Turbo Virgin Needs Upgrade Advice?

[callan]

PLEASE HELP!!

Hi Everyone

I have recently purchased a 2002 XR6 Turbo Auto WITH 125 000km on the clock and in fantastic condition.

It is stock except for a sports exhaust and K & N filter.

Before owning this car I had a variety of 351 v8's, so I really have no idea about the turbo cars or the best way to go about upgrades.

I live in the Sydney CBD and in the next few months I want to do the following things and have it achieve about 300kw at the wheels... but most of all I want it to be reliable as its a daily driver to get me to work

I want advice on the following stuff:

Extractors & twin exhaust ( not sure what size I need or what I should be willing to pay for a package?)

New intercooler ( want a quality product but not to expensive that could handle 300kw at the wheels)

Flash Turner and a great place in sydney to get it done?

I was hoping you experienced ford turbo guys could steer me in the right direction and the best brands / places to get this stuff?

[ravenhard]

Ill have a crack at answering this as I am basically doing the same and trying to achieve the same atm.

-Extractors, well turbo cars dont really have extractors in the NA sense. They have a manifold which the turbo bolts on to and this cant be upgraded but is not really done unless you are chasing >450rwkw. The standard exhaust or even your sports exhaust can easily handle 300kws. You may need a bigger high flow cat something 3.5inch or bigger

-New cooler, you could get moza/wog 1 from ebay but if you are getting a cooler soon, I would suggest getting 1 from rapid. I got 1 recently and installed it myself. Was pretty easy. $800 for a large very well made cooler with cold side piping or a bit more if you want hot side piping aswell. Check it out he has a special in the sponsor forums.

-Flashtune all the sydney forum sponsors have em, depends on your location. Call all of them up and have a chat.

To get 300rwkw you will also need to get bigger injectors, siemens 60lb seem popular atm. Need a bigger fuel pump something like walbro 340. Some people will say you need valve springs done, but I would wait and see how its tuned and if it needs it as springs installed in Sydney cost ~$900. Then after getting all your aprts assembled you will need a custom tune....

Depending on whether yours is a monday car or a friday car you may get to 300rwkw gl I fell short by a bit :(

[ravenhard]

oh and forgot to mention, if you are planning on running 300rwkw daily you might want to get a tranny cooler and start saving up for a tranny rebuild

[mercuryturbo]

If your cars an 02 model then definatly budget for valve springs.

[our06t]

ravenhard's pretty well on it

exhaust ,just do the cat

bigger injecters

I'm using process west stg1 cooler set up

think about fuel system

my valve springs are holding up just ,they really do need doing though

and yes the biggest trans cooler you can get