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Author: | ndiggles [ Thu Dec 05, 2013 12:03 pm ] | ||||
Post subject: | Re: L20b turbo Stanza - 13 years of street/strip evolution | ||||
More pics
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Author: | unfamilia [ Thu Dec 05, 2013 12:38 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: L20b turbo Stanza - 13 years of street/strip evolution |
Nice write up and evolution of the car. Persistance pays off |
Author: | k-man 79 wagon [ Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:18 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: L20b turbo Stanza - 13 years of street/strip evolution |
i like i like |
Author: | trb012 [ Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:19 pm ] |
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Very nice is your brother Ben who used to have the fj20 gazelle and now a rail? |
Author: | unfamilia [ Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: L20b turbo Stanza - 13 years of street/strip evolution |
Ditch the square lights and get a round light front end to be stanza cool |
Author: | Shifty [ Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:17 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: L20b turbo Stanza - 13 years of street/strip evolution |
Great results from a fairly budget setup! Any thoughts on the weight of the car? Also, and more pics of the inlet manifold (is it based on the l18e runners still?) And the intercooler setup? Hard to make out what youve done cooler wise. |
Author: | ndiggles [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:37 am ] | ||||||
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Thankyou all for the kind words Yes I am Ben's 'little' brother, and have been lucky enough to make use of various FJ20 parts of his over the years (injectors, distributor etc). I got to make some bits for the Gazelle and even drove it at its first meeting in NZ He always recommended I go FJ in the Stanza but I wanted to see what I could do with the old L instead. The rail is certainly an interesting beast and there have been some hard lessons learnt in the transition from the Gazelle, that's for sure. unfamilia - yeah, I know what you mean about the headlights - the round ones just capture some of that residual 70's nostalgia - but the squares get to revel in a Delorean-type aura of their own Shifty - the car would weigh 2390lbs with driver at the track (which is less spare tyre and other crap like tools I carry around on the street). I don't have many decent pics of the cooler but I'll put up what I can. There is a small water reservoir in the boot with a pump, and I bastardised a commodore air conditioner condenser to act as the water 'aftercooler' which sits in front of the radiator. The inlet is built from scratch with 38mm ID alloy tube runners (the L18 manifold runners are a bit smaller) and I tried to get the plenum up and away from the block to make room for the turbo underneath. It was basically all done with hand tools too, except a drill press and a tiny lathe to make the injector bosses - hacksaws and files are the joys of having no money! Of course I had to pay someone to weld it up.
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Author: | ndiggles [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:41 am ] |
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oh and the fuel regulator/return setup you see there (which was the neatest way to use the stock L18 regulator) has been replaced by a Sard on the firewall |
Author: | Imago [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 9:47 am ] |
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That's cool! |
Author: | d [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:07 pm ] |
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faster than 90% of CAs and SRs out there simply and concisely well done! Love the square lights and wattas just all fits in an incredible daily package. The L series even with an 8v head is such an overlooked engine for boost full marks and well done! |
Author: | green200b [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:29 pm ] |
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Good work on keeping it as a daily whilst you were doing all of this! That can't have been easy. A very cool car. I saved this picture ages ago which turns out to be your car: By the way, what an excellent colour |
Author: | old-tin [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:23 am ] |
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Sweet! Love turbo l's |
Author: | unfamilia [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 1:07 pm ] |
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Group hug. Im feeling the love.... opps too excited give me a minute |
Author: | 2ndTimeStanza [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 2:40 pm ] |
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mmm stanza. thanks for the write up. |
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