Project Porting! Pics! - Page 2

Swifty1638 · 09-27-2007

Steve's just going back to "old people" creature comforts. Couldn't hang with the young blood of little shits like me! But, don't get it wrong, the car will be just as fast as it's been. 12's...zing!
lol
-A. Swift

Kevin 1G Drummer · 09-27-2007

You either need to remove the heat shield and show of that pretty manifold, or get a cool looking stainless one. Just my 2 cents. Good job with the porting. It's always nice to see people getting their hands dirty and doing it themselves.

**scheides** · 09-27-2007

Ya I kinda like having the stock shield there. The silver shineyness underneath is a bit of a giveaway, but keeps things nice and stock looking. The purpose of the coating was to keep underhood temps down and heat energy in the exhaust gases going full-boar into the turbo, not for bling!

TkrPerformance · 09-28-2007

looks realy good

FattyBoomBatty · 09-28-2007

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Originally Posted by scheides

Ya I kinda like having the stock shield there. The silver shineyness underneath is a bit of a giveaway, but keeps things nice and stock looking. The purpose of the coating was to keep underhood temps down and heat energy in the exhaust gases going full-boar into the turbo, not for bling!

I like it how you have it. Porting is fun. Do you have all hard I/C pipes?

Kevin 1G Drummer · 09-28-2007

I understand the purpose of the coating, I just don't really like the way the stock heat shields look.

**scheides** · 01-10-2008

Looky what I got today! Time to start grinding again....

I've also added an OEM IX turbo to the mix of this project....

brando · 01-10-2008

woot woot for the beagle

<<fellow beagle owner except mines a fat lazy bastard

FattyBoomBatty · 01-11-2008

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Originally Posted by brando

woot woot for the beagle

<<fellow beagle owner except mines a fat lazy bastard

Those pics are from a long time ago!

**scheides** · 01-11-2008

Ya that's my dog Turbo, he's kinda the site mascot at events and whatnot

Beagles are awesome!

sleepydsm · 01-11-2008

I just cleaned up my 14B last night. It really helps to use nice solid carbide bits. I "borrowed" them from school and they HOG through cast iron in no time. I then used a porting kit that consisted of sand paper drums to smooth out everything. Looks good!

**scheides** · 01-11-2008

I just figured out how to do an EGR delete using a standard DSM block-off plate and a quick hack to the stock ECU:

add to <romid>.xml file in EcuFlash:

<table name="ECU Periphery2" category="ECUPeriphery" address="fca" type="1D" level="1" scaling="Hex16"/>

Then change the value to '0xEDDF' for ECU Periphery2 in Ecuflash. Thanks to MrFred on EvolutionM for this. This will clean up my engine bay nicely!

I also just ordered some high-pressure throttle-body seals from works!

FattyBoomBatty · 01-11-2008

Way to pollute! j/k. I think that's awesome how you can go in an mess around with stuff in your ecu.

**scheides** · 02-07-2008

I got my intake manifold and throttle body back from buschur racing yesterday. There was a mixup and they shipped it a week after they told me they did, and before I could even think of complaining, they OVERNIGHTED it to me. I love those guys.

Here's some pics of the throttle body. This is just a stock TB that's been bored out to a full 65mm all the way through, and a new butterfly installed. Sitting next to the stocker it looks similar at the opening, but the stock one gets smaller as it goes thowards the butterfly.

This is bolted to the ported manifold, 65mm also. Wide open all the way through!

Next to the stock, unported TB. Same from the outside, but the butterfly on the left is bigger:

more angles:
http://www.scheides.com/gallery/evo-intakemani/IMG_5104
http://www.scheides.com/gallery/evo-intakemani/IMG_5105

Here is a rough comparison of the size difference between the 65mm stuff and the stock, unported manifold inlet (using my thumbnail for size reference):

X Factor · 02-07-2008

Good stuff... proflow is doing some throttle body porting + new butterfly for the 4G as well... it's 250 including shipping I think and has proven gains of at least 5-6whp, one kid posted 17wtq difference in 4th gear on an auto as well.

Looks cool, if you don't mind me asking what does Buschur charge for that? So I can compare to proflow, and also what kind of gains are you looking at with it?

**scheides** · 02-07-2008

The intake manifold runners are ported out a bit as well, port matched to the head.

Again with the vague size comparison:

And some closeup pics of the portwork:

**scheides** · 02-07-2008

While I'm doing this, since I figured out how to remove the EGR checks in the ECU (see above post), I am ditching the EGR valve, the charcoal canister, and the lines associated with them. Should clean up the engine bay a little bit:

ditching this bracket as well:

Goodbye POS that cut the hell out of my hand!!!

Finally, an action shot of this little project....I love my 4G63 so much that I like to hug my engine and sing to it....'hold me closer Tony Daaaaannnzaaaaaa!!!!'

I stopped smiling soon after this, as I began dropping sockets and bolts into the subframe as I began to install the new manifold. I then broke off one of the bolts in the head, what a fcking b*tch of a job. Oh well!

TkrPerformance · 02-07-2008

looks good

**scheides** · 02-07-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by X Factor

Good stuff... proflow is doing some throttle body porting + new butterfly for the 4G as well... it's 250 including shipping I think and has proven gains of at least 5-6whp, one kid posted 17wtq difference in 4th gear on an auto as well.

Looks cool, if you don't mind me asking what does Buschur charge for that? So I can compare to proflow, and also what kind of gains are you looking at with it?

This is just a basic port job on the intake manifold, porting the runners and boring out the inlet to 65mm was $75. The TB conversion/boring was $300, I could have had it done for $300, but I would not have done this if I had not seen Dave Buschur post the solid whp gains from this little project, so I commited myself to give my money to him, instead of the other guys undercutting him and posting zero proven power gain results.

I am expecting a SOLID 15whp from the IM/TB combo, through the entire rev range. This will complete my porting project. With the exhaust mani (5-10whp), SS o2 housing (10-15whp), and this, I am hoping for a full gain of 30-45whp. My car made 295whp on just pump gas, so I'd expect ~330whp. I also bolted on the Evo IX turbo though as well, which is rumored to be upwards of +20whp, so I have set a semi-realistic goal of 335whp on straight pump gas, and have lofty dreams of 375whp with alky. We will see when I re-tune this thing.

User Name · 02-07-2008

So you have the know-how on going into your EcuFlash and changing properties and values? Or were you grabbing information gathered elsewhere? That's pretty frickin' awesome that you are able to do that stuff in the ECU on them things.

Looks like you're going to have yourself a sweet ass sleeper in the near future with some good power!