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Old May 10, 2022 | 06:52 AM
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I have to ask, what model MOMO wheel is that? It looks sweet!

Awesome to hear about the swap, I am looking forward to pics.
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Old May 10, 2022 | 07:06 AM
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I have to ask, what model MOMO wheel is that? It looks sweet!

Awesome to hear about the swap, I am looking forward to pics.
https://momo.com/en-us/momo-street-s...omo-retro.html
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Old May 10, 2022 | 07:40 AM
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Old Aug 28, 2022 | 12:23 AM
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Old Jul 23, 2025 | 01:49 PM
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Blew the engine up at Dominion raceway. Fuel starve on a long left with not enough in the tank leads to a bad time. Pro tip keep no less than a third in the tank at track days.
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Old Jul 23, 2025 | 01:57 PM
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Rebuilt the engine and decided to do some upgrades as well. Super seals, bnr turbo, ffe fuel kit with 1050 injectors, t2 housings, t2 rotors, new clutch too. Also decided to make my own 3" exhaust with a vibrant muffler and resonator.
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Old Jul 23, 2025 | 02:10 PM
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Also decided to finally ditch the micro squirt ecu and I upgraded to the haltech 1500, along with Smart coils,got it all wired up and it runs great. Also to the car to a pretty cool dude that pulled every dent, fixed every blemish and got the whole car painted.
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Old Jul 23, 2025 | 02:14 PM
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All the body work and painting for the SA
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Old Jul 30, 2025 | 06:22 AM
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Looks great! It must be a blast to drive!
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Old Aug 5, 2025 | 10:09 AM
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Yes it's awesome, well it was. Unfortunately this past weekend I decided to destroy my BNR turbo. Little oopsiepoopsie happened and I've destroyed the thrust bearing, significant axial play now. So that's being sent back to Bryan at BNR for a good rebuild. Excited to get that back and for now I've got a stock s4 unit in the car just so I can still drive it on the weekends. Before I dropped it into the car I decided to open up the tiny internal waste gate since I don't want any surprise boost creeps.

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Old Aug 29, 2025 | 06:55 AM
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BNR is back in and better than ever. New turbo blanket is pretty cool too.

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Old Sep 21, 2025 | 12:13 AM
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You've got to take some running videos for us!
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Old Jan 23, 2026 | 08:46 AM
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Another dead engine because of stupid mistakes

Soooooooo, new years day i destroyed my engine at a drift event. The set screw i used to keep the 5th and 6th port sleeves in place, one of them decided to shed its Loctite, back itself out and then had a little play date with an apex seal before being **** out the back end
---rotor and housing were trashed as expected.
With that being said I'm finally ditching the 6 port/T2 hybrid engine build. I've got all new T2 parts to completely rebuild the engine again. (i don't actually blame this on my engine being a 6 port turbo build, that part backing out and grenading **** is entirely my fault for not securing it better but also it was a completely unnecessary part that i did not need to include in my build, this is the perfect example of adding more **** that can fail and murphys law took the stage)
No more unnecessary parts or cutting corners now, i think I've finally learned my lesson and to just keep things as simple as possible and do what has been proven to work and work well.
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Old Jan 23, 2026 | 08:55 PM
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That sucks! At least you will make it better with the new rebuild.
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Old Feb 6, 2026 | 08:37 AM
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Old Feb 6, 2026 | 10:50 PM
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What did you do with the dual 36 carbs? Still got them?
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Old Feb 10, 2026 | 12:05 PM
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What did you do with the dual 36 carbs? Still got them?
I no longer have them sadly, sold them back in 23 to someone in California. Hindsight 20/20, i definitely should have kept them.
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Old Mar 30, 2026 | 08:23 AM
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