M50 turbo touring nearly finished!

[james3320]

A few new pics of my m50 turbo, should be on the road this week,
had it on the dyno last week and got 315bhp at only 7psi, plenty more to come...

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[oakey]

Beast!
Where abouts are you?

[aceraf]

[fuzzy]

nice. and its a touring

[james3320]

Beast!
Where abouts are you?

bury st edmunds in suffolk

[appletree]

Looks perposful

[DanThe]

Done much to the internals?

[james3320]

Done much to the internals?

yep,
je forged pistons 8.5-1 comp, steel h beam rods, steel headgasket, arp bolts throughout, stress relived bottom end, m20 lightend flywheel wilth helix paddle clutch, head and cams are standard for the time being..

[motorsport325i]

looks mean!! you can tell by looking at it, that its rapid!

[E30BeemerLad]

looks quite a weapon, plenty of trick bits.

Is she a proper handfull then?

[bmwbreaker]

this looks absolutly mental.... LOVE IT

[alloyproducts]

the car is very quick, i provided all the alloy products for it, even the inlet manifold which was hand made, and also helped with the emerald ecu. was at the dyno with james and it sounded lovely, hardly any lag with that turbo. enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing.

[Pal318is]

That looks fookin mental

[e30_Turbo]

Hey James!

Looking good buddy!!

How did you get on with MOT?

Mines in tomorrow @ 0800, bloody laptop failed last night so have to get another beforehand.

I'll buzz you before I pop over later in the week, best get some more miles done so we can go hunting

I'll show your buddy the pipes I want to swap and change about too.

Fozz.

[d6dph]

**Wants**

[Sy_325]

this is awesome! bound to be an absolute monster!!

what turbo manifold did you use? was it custom made??

[james3320]

thanks for all the good comments

this is awesome! bound to be an absolute monster!!

what turbo manifold did you use? was it custom made??

the turbo manifold is a tubonetics bottom mount for a lefthand drive, i turned it upsidedown and had a half inch flange cut to space it from the head and used double gaskets, then just had to make the adaptor between the manifold and turbo, all seems to be workin well

[aceraf]

enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing. Wink

315bhp and it can go another 150bhp aswell

[james3320]

enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing. Wink

315bhp and it can go another 150bhp aswell

yep back to the dyno on the 3rd july for more tuning and more boost!

[JGG1]

That looks the nuts mate!! Got any video links of it in action??

[BMracing]

Hi James, just noticed you're in bury too!
Your car looks so nice, and what a powerplant! I'll keep an eye our for it.

the car is very quick, i provided all the alloy products for it, even the inlet manifold which was hand made, and also helped with the emerald ecu. was at the dyno with james and it sounded lovely, hardly any lag with that turbo. enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing.

Nigel, brett says wake up!!!

[james3320]

Had the car mapped again last week and put the boost up to 1.4 bar now making 451bhp and 400lbft torque!
the air inlet temp is getting to hot so with a bigger intercooler and a bit more boost should see over 500bhp!

went to retro car show at santapod yesterday and got a 12.8 115mph
on 215 crap tyres! should easily be able to nock a second of it with good rubber

[GrindCulture]

[d6dph]

This thing sounds awesome!

[butcher]

awesome as hell

[Jhonno]

This gives me naughty thoughts..

[fuzzy]

This gives me naughty thoughts..

dont you need to fit your engine first?

[Jhonno]

I have a taxed, mot'd (and driving) M50'd e30..

The S50 has been pulled for a rebuild..

[fuzzy]

I have a taxed, mot'd (and driving) M50'd e30..

The S50 has been pulled for a rebuild..

oh yes, i remember now. my mistake

[BigBavarian]

James, i am still grinning from going out in your car on friday night after everyone left, your car is the most awesome thing i have been in, feels faster than a bike for sure! People have been commenting about the rubber at the end of the run way - nothing to do with us officer!

Have a nice retro LHD cab waiting for you to do your turbo magic to - 2.8 sport engine, lsd, box.......
Come on , you know you want to!

Thanks to everyone who came on friday, hope you all had a good time, we would like to see the pics any of you took as mine didn't come out all to well, email them to our website address and we can post them on our gallery page.

James, this car is fantastic, come and work with us!

[alloyproducts]

heres another pic of mine and james cars together at his farm.



looks like i will be busy sorting a bigger intercooler out for this thing. its definatly one of the quickest cars ive been in. and that was before the remap. think we will also be sorting out the full throttle gear change on the ecu.

[d6dph]

James, i am still grinning from going out in your car on friday night after everyone left, your car is the most awesome thing i have been in, feels faster than a bike for sure!

Whaaat! No fair. I want to go out in it, I'll bring my own nappies & everything

[oze30]

hey James.. nice car!! That's given me naughty thoughts too! Hmm..
Big Bavarian.. Welcome to the Zone!!! ;)I'll be in touch with the dimensions. Was it Alloy Products you were talking about?

[ricey46]

Nice!!! an ///M5 muncher in the making!!! Awsome!! Video clip please!!!

[rob0r]

http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index ... read=43090

Your car is being discussed , thought I'd give aheads up.