Not on yet but here it is:



Sorry I havn't posted in forever, but its been a little hectic lately.

Moved w/ new job
Turbo delivered to old address
New house failed inspection
Hotel for 3 wks
Found different house
CL has window broken 1st night in new house
Turbo found and shipped to new address
CL window's fixed
Got internet access

Tomorrow...Window re-tint and turbo install.

Here's another:

Bad ass!

Looking very good...can't wait to hear/see about the results from that turbo being on...good luck

CL'S

I was wondering what had happened to you.
Turbo looks great!!! Good luck installing it.
I can't wait to see what #'s you put down after tunning it.

I still haven't installed my h22 yet . Hopefully be in before the end of the month.

Oh and congrats on the new job and house.

can we say fawkin' huge pics? cant wait to see that sh*t on ur car; better yet, cant wait to see that sh*t dynoed.

Welcome back!

I figured you would "return" announcing that the turbo was installed, and quoting your 1/4 miles times.

I'm glad that you finally got the turbo.

Sorry to hear about the CL and the house.

Congrats on the new job and the new house.

Havn't found a local track, but theres a dyno less than a mile away......

hey dude, nice car u have there. i am very impressed with it.
i have a 97 2.2 CL too. care to tell me how much it cost you for the turbo plus the installation.
thanks dude

Look out Rick I think you have some competition.

dude that is phat..i have been looking for one for my car forever....care to tell me who you bought it through????

Its a FMAX kit.

Heres a pic of what took place today. Gonna wait till its all done and post the rest on my sight.

mad props to ya

what psi you aimin at?

Tight, how much all that set you back? What company did you go with? Was it a easy bolt on? What are your times at? I wonder what you would do against my 75 shot of NOS? hummm interesting I like shit's tight.

dude, what's that red bar do? (the one at the very top of ur last picture?) it sure don't look stock.

That's his strut bar painted red (looks very nice).

NIce Turbo. U installing everything urself? What psi u running?bet u have some parts for sale like intake and headers...

CLgenius: whats the other thing under ur pioneer deck? ( i was looking at ur site and wondered what that was?

The wastegate spring is set at .65 bar which ~ 9.5 psi.

The boost controller wont let me go any lower than that so I'll run 9.5 daily and 12 or so on the track/dyno.

The FMAX kit was $3600 from mechasports.

Its going together OK so far. I'll do the install stuff on my web sight.

Time's....too early to tell.

As far as nitrous... I dont have to open a bottle and itll never have to be filled.

Hated to do it to her but...had to cut a little bit.

more pics

What are you gonna do with your suspension ? almost everyone who had turbo with stock suspension blew their stuff up !

Come up to Chicago!
I'm pretty much speachless on the turbo thing
can't wait to hear about your results.

BTW where did you live before Peoria??? Did you move for a job? cuz there ain't shit down there.

What does one have to do with the other?

too much pressure on stock shocks cause of soo much power and they pop ......duh

.

Damn!

I just noticed that you moved from GA to IL!!!!

Quite a change!

Moved with the same Co. Moved to GA as a temporary agreement.

There's a hell of a lot more up here (IL) than south GA. Here I have dyno just around the corner and several speed shops. There we had nothing but peanut fields and cotton.

Got a garage w/ this house.....right now I'm living out there. :P

how does that happen?

maybe the axles would go because of too much strain on the u-joints, but i have never heard of struts breaking because anyone had a turbo

beseides...... a his turbo kit and the rest of the accesories weigh only about 50 lbs at the most.

More pics of the oil supply and return. Will be ready to dyno this weekend.

Your turbo is awsome. Let me guess, you work for cat. By the way I went to school in peoria (BU). Do people still cruise the strip on weekends?

How long are our stock internals going to last with the high compression of the engine+turbo?

9 psi should be fine on stock internals and 91+ octane.

hes got the kit intercooled also so i dont think the stock internals should be doing too bad.

only thing i would worry about would be a boost spike (altho the ball and spring on the external wastegate should not let it spike)


looks like a nice set-up.

what kinda turbo is it again? T3/T4?

There was some guy on this board not too long who said that he blew his piston rings within the first 2 weeks of turboing his 2.3. I forget his name, but he put in an H22 (and posted pics) and then turboed it just recently. So I wonder if the same thing would happen.

I dont think he had bigger injectors, boost dependant fuel pressure regulator, vafc, and dyno tuned the setup.

Every engine is different, but we'll see.

How much hp are you expecting from 9psi?

same thing i'm wondering
maybe 75???

I never said 9. I have no idea. I dynoed 143 to the wheels minus the VAFC and the lightened flywheel.

Keep us posted.