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Here's the new winter project:
2002 G20 Automatic - 135k miles - 1 Owner car - Bought for $450 cash
Story on the car:
Old lady bought this off the lot brand new.... Drove it for 100k plus miles... Her son get's old enough to drive...
Party's in it, trashes the interior and runs it into a pole...
Then sits in the garage for two years with the windows down and getting door dinged to death...
I was just going to part it and use a bunch of parts for my EV0 car but....
I would like to put the myth of auto transmissions on boost being junk to rest. From every automatic transmission failure I have read about
on SR20's sounds like the torque converter or the clutches fail. I have also heard a few people run quite awhile on boosted autos.. I have three good shape auto's and everything to start this experiment.
Should be a really quick setup with the light roller rocker setup @ 9psi T25 ball bearing (should be around 200-220 whp)
The plan:
Body:
Fixing the core support / body damage with donor car parts as cheaply as possible. - Cutting out on thanksgiving vacation time...
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Management:
Wire in AEM management - Done and installed
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Transmission:
Pull valve body - Done
Install shift kit - Done
Order Level 10 torque converter - Skipped
Install big tranny cooler - maybe a tranny temp gauge - Still need to hit pick-n-pull
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Engine:
Bone stock 135k roller rocker - Keeping all emissions, egr in tact but deleting the manifold/cat converter. Done
Going with a 99' cat or welding a bung behind the second cat.
Tap engine block for oil drain - Done
Install Avenir W11 BB T25 setup (9psi) - Sitting in garage 40k mile JDM pull from my brothers setup - Done
Install our avenir to stock exhaust system downpipe - Done
Install FPR and set to 4bar fuel pressure - Going to wait and see if 3 bar maxes out
I can't say that I have ever seen anyone put in a built torque converter and shift kit in a G20 yet. And to be honest I would like to have a car my girl will drive.
I want to hear your opinions good or bad
2002 G20 Automatic - 135k miles - 1 Owner car - Bought for $450 cash
Story on the car:
Old lady bought this off the lot brand new.... Drove it for 100k plus miles... Her son get's old enough to drive...
Party's in it, trashes the interior and runs it into a pole...
Then sits in the garage for two years with the windows down and getting door dinged to death...
I was just going to part it and use a bunch of parts for my EV0 car but....
I would like to put the myth of auto transmissions on boost being junk to rest. From every automatic transmission failure I have read about
on SR20's sounds like the torque converter or the clutches fail. I have also heard a few people run quite awhile on boosted autos.. I have three good shape auto's and everything to start this experiment.
Should be a really quick setup with the light roller rocker setup @ 9psi T25 ball bearing (should be around 200-220 whp)
The plan:
Body:
Fixing the core support / body damage with donor car parts as cheaply as possible. - Cutting out on thanksgiving vacation time...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Management:
Wire in AEM management - Done and installed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Transmission:
Pull valve body - Done
Install shift kit - Done
Order Level 10 torque converter - Skipped
Install big tranny cooler - maybe a tranny temp gauge - Still need to hit pick-n-pull
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Engine:
Bone stock 135k roller rocker - Keeping all emissions, egr in tact but deleting the manifold/cat converter. Done
Going with a 99' cat or welding a bung behind the second cat.
Tap engine block for oil drain - Done
Install Avenir W11 BB T25 setup (9psi) - Sitting in garage 40k mile JDM pull from my brothers setup - Done
Install our avenir to stock exhaust system downpipe - Done
Install FPR and set to 4bar fuel pressure - Going to wait and see if 3 bar maxes out
I can't say that I have ever seen anyone put in a built torque converter and shift kit in a G20 yet. And to be honest I would like to have a car my girl will drive.
I want to hear your opinions good or bad