Bit the bullet bbr turbo fitted

[NitrousRuss]

Hi
After blowing the bottom end of my mk3 2.0l the question was what to do, fit new standard engine,sell the whole car, but after year's of having it and upgrading suspension, wheels,brakes, antiroll bars, and lots more, and the main thing was, I just love the car. So i contacted bbr and he just happened to have a very low mileage 3.5 engine sitting there. So what the hell stage 2 turbo conversion. Picked it up weekend just gone, with well over 300hp, it is fun, I used to run a tvr chimera with nitrous and on a drag strip that used to embarrass a few cars including a couple of ferrari's and this feels alot faster
It would be great to make contact with other mk3s with a bbr or other turbo conversion
Russell

Edited by NitrousRuss on Tuesday 15th March 15:39

[Smollet]

I think fun is a bit of an understatement. I've got the BBR200 kit on my NC and that's fun so another 100 horses is well lots of fun

[scz4]

Awesome! What suspension have you gone for?

Struggling to think of a replacement for my Z4M under £20k and this is very appealing with a MK3.5 donor car. Only potential disappointment after the beemer would be the engine\exhaust noise, but everything else fits the bill perfectly.

[NitrousRuss]

scz4 said:

Awesome! What suspension have you gone for?

Struggling to think of a replacement for my Z4M under £20k and this is very appealing with a MK3.5 donor car. Only potential disappointment after the beemer would be the engine\exhaust noise, but everything else fits the bill perfectly.

I've got gaz coilovers all round all fully adjustable height and stiffness, the exhaust note is good, and it pops and bangs so that does make up for it, bbr has also fitted launch control, blips the throttle when you change down also full throttle gear change, so you don't have to take your foot off the throttle
Russell

[scz4]

Sounds like fun!

Did you go for the optional exhaust setup?

[NitrousRuss]

scz4 said:

Sounds like fun!

Did you go for the optional exhaust setup?

The whole lot, the more I drive it the more fun it is

[R8FUN]

Sounds like a beast, I went the Supercharged route.
How did you manage to blow the original engine? or is the clue in your name?

[Mannginger]

I picked my car up the same weekend as yours. I have to admit I had a nosy at your graph as it was sitting on the coffee table in reception, I was very jealous of the figures!

Have fun chap

[NitrousRuss]

R8FUN said:

Sounds like a beast, I went the Supercharged route.
How did you manage to blow the original engine? or is the clue in your name?

No I wasn't running nitrous on this car, the name came years ago when I think I was one of the first to run nitrous in a road going Tvr, and the name just stuck but I do have a Hayabusa running it sometimes lol 😁

[NitrousRuss]

Mannginger said:

I picked my car up the same weekend as yours. I have to admit I had a nosy at your graph as it was sitting on the coffee table in reception, I was very jealous of the figures!

Have fun chap

Thanks for that
I really think everyone who has the mk3 or newer should save the money, and do a stage 2 conversation, it is such good fun and so enjoyable, the grin factor, with the pops and bangs from the exhaust, is worth it alone. If bbr do the same for the mk4, it would be like having a mini supercar at the fraction of the price
It has to be done... Lol 😁

[Gandahar]

I've got a stage 0.8 on mine ( not a mistprint) and it's a very linear power curve so suits the car well even on stock suspension and tyres. For a mk3 owner I'd recommend it.

The exhaust is pretty good also, the sport version, not too loud and ok for timbres. The pops and bangs that they dialled in are fun for us guys getting a few grey hairs now. Having said that i did have one issue with the exhaust, made the rear parcel shelf rattle at 3500rpm. So I bought two bags of Sainsbury's basic white rice and duct taped them to it. Sorted.

I now have a ricer as they say in the USA

Edited by Gandahar on Thursday 24th March 10:09

[Gandahar]

As the turbo obviously gets warm I thought it would be prudent to remove the sound deadening material from under the bonnet. This would be a cheap mod and would have the benefits of

a) Letting me hear more sucking blowing sounds from the turbo
b) reduce the temp as acting as a heat sink
c) reduce weight by 1kg or so.

Strangely the turbo has got no louder, perhaps removing it's warm coat has offended it. However it is getting rid of the heat, after a good run I put my hand on the bonnet and the turbo area is really warm so it's more efficient at removing the heat. I highly recommend it. All heat removal is a good thing of course.

Some pictures including my workshop spare parts bin



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[SmilerFTM]

Gandahar said:

I've got a stage 0.8 on mine ( not a mistprint) and it's a very linear power curve so suits the car well even on stock suspension and tyres. For a mk3 owner I'd recommend it.

The exhaust is pretty good also, the sport version, not too loud and ok for timbres. The pops and bangs that they dialled in are fun for us guys getting a few grey hairs now. Having said that i did have one issue with the exhaust, made the rear parcel shelf rattle at 3500rpm. So I bought two bags of Sainsbury's basic white rice and duct taped them to it. Sorted.

I now have a ricer as they say in the USA

Edited by Gandahar on Thursday 24th March 10:09

Insulation tube on the shelf works to stop the rattle and costs pennies

[NitrousRuss]

Great tip with the insolation tube 😀


Russell

[Gandahar]

Yes top work.

[Gandahar]

I'm getting one of these fitted at the moment

https://shop.quaife.co.uk/mazda-mx-5-nc-100d-quaif...

being the automatic mine doesn't even have the standard Mazda open differential fitted.....

[sbird]

Gandahar said:

I'm getting one of these fitted at the moment

https://shop.quaife.co.uk/mazda-mx-5-nc-100d-quaif...

being the automatic mine doesn't even have the standard Mazda open differential fitted.....

I'm interested to see how you get on. I've not come across anyone with an auto MX-5 retro-fitted with an LSD before.

[Gandahar]

sbird said:

Gandahar said:

I'm getting one of these fitted at the moment

https://shop.quaife.co.uk/mazda-mx-5-nc-100d-quaif...

being the automatic mine doesn't even have the standard Mazda open differential fitted.....

I'm interested to see how you get on. I've not come across anyone with an auto MX-5 retro-fitted with an LSD before.

I'll let everyone know. Not many automatic MX5 NC's about having changes being made such as turbo's etc. Problem is I keep adding weight, first the turbo now the Quaife. The auto gearbox is heavy too I guess. My car has eaten all the pies.

I was sat pulling out of a junction the other day at 6500rpm in 1st with just the inside rear wheel spinning......

My auto doesn't even have the standard Bilsteins. Grrr.

[Gandahar]

Well the Quaife is now fitted and not had enough time to see how it works so will report back later

However as I keep adding weight to my already lardy automatic MX5 what with Turbo and gubbins and also now a proper LSD rather than than the Mazda open one, I thought it best to take some weight off. Abbey motorsport, who fitted the LSD, also popped on this which is 8 kg lighter than the stock back box



Now isn't that a lot better than the heavy twin exhaust monstrosity NC's have as standard?

[Gandahar]

Not even that noisy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP1e-Fb9d2M