Fg Xr6T Ute - No Boost Lots Of White Smoke!

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Dalton were great to deal with, pretty straight forward and practical. They said I may need a bigger fuel pump (which I already knew). My ute was pulling 330rwkw and leaning off a little so, the bigger pump went in.

I have ended up with 327rwkw @ 12 PSI and I am very happy, noticeably more power than my 290rwkw prior, also seems to have better throttle response.

My 2009 xr6turbo ute (manual( has had the following modifications

4inch dump pipe and high flow cat

Herrod intake

Process West Stage 1 stepped intercooler and piping

SCT flash tuner

Gapped spark plugs

650cc Bosch injectors

Walbro In tank Fuel pump

Earls inline oil filter

Interesting, Chris Dalton said the intercooler was very impressive and helped me to pull this kind of safe power out of these mods. Also no heat soak on the dyno and so far it has been noticeably better to drive also!

This weekend :change diff oil and off I go!

Thanks for all the help. Will post pictures if I ever work out how to do it!

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Yeah burned a fair few hours. I am lucky I have a spare car. Probably saved a few $k and learned a lot. Spent about $400 on random tools I needed.

All up including new parts, liquids, tune etc prob owes me $4500. Not cheap but when I compare it to my mates Porsche...... its nothing!

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Was also hard working on the ground, I only have an open air garage that gets dust and heavy rain floods it. I call working on the car like that 'man yoga'. Good strengthening.... haha

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Here is what stuffed my turbo, I blocked off both ends and couldn't blow through it. Some oil must have still gone through as the ute smoked a lot!!!

I burred off one of the nuts on the bottom side of the turbo (they are tapered) so ended up having to take the manifold out. Real bastard of a job as all the bolts pulled out their fair share of alloy, took huge amounts of force and I thought I was going to break them. When I reinstalled I cleaned the threads and used loctite blue. Went in OK.

The aftermarket 4 inch dump pipe has no room for a ring spanner or a conventional open spanner, real bastard as well and awkward to reach

Another one that I don't have a photo of was the turbo to sump feed. I was stupid and didn't bolt up the turbo side before I put it back in. Absolute nightmare to bolt up when turbo installed.

Here is the old intercooler versus the new intercooler. Biiiiiiig difference. The new Process West Stage 1 was a tight fit, it also removes any rubber mounts. Bloody works though!

Final Result!!!!