Spotted: 1UZ oldskool Cressida with GT47R turbo :D

[Ribfeast]

I went to Autosalon Newcastle yesterday, and Nova have knocked together a cressida in 3 days lol

This thing has a bog stock 1UZ V8, Garrett GT47R turbo with I think an internal 60mm gate. The smoke you can see on the dyno is the fresh heat wrap cooking from the heat.
The thing had never hit the dyno before this, and it still knocked out around 300rwkw running just off wastegate spring

http://homepage.mac.com/rib_feast/v8_gt47r_cressida.wmv

Just a few quick pics I took at the day for any interested:











Sounded dick-hard on the dyno! As much as I hate these guys for the dodgy stuff they did on my car, it's still good to see them do something very different with a Cressida. And especially building the whole thing in only 3 days.

[gianttomato]

Be interested to know if the steering box was retained, just for future reference. 30 series have a metric truckload of engine bay real estate.

[MWP]

Must do... that engine is sitting waaaay forward.

[EldarO]

interesting to see how they routed the exhaust, noice noice.

Elmo.

[The Real Roadrunner]

nasty welds but for a 3day job that things tough as

cheers
linden

[yotamotion]

Holy shit that thing is horn!!! How do I get in contact with these guys I've been wondering about what needs to be done to put a 1uz in my cressida MX36 wagon

[Ribfeast]

Just look up nova auto innovations on the net, they probably have a site. Put anything useful that you find out onto here, I'm sure a few people are interested

[chris davey]

That is very cool. Don't know why all the 1uz soarer go's complain about a turbo upgrade being hard to setup

Personally, would have went with a 42 for a 4L but yeah 47 should do alright

[Jackel]

dam hope no birds fly into that :\

[RObErT_RaTh]

That is pretty darn awesome, and knocked together that quick for a nice unreliable 300rwkw is a good effort

[emp?]

i think its a getto POS but thats me haha

[oldcorollas]

it takes a turbo that big to add an extra 100kw to a 1UZ?

i hope the work they do on customer cars is better

but.. got ppl talking didn't it

[old_school_jap1]

lmfao!!! where's the defect squad when u need them??? like to see how much the cops could ping that thing for.
could be a great thing if done properly

[30psi 4agte]

nasty welds but for a 3day job that things tough as

cheers
linden

Thing is though......... It doesnt exactly take any longer to weld better than that..

But hey some people like the bird poo weld style
3 days .....is 3 days though.

[Ribfeast]

The scary thing is the work they do on customer cars is no better
Check out the timing belt and water pump debacle in my members ride thread or PM me for more details.

Maybe if they decompress the motor and run more than 10psi (or whatever wastegate spring is on that turbo), it'll put out some decent numbers. Or make a nice bang