Turbo_Joe Rebuild Thread

[turbo_joe]

Sold my stoptech trophy kit and upgrading to the Bimmerworld nickel plated Alcon kit

[tsk94]

You'll be happy with those. I have that kit on my M4 and it's awesome.
Not nickel plated though Mine was an early kit before they offered it.

[okusa]

Aside from the wide body kit itself and 18x11 wheels, what else is needed to go wide body?

[turbo_joe]

Originally Posted by okusa

Aside from the wide body kit itself and 18x11 wheels, what else is needed to go wide body?

Just a willingness to hack up the car haha. Nothing special besides making the kit fit and cutting up the car. I am full SPL arms but its all stock width components.

My goal was to fit 315s without any tire poking out of the body work. One day I will go the custom wheel route to run 18x12s with 315s

[turbo_joe]

Originally Posted by tsk94

You'll be happy with those. I have that kit on my M4 and it's awesome.
Not nickel plated though Mine was an early kit before they offered it.

BW is sold out of the normal kit right now with a 1-2 month lead time so I bit the bullet on upgrading to the nickel plated kit.

The finish looks amazing but its not as shiny as the AP plated kit haha

[Dean__Sanchez]

What alignment settings do you run?

[turbo_joe]

Originally Posted by Dean__Sanchez

What alignment settings do you run?

Just changed the entire alignment setup running over -4 camber up front and about -2.6 rear

[Dean__Sanchez]

For the front toe, are you running any toe out? Or just zero? Thinking of running a little toe out. (I only run time attack at a local grass roots track, 1 warm up lap, 2 hot laps, 1 cool down lap for the time attack portion). Figured slight toe out would help heat front tires up (toyo RR) and help with turning since the track is fairly short with good amount of turns. (Avg lap time is only 1:18)

[turbo_joe]

Originally Posted by Dean__Sanchez

For the front toe, are you running any toe out? Or just zero? Thinking of running a little toe out. (I only run time attack at a local grass roots track, 1 warm up lap, 2 hot laps, 1 cool down lap for the time attack portion). Figured slight toe out would help heat front tires up (toyo RR) and help with turning since the track is fairly short with good amount of turns. (Avg lap time is only 1:18)

I run a bit of toe out up front and a bit in for the rear.

[DrFerry]

Sub'd and to your YouTube channel. The VIR laps in the video of your first post are 'flyers'. The digital speedo showed 149mph on the back straight after Oak Tree. What final drive differential ratio are you running? The car looks really nicely buttoned down with slow hands at the wheel and early power on well before apex in many corners. Awesome. Well done. I'm sure the car is even better now with the custom H-Depot front splitter aero balancing the rear wing aero loads. Oh what fun it looks like your having.

[turbo_joe]

Originally Posted by DrFerry

Sub'd and to your YouTube channel. The VIR laps in the video of your first post are 'flyers'. The digital speedo showed 149mph on the back straight after Oak Tree. What final drive differential ratio are you running? The car looks really nicely buttoned down with slow hands at the wheel and early power on well before apex in many corners. Awesome. Well done. I'm sure the car is even better now with the custom H-Depot front splitter aero balancing the rear wing aero loads. Oh what fun it looks like your having.

unfortunately I am still on an oem rear diff right now with stock gearing. Slowly making more changes to get the car sorted out. Next big ticket items the car needs is better suspension and a rear diff. I think they will make a huge difference and make the car easier to drive.

[turbo_joe]

Some shots from Pitt Race/Nasa Champs

[turbo_joe]

Working on the new suspension setup. Went with MCS 2-way remote true coilovers. Almost done, need to corner balance the car and take care of the alignment.

Got the canisters mounted yesterday.

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr


Dropped the subframe to install a new sway bar

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr


Changed up the rear diffuser. I lowered it a couple inches and now the exhaust comes out above it instead of through it. Also changed my setup for mounting the back of it.

Ignore the damaged rear bumper and terrible wrap. I have a spare but dont have the time to swap it and rewrap it right now

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

[wahwill]

Love the the front splitter you made. Did you notice a difference after installing the splitter diffusers?

Also, does removing the oil cooler hole at the bottom cause any issues?

[turbo_joe]

Originally Posted by wahwill

Love the the front splitter you made. Did you notice a difference after installing the splitter diffusers?

Also, does removing the oil cooler hole at the bottom cause any issues?

Its hard to say as I changed some other things when I built that version of the splitter. Overall it has worked great but I am about to swap to a zebulon front splitter.

I've run my car for the last 3-4 years with no hole for the oil cooler and never had an issue. Ideally you dont want to be dumping air under the car if you can prevent it.

[turbo_joe]

Ready for race weekend at Summit Point

Gonna be more of a shakedown weekend working on tuning the new suspension.

[IMG]Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr[/IMG]

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

Also finally got around to modding the driver door to be able to remove it to load it in the trailer.

Untitled by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

Made an easy mount on the wall with some e-track and J hooks to hold the door during transport

by Joey Hutchinson, on Flickr

[jmeenach]

I bet the door mod makes it a lot easier to get out of the car once in the trailer!!

[StripclubDJ]

Cars new hips makes that wing look tiny now lol

[turbo_joe]

Originally Posted by StripclubDJ

Cars new hips makes that wing look tiny now lol

Hopefully that changes this year. Looking at switching to a 74" carbon wing with a larger chord