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Hey All,
In the past some of you guys wanted to see my set up. Well I just had a few minutes to build a cheap little webiste. There you will find some pictures on the turbolocity.com kit installed on my car.
It is not much of a website, given the time I have to work on it but I serves its purpose, check it out:
http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~josue/TurboSaleen.html
-Josue
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The first 2000 Turbo Saleen
Posts: 32 | From: Northern Cali. | Registered: Dec 2002
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93PONY
Mr. Valve Events
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Sweet!
Couple of questions...
What size turbo? 60MM?
Did you do the install yourself? If so, how was it?
Any dyno/tuning yet? Show these 4.6 blower boys what a mild turbo setup can do!
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Posts: 4266 | From: Fair Oaks, CA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Looks good ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif)
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Joshs Ford
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Heres the pic so people dont have to go to the site:)
Awsome car man!!! ![[worship]](graemlins/worship.gif)
Josh
[ March 12, 2003, 09:27 PM: Message edited by: Chico Stang ]
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Do you have any #'s or times? Car is fuc*ing sweet man, damn good job.
Josh
Posts: 692 | From: San Ramon CA, | Registered: Jan 2002
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Hey Josh and 93 Pony,
I hope this answers your questions.
Impression:
The quality and customer service are top notch, from one to ten I give them a ten. All the issues I had are due to the car being a Saleen vehicle. Check them out at turbolocity.com
Installation:
The install took longer than I thought and the guys installing it charged way too much (in short on the install side I got ripped off). The installation was professionally done though there are some areas that could have been done with more care. For example when the battery was installed in the trunk, they did not do a good job, hence no picture until I fix that.
Feel of the car:
The car feels stock; until you get on it that you feel the turbo kick in. The car pulls strong even though it is running rich, full boost kicks in at about 3500 RPM. On long highway trips, when in cruise control my mileage when up 19~20 Mpg!!! I can’t say the same when I feel the need for speed.
Issues:
The car has been running rich due to a Saleen computer module problem. Right now I am waiting on a GT chip to replace the Saleen module and a Y-pipe fix. Brad at totalperormance.com has given nothing but top-notch customer service. Heck If I had another 5 gran I buy his turbo kit for my 94 Cobra. Enjoy the pictures, feel free to e-mail with any questions or comments at gluelogic@yahoo.com
-Josue
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Posts: 32 | From: Northern Cali. | Registered: Dec 2002
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Eddie510-
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yeah what does it run?and your top speed?
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Sweet, I didn't know there was a turbo 4.6 around here. Where are you from? How much boost are you pushing? Any dyno numbers?
[ March 12, 2003, 10:04 PM: Message edited by: st5150 ]
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quote:
Originally posted by st5150:
Sweet, I didn't know there was a turbo 4.6 around here. Where are you from? How much boost are you pushing? Any dyno numbers?
Yea, I 2nd that question. Along with how long you think that saleen stock bottom end will hold out. I am not familiar with what saleen does to the bottom end, thought just upperend things.
Josh
Posts: 692 | From: San Ramon CA, | Registered: Jan 2002
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quote:
Originally posted by Chico Stang:
I am not familiar with what saleen does to the bottom end, thought just upperend things.
Josh
Unless you have a 281-E your bottom-end is stock ![[Wink]](wink.gif) .
Beautiful setup btw .
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Posts: 514 | From: San Franpsycho | Registered: Oct 2000
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sweet car. btw, it looks like your turbo housing is cracked in some of those pics!
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Posts: 6785 | From: San Jose | Registered: Jun 2001
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Hey Chico Stang,
I don’t have any #’s or times, the car is still running with the Saleen computer and that is causing my car to run too rich . Saleen bumps the timing and runs richer, and with the turbo chip that skews things, as soon as I get this resolved I will dyno the car. I don’t feel safe driving the car around for too long until I know it is running right. As of today I have about 1200 miles on it since the turbo.
Ohh and the bottom end is stock, as my goal was to make the car somewhat fast high 12 low 13 second 1/4 mile car. I hope to keep it as authentic as possible aside form the turbo.
Eddie510,
Right now I need to address the tuning issue. I will let you know when I take it to the track.
St5150,
I am currently running 7 lb of boost, and no, no dyno numbers yet.
When the kit was dynoed, on a Roush here is what they came up with
See http://www.nothingbutperformance.com/96-02GT2vturbokit.asp
“After 5 months of research and development, the 2v turbo kit is finally finished with results that are even better than we had hoped. The test car made 31 dyno passes back to back during 93deg weather with only a fan on blowing on the intercooler and never got over 203 degrees on the coolant temp and 111 degrees on the ACT at the throttle body. The car had the driveability of a stock Mustang and was perfectly safe on the A/F. We managed to get 434 horse and 547 torque at the wheels using 92 octane fuel and 8psi. To top it off, the car only had a safe 12 degrees of timing and was on a bone stock engine with 2.25" side pipe mufflers. We did detune the car from there to the dyno sheet below for safety. This kit is also upgradeable to as large as a T76 turbo as well as many other options. Please feel free to call us if you have any questions. “
Let me know if you have any further questions.
-Josue
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Posts: 32 | From: Northern Cali. | Registered: Dec 2002
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You should talk to www.racesystems.com about getting it locally tuned right. He has experience in dealing with Saleen EEC's.
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Hey Shade-Tree,
Humm, Yeah it does look like it in one of the pictures, but that from some tar like silicon stuff that dripped on to the turbo jacket from the top oil line. When I took off the jacket it smeared the turbo housing. You scared me... I almost ran out side to take a look.
-Josue
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The first 2000 Turbo Saleen
Posts: 32 | From: Northern Cali. | Registered: Dec 2002
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JoeT
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If you can't take it well into the 11's you've got driving issues ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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1984 Ford Tempo AOD--- RIP
Posts: 6785 | From: San Jose | Registered: Jun 2001
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