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Thanks man, no problem there, each to their own, I really like the bright LED’s but I know everyone’s not to same, so that’s fine, thanks for your comment!

No thank you I need the video for a lil help man an I got it an still looks good man 👍

Easy! Cheers 👍🏼

Oh that was about 286,000km roughly from memory, it probably would have been good if it was changed earlier than that too but it definitely made a noticeable difference in fuel consumption!

Thanks mate

No problem, thanks 😃

Thanks heaps buddy, that’s great to hear! And great to save on fuel too!

Yeah she’s still mint! But was only on my CA18 for a few minutes and no full boost because I didn’t have a wastegate on when I ran it!

Thank you too, from memory I used pretty much all of it, if not all just a tiny bit less than all I think 🤔

@ thanks mate very helpful. I even found the same bottle of acid at Bunnings.

Ok sweet, that’s good as it’s been more than 5 years. I got the baking powder from Aldi too!

Thanks bro, I’ll get good use out of my new ratchet for sure too 😁

Cheers 😃 luckily I’ve gotten better at editing since then too haha!

Thanks bro! That was a fun night 🤙🏼

Yeah buddy!! Thanks bro, but now I can’t wait to get my Silvia running again too! 😁

Thanks heaps, she’s still on stock turbos too!

Yeah, but I spun them in 3rd yesterday pretty easily up a slight hill, and they were a good deal 4 for $100 I think, with a reasonable amount of life left in them! They’re only 225s so not very wide, we’ll see how they go!

Thanks heaps!! It was a great night, and reminds me of my younger days taking my Silvia up on Friday nights about 18-19 years ago in 2005/06!

Thanks heaps bro, glad I finally finished editing this and probably got a bit of extra motivation after yesterdays cruise too 😁 I know when I installed the fuel pump I got rid of the factory Venturi setup so that plus pushing the car like I do is a reasonable explanation for what happened, next time I just need to put fuel in before the needle gets to 1/4 of a tank and it should be sweet 👍🏼

Yeah it was very noticeable for me, it got to about 24MPG or about 9.8lt/100km so definitely worth it!

I’m not sure now because I sold the Forester 3 years ago! But I’d say it’s still going good!

That was many years ago now and I was sent the wrong arms from the supplier, but the main arms I needed were the camber arms and the toe arms, the toe arms are the long ones at the back of the wheel and the camber is in the middle at the top, I’m not sure exactly what the short arms that are at the front of the wheel are called but they don’t have to be replaced.

I haven’t seen a genuine Garrett rebuild kit so I’m not sure if what I used was better or worse, but it seems to work fine!

No worries, it’s custom made by me, so that makes it Scuba Made haha, I only ever made the one back in 2015 a couple of years before I started this UA-cam channel!

They’re 3.969mm it seems!

Oh, I didn’t see an in line filter anywhere on my Forester though, it was an Australian delivered 2008 model so there could be differences between others I suppose!

Thank you, very much appreciated 😁

I still think it’s worth doing, I’ve had the engine out of the car for a few months now so I haven’t even started it recently, but I really like the electric pump and consider it an upgrade to the mechanical pump.

@@ScubaMade Cool thanks for the info man!

Sweet, good to hear 🤙🏼

Thank you, I hope that fixes the issue for you, and mine was a petrol, but I sold it a few years ago. It was a 2.5lt boxer 4 cylinder petrol engine ej25, non turbo.

Nah but I’d be sure to give one a go if one ever came up! I have spin a gt45 I think or might have been bigger, by hand, at WTAC last year and it was difficult to spin which made me wonder what was going on inside!

I’m not sure, I got the information from a shop called JayCar here on the Gold Coast, and went home and tried it and it worked and then I came across the same problem again so I did it again and made the video about it!

Much appreciated! 😃

Thank you too! I hope you’re getting it done today! Yeah it’s been the most difficult few years of my life and unfortunately it’s not over yet. My mum had Frontotemporal Dementia.

@@ScubaMade Yep, got it removed easy. Gotta go into to town now to get a boot for it. My dad has Vascular dementia. His health is utterly awful but he keeps on going. LoL. It's hardest on mum but we're all chipping in to help out. Just remember to take time to look after yourself as well and take respite, you can't pour from an empty cup.

Glad you’re getting it done! And yeah I’m lucky I love my cars because without that I don’t know how I could handle this time of life.

Yeah most things here have doubled in price too unfortunately, but the cheapest wheel cleaner around here (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia) is about $15 and I wish we could get that LA cleaner here even if it was like $5 it would still be awesome!

That’s awesome to hear, thanks heaps! Glad you enjoyed it 😃

I think it’s a bit better than the old one, I’ve done 2 track days now and it’s been going good! Still gets pretty high IAT’s, but probably because of the stock turbos on 20psi.

Any lag?

Not much on stock turbos but there’s a lot of heat coming off them with higher boost!

Haha yeah probably, but she works perfectly and is all balanced up now too!

Damn, rx7 FD? Sounds good! And no that turbo has water cooling, there’s 2 on each side, so you can plug one on each side for in and out or you can plug 2 on one side and make in and out on the same side!

Oh that’s a good idea! I’ve only ever brought 2 of these and luckily they both worked for me! But I like having spare stuff too!

Thank you too! That’s awesome to hear!

No problem at all, that’s probably better than my dodgy repair anyway haha! Thanks!

I think it was about 56,000 miles roughly, or about 90 or 91,000 km’s! Yeah it’s much easier to do while replacing the clutch!

Aww thanks heaps!! That’s awesome, I have ACL .040 84mm forged pistons, I built it in November 2007 and I can’t remember exactly who did the boreing but it was a machine shop here on the Gold Coast and I believe it was done to spec. I’ve got CP .020 83.5mm forgies for my new build which I’m currently working on! I got my power FC from Canada back in 2006 of eBay in the early days haha! Hopefully my new build will be up and running better than ever soon🤞🏼

Yeah and that’s why I tested them on the bench too!

Haha thanks heaps! Glad it was able to help you! Yeah, people probably shouldn’t own an N54 if they don’t plan to do some work on it!

Aww man, thank you heaps buddy! So glad I got her out again and for Haydens event! I’m in the process of building a new engine now and I hope she sounds exactly the same if not better!

Cheers 😁🤙🏼

I just got it to be flat with the aluminum around it! I didn’t feel it bottom out, it was very tight to go in anyway.

Ohh really! That’s cool, and they’re about 1/3rd of the price new too!

My dream finally came true ay! I’m working on building a new motor nowadays too so I can make it all happen again!!

@@ScubaMade keep the 2835 though please 👍

Yeah definitely!!! I love that turbo, and the compressor housing is perfect 👌🏼

@@ScubaMade I think I mentioned it previously, but I bought a couple after seeing your rebuild video. I got two of the 2835's, and I found a 3031 pro s which used the same compressor housing. I'm going to build that one up for a rwd 3sgte.

@@ScubaMade I have this fascination with old hks stuff, so I buy and collect all the old turbos, bovs, wastegate, etc

Thanks buddy, for me it was just cheaper to buy, I couldn’t find any twin plate cheaper than the one I brought and it was good enough to do what I wanted it to do! And so far it’s holding up really well!

@@ScubaMade Yea ok. On xtreme website it only has 200mm for 6 bolt. I got quoted $2814 for 230mm and though F that and thinking of a plan B currently

Yeah that’s way too expensive, I paid about $1800 from memory, in 2021, I think the 230mm organic ones were about $2300-$2400 at the time. I hope there’s something good for the N54s from uniclutch, I’m not sure if there is yet or not.

Cheers 😃 I almost wanted to do the ring gaps in the same spot but I just tried to make them about the same as how they were when I pulled it apart, but 45° on opposite sides sounds good too! I use my vice as a press because I don’t have a press, I’ve done all my turbos like that, it seems to work really good! It’s about $160aud for a balance here on the Gold Coast at the moment, and he has a very good balance machine as far as I know!

@@ScubaMade Oh I just didn't see the step where you actually pressed the turbine back through the bearings then. Bench vise is totally acceptable. $160 is just over $100 American, so matches about the cheapest I can find here, except I'd have to pay shipping both ways too of course. Oh I also meant to ask if he mentioned how badly out of balance it was before balancing. Thanks again!

Ok yeah it’s pretty lucky I can just drive less than 30min from home straight to the shop! I believe he said it was 6grams out of balance when he started, which is quite high! And he couldn’t quite get it under 1g which he normally does with all the other turbos I’ve had balanced.

Most the turbos I’ve seen with oil starvation have cracked the rear cage closest to the exhaust wheel and the most heat, that turbo didn’t have any signs of oil starvation but my thoughts are a slight balance or vibration of the compressor wheel and/or the fact no blow of valve was used which I forgot to mention, the turbo was definitely good as it was heavily used for over 2 years I believe! Definitely still a good turbo!

@@ScubaMade True, the cage being in tact means it definitely could have been worse. I was thinking small debris causing a partial blockage, so the center section just wasn't getting enough oil as opposed to none at all. Imbalance is possible of course, but it's funny I was talking to a friend right before seeing this video about how in failure analysis videos it almost never seems to come down to balance. No BOV will contribute to a shorter life, but so many people don't run one on high HP cars and the turbos live a long time. Definitely hard to say in this case! Thanks for the reply.

No problem, thank you too! I’ve had a few good chats with the balancer and that helps me come up with some options. Even what he told me after balancing still makes me think it could have had something to do with balancing, but I guess we’ve got no actual way to prove it so it’s just speculation.

Oh ok, but the inlet manifold comes off fairly easily and I’ve never removed the alternator so I don’t know which one’s more work!

@@ScubaMade Remove the drive belt, Remove the electrical connections, 4 bolts and the alternator is off!

Yeah probably a similar amount of time to just remove the manifold, but I don’t own an N52 anymore so I don’t need to worry about it! I probably need to remove the manifold on my N54 to clean to carbon build up in the head from the direct injection.