My top quality 1.5L Lanos - progress photos 16-DEC-06

proudy · Post by **proudy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:04 am

I love your car man. I just would like to know where you got your front grill from, it is so cool.

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:16 am

proudy wrote:I love your car man. I just would like to know where you got your front grill from, it is so cool.

It was really difficult and took so much time to do.... well..... maybe not

http://www.daewootech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2677

I just ordered a Sport badge from the Lanos Sport (duh!) and stuck it in the middle of the grille.
Changes the whole look of the car for sure...

--Tim

proudy · Post by **proudy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:08 pm

thats cool

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:51 am

So I finally made it to the engine builders today. They are progressing well with the rebuild.
The engine is out and split apart.

Pistons will be shipped off next week to the USA so Ross Pistons can custom make some 20 thou oversized forged pistons for me

Compression ratio is still under consideration...

Apparently the engine came apart amazingly well. He said it was in awesome condition still for a turbo'd engine (especially a home designed untuned one).
Bearings only had very light scoring...

Engine failure was put down to... uneven wearing of the piston rings on that cylinder. It had some glazing on the cylinder wall and the piston ended up with a fair bit of slap (so that was the noise i heard...

) When it was on boost it just wore unevenly... You can see it on the rings...

So anyway its well progressed. Once its tuned and all back together it should be great! Horespower numbers wont be huge being a small SOHC but i should be making earth moving amounts of torque

--Tim

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:20 am

i cant wait till you get it running again

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:41 am

great... i hope you get her on the streets soon and by all means keep us posted.

MMamdouh

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:26 am

Thanks guys.

As a side note - the thread has hit over 3000 views now! Hooray for me

--Tim

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:18 pm

indeed... your woo is a celebrity here!

MMamdouh

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:35 am

Well happy days are here!

As some of you know I had a dodgy experience with the first engine builder (including losing a sizeable deposit and some parts).
I'm with a new shop now and after another 10 week wait - MY CUSTOM ROSS PISTONS ARE IN!!!!!

They are a very boost friendly 8.0:1 - i dont know how this is going to drive but we will see!

Box of goodness!

Oh the deep dish...

Underside, mmm Ross-ige

New piston, old piston and rod that has been stress relieved, crack tested and polished.

OEM-ness

It's all getting sent away now for blueprinting and balancing. I'm just glad something is FINALLY happening with it...

--Tim

nexia-gtx · Post by **nexia-gtx** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:58 pm

hellow

what are the plans with the engine?
just rebuild it or are you gonna speed it up?

keep up the good work

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:30 pm

nexia-gtx wrote:what are the plans with the engine?
just rebuild it or are you gonna speed it up?

It's getting a LOT of work done. I can tell you it'll be the most comprehensively worked A15SMS... Yes i know it would've been easier to drop in the 2L and tune that - but no one works on the 1.5L SOHC, i wanted to be different and see how far these engines can go!

The part that i am really looking forwards to is a new polished stainless turbo manifold being made and a new big Garrett turbo too...

--Tim

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:29 pm

seems like santa came 2 months early as far as you are concerned Tim

MMamdouh

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:32 pm

MMamdouh wrote:seems like santa came 2 months early as far as you are concerned Tim

MMamdouh

Something like that - i hope to be back on the road before then!

--Tim

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:25 am

DBA Cross drilled and slotted rotors...

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:35 am

So with the rebuild and everything getting redesigned, we looked into rebuilding and high flowing the TD04 I had.
It is a little small for what we wanted to achieve, so a new Garrett turbo was on the cards.

After much research and discussion, I decided on the Disco Potato!

GT2860RS with the smaller 0.64 turbine housing for quicker spool.
Dual ball bearing, high flow and... massive cold side

Yes... it's big...

She's finally coming together...

I'm interested to see how this reacts on the little 1.5L SOHC - based on compressor maps it should be VERY strong middle and upper...

I have to REALLY plug http://www.horsepowerinabox.com for the turbo. Morrie was VERY helpful, quick delivery and gave an unbeatable price!

--Tim