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Hi guys, I have bought a kpm 700hp intank pump, it's a 540lph anti surge unit and it came with a replacement hi flow stock looking fuel regulator. Its advertised as a plug in unit, no wiring upgrades necessary. I thought it would have needed a wiring upgrade due to being a much higher flowing pump. What do you guys think or know? Also if I install this can I drive it without a tune? I still have stock fg injectors, I'm waiting on id1050x injectors. Thanks for all replys.

Have you seen the kelpro seals leak @JETURBO?

Wasn't today, but the other day Ford quoted me $95 incl gst for a crank seal, then they said oh we will do for trade price of $69, I got a kelpro seal at repco for $12, man Ford is a friggin rip

So I ended up making dump pipe out of 4 inch black steam pipe bends, 1 long radius 90 bend and 1 short radius 90 bend. I used the stock dump bracing brackets, I welded some bits of 10mm thick flat steel to the dump pipe to mate up to the brackets. It's all worked out real good. I couldn't get 3.5 inch steam pipe bends so thanks @FiftyOne now il have maximum street cred lol. And it looks seriously bulletproof, she won't be cracking anytime soon.

So I'm making my own dump pipe, I was intending on making it out of 4inch steam pipe bends for durability, it will fit but it's a tight squeeze, now I think I will make it out of 3.5 inch steam pipe, it will be lighter and have much better clearances and pretty sure won't restrict power up to 400rwkw, I'm going to run a 45mm turbosmart external wg and plumb it back in right down the bottom where the exhaust runs flat under car.

Great thanks jet, you are mr helpful👍

Just putting my engine back together, and noticed at the back of engine right in the middle, a hard plastic tube about 3-4mm I d poking up and it curls over against firewall, it looks like it comes off top of zf trans. Is it a breather tube for the trans? And is supposed to go onto anything or just hang about with end to atmosphere? I never spotted it when I took it all apart. Anyone know?

Awesome thanks fellas

@BeerTurbo I like the j pipe, but intake, outlet, oil and water lines would all need modifying in my case.

My car has 30,000kms on it, so shall I just leave them?

@BeerTurbo do you know of other gate set ups like your territory one that work well? It looks good What's wrong with stock engine mounts? What aftermarket ones are best?

Would you go off the bottom side of the manifold with wastegate pipe?

I'm about to start setting up external wastegate, should I plumb it off stock manifold or off my v band 1.06 turbine housing?

My mechanic pointed out the 12 spot welds on the inside bottom lip that I think I need to trim, he said it's quite a structural bit, I suggested we could trim it back and re-spot weld to keep it legal, I might do that.

Yea it did, didnt say anything about cutting crash bar a bit though, I did ring Kevin at p west also and said they fit, but ofcourse they would say that. I will have another look.

Has anyone fitted a pw stage 2 cooler to a 2015 fgx xr6 turbo? Did you have to cut the inside bottom lip of the crash bar half an inch or so to make it fit? It looks like its gonna be a major squeeze. Iv got the rad out and air con core and p steer core are loose.

I dont want to do work to zf or driveline if I can help it.

Took the head off today to retrieve the valve that fell through into cylinder while changing springs, clocked up 34th hour of work on car so far for this big monster garage project, probably another 34 to go lol. Ordered atomic 12mm headstuds and oversize 28mm washers too. I'm doing atomic oil pump, valve springs, headstuds by default which is probably not a bad thing, bigger turbo, pw stg 2 cooler, 1050cc injectors, kpm 700hp intank fuel pump, 4 inch turbo back exhaust up to the 3inch flange that goes to 2 and a quarter pipes. 45mm turbosmart gate off the housing plumbed back downstream. I'm going for a strong reliable 350 to 370rwkw.

Cool, so it shouldn't bind? Valve hole is 5.5mm, can you buy long magnets that thin?

Its definitely in cylinder, no valve to be seen thru exhaust port, I turned crank lightly clockwise a little bit and it stopped, I think piston may be binding on valve.

Well today I got back into changing valve springs, all was going well until I got to exhaust valve on cylinder 4, I started winding bolt down to compress spring and I heard valve pop off seat and it started to pass a bit more air, I got collets off and when I put new spring on and started to compress it to get the collets on, the valve was going down as well and it would come up again when I unwound tension off the spring, I tried a couple of times then took spring off. Anyway I touched the top of the valve stem with my finger and it decided it would glide off down into the cylinder. Now I have a problem, I cant see it thru exhaust port. My engine builder said I should have had each cylinder at tdc when doing each cylinder. Was prepared to pull off head and change head bolts to arp bolts, new head gasket, but I'm gonna try turn crank slowly so piston comes up and try retrieve valve with magnet and try poke it back up valve stem first. No one told me to have each cylinder at tdc so if a valve drops it cant go far. Also if the piston is down the cylinder is a big area to fill with air and it's harder for the air to hold valve up, makes sense!! All was going so well too, damn it.

Today I installed atomic oil pump with my mechanic and he showed me how to change valve springs and I'm doing them today and tomorrow, the collets are fiddly little sods but a bit of grease is the trick to stick them to screwdriver when installing the collets. Iv changed 8 springs so far working from front to back and really not looking forward to doing back springs, I'm using atomic tool.

Ok thanks camo. So why is it not necessary to go to colder plugs with these motors when usually turbo motors need to?

So the YE07's are 1 colder than stock? You say you've used lots of them, how long do they last aaronm?

I have stock standard plugs in it at moment, iv just been stock piling parts and I'm about to start the big monster garage project soon, Ford over here said they cant get 1 heat range colder, repco said $56 per plug for 1 heat range colder iridium, but that sounds way too much $. No one in nz seems very helpful so far.