and routed the intercooler pipes:

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[PlasticPower8500]

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got the mani and downpipe from pimped sc2! came in some original packaging [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif[/img] will post better pics later, posting from my cell phone right now lol.

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[PlasticPower8500]

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I got all my shit in one spot. Here are the pics!
Also got my proper EGR block-off plate today, and lost it! Fuck. I hope it's at my homeboy's house. I drove his KLZE Probe GT today, that thing flies. If my turd is that fast turboed it'll be awesome [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif[/img]

It might not seem like I got much, that's because all the other stuff is already on the car, hooked up and ready to go. Intercooler, gauges, SAFC, cooling fans - all the BS is out of the way already.
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Log exhaust manifold by Pimped_SC2:
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2.5" Downpipe also by Pimped_SC2:
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OBX wires (mostly for looks) and NGK 2-step colder plugs and plug gapper
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Got some intercooler piping left over. Good. I'll need some piping to hack up to get everything hooked up.
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[PlasticPower8500]

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30# high impedance Volvo S70 injectors seem to fit the saturn quite nicely!
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I also realized I need oil fittings for the turbo so I ordered these:


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[JRSTANGE]

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looking good.