Friday, December 12, 2008

Daihatsu YRV Turbo Powerup


Daihatsu YRV Turbo Powerup

Daihatsu decided that the YRV will come with a small and mighty turbo, a nicely sized intercooler to squeeze into a small chassis, a small 1.3L engine to give the bigger engines a run for their money.

What we did to this car is to re-tune the car, fix up the disturbing settings inside the emanage blue, solder up those wire and connections, fix in the proper sensors and connectors, remove custom soldering which make the piggyback unit look like what Greddy designers intended for it to look like on the drawing boards and brochures.

There was wiring problems which causes problem to the car and we checked to ensure his existing 2 wrx injectors are working. Yes yes... i know, dun need 2 wrx sub-injectors. Sam say not he install one... hahaha... Anyway, the owner paid quite a high price for these injectors installed, more ex. than Sam lor... hahaha...

On the menu, we have a free flowing exhaust system, open pod air filter, walboro fuel pumps, profec-B boost controller and many many more.

You know, the owner has been given so much wrong information by different people, so much until even what we say at times are quite meaningless. The only was to convince ourselves is to give each other a chance and show what we meant to say through action.

I too had my confidence shaken. Owner actually raced with a 1.6 Lancer GLX with racing clutch and final drive modified, no tuning and he lost. The question is whether our YRV after all the fix up can win this 1.6 lancer. Frankly, I do not doubt the previous tuner but, all I can do is to give it my best shot, put in my share of the effort and see the score.

After tuning, we boost 1.x bar at high boost and 0.8 bars at low boost. Immediately, owner arrange for a race.

He used to be running on Apexi AVCR boost controller, but was asked to use something else by the previous tuner. hmm... ok, we made good the profec-B, the best way we do.

Its a pity the Lancer wasnt able to make it lor... instead, he arranged with a modified EK4. OMG!! And the deal is that is he were to be on par with the EK, that will mean a win for YRV against the lancer.

Ok, at 40 tiang, both cars pitted. On the third horn, they sprint. Gear 1, the EK4 shoots in front like no tomorrow. Due to the racing clutch in the EK 4, I think NASA's Apollo 13 rocket also lose to the EK lor... Owner only wanted to benchmark how many car length he will lose to the EK4 before preparing for the lancer.

Owner was 3 cars behind the EK on launch. Finally, the Automatic transmission in the YRV engages the engine and propels the car forward. Once the YRV turbo engages gear 2, the high boost and engine starts to roar through the free flowing exhaust system. Short of flames coming out of the rocket pads, the YRV catches up instantly to the EK4.

Owner's YRV turbo enagages Gear 3. And was unable to pull away from the EK4, engine continues to work like fark, and waits for the engagement of gear 4. In gear 4, the YRV turbo barely inches ahead of the EK4 will 190 km/h. If only he had a bigger turbo, the YRV would have won.

Owner rests his medallion. Mix feeling swells up from within, puffing away on his Viceroy menthol. The if-only turbo was bigger feeling was frustrating but the unimaginable par on the EK4 race manages a smile on his face.

That night, there was the EG6, EG9 and ESI. The new found confidence swells greatly within. The long pent up humiliation from them and all the scorning remark from them made his racing skill that evening formidable. One by one, he slaughters the EG6, EG9 and ESI.

The ESI is the worst of the lot. Only the EK4, the YRV medallion boosted 1.x bars of boost. Which the rest of the pinions, they deserve only his low boost of 0.8 bars.

ESI lost by 1 chicken farm length! That lost humiliated the esi so much as to accuse the YRV of dropping in a bigger engine and bigger turbo. Unconvinced of the lost, esi immediately went to ST powDered that very next day to have his Hondata retuned and a rematch is underway.

None of them agreed to our instructions to race only on rolling start. The YRV turbo has great disadvantage due to the Auto transmission. I respect the owner's sporting attitude to race from stationery with all the cars that evening.

That night, the YRV turbo was reborned. We still have a few more things to touch up on. Just a little bit more to perfection. kekeke.... Sam complains he is too tired liaoz... hahaha as usual...

Congratulation to the YRV Turbo. You made Daihatsu and all of us proud!

I encouraged the owner to keep everything stock for a few months until he get bored. Coz, winning using a stock engine with all that is inside is definately the intention of Daihatsu.

Whats on the makan list for this ride...
bigger turbo
bigger intercooler (if got enough space)
forged pistons
forged conrods

verdict:
Extreme fun.

YRV turbo is tuned using Emanage Blue.


coming soon...
1. mx-5 upgraded intercooler
2. Gerald's Subaru wrx with TD06-22G turbo
3. Mazda 3 Turbo with Unichip
4. Daihatsu YRV turbo
5. Subaru Forester 2008 Model with Bigger Turbo

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Alan's Subaru WRX 2.5L PowerUp TD05-20G

Alan's Subaru WRX 2.5L PowerUp TD05-20G


The past setup is perfect for 20 tiang races, running a VF28 powerplant on stock internal have brought much glory and wins for the owner. Now, the lack of top end power has been bugging the owner for a long time and the desire to run 30 tiangs itch has caught up and convincing enought to go for a 30 tiang turbo. We dropped in a TD05-20G, a similar turbo as the new Lancer Evo 10.

A scheduled race has been setup and the need to setup the car in time for that race get our hands and hearts pumping.

The TD05-20G in a wrx has to be carefully crafted, the diameters of the piping and core size of the new front mount intercooler is very important, modification has also been made to the bumper areas to ensure air gushes through the intercooler and not around it.

Car has been setup with twin plate carbon racing clutch, fmic, td05-20G turbo, big injectors, and tuned using ecu reflash method. Full boost at 3500 rpm!

Here goes, on the first run with the Evo 10, both cars launched great. Our rex owner is very skilled in this lor... he is one of the better driver around, skill wise, I must admit, he can make a 300 horsepower ride perform like a 380 bhp ride. No doubt about that. Gear shifts is quick and exact, accurate shift points to ensure maximum horsepower is churn from the motor.

On launch, our rex is in front. Gear 1, 2, 3, 4.... on 4, we are already 1 chicken farm length away from Evo 10. Hahaha. Kudos to Alan!!hahaha!!

Ok, now, Evo driver is a young chap, he say his gearbox la, this la that la... then rematch lor.... Ok round 2....

On the 3 horn, both car will sprint forward as usual. But this time, on the second horn, the Evo launches leaving the rex waiting for the 3rd horn... oi yoh... remember inidial D? The dimbo kallang kabot one lor... second horn choing hahaha... anyway. Its really funny for Evo to do this kind of this lor... lucky got video to show hahaha. Our rex lost this round by 1 car length. And Evo cannot pull away.

Lets take a closer look at the Evolution 10. You have a Mivec twin cams anti lag system inbuilt in that motor. You have excellent traction control, you have a very very short extractor to ensure the turbo have almost no lag as compared to rex. This Evo10 comes with modified high lift cams, boosted up to 2 bars and tuned by XXX.

Hardware, i must admit the rex loses by far to the Evo10's hardware. But, driver's skill plays the most important difference in this race.

With a stock wrx internals, our rex in the hands of a potent driver can certainly do us proud.

Next on the makan list, our rex is looking to rebuild his engine to go 1.9bar from his existing low boost setup.... Yes. He won the evo 10 on low boost. Driver skill makes up the loses in bhp... kekekeke... Kudos!

coming soon...
1. mx-5 upgraded intercooler
2. Gerald's Subaru wrx with TD06-22G turbo
3. Subaru Forester 2008 model with VF28 Turbo
4. Mazda 3 Turbo with Unichip