‘06 DD shooting for 450whp

n00b here.
Definitely making progress with knowing & applying all of the gathered knowledge I’ve collected.
I used to look at car parts & installs & builds & just dream of the day I’d get a chance to dump some money, time, blood, elbow grease, etc.
into my 6

Buttholes over at firestone broke my tensioner pulley bolt clean off inside the block a little over a year ago, the poor thing sat at my in-law’s shop which I’m surprised it only took a year lol
I bought those little frog bits or whatever & got it out.

I bought a new red top battery & she started right up.

So far :

COBB shift weight & plate
Fuel pump internals
Intake / inlet pipe
GFB respons BOV (I’ve got a turbosmart dual port as well... which one is better ? Is it preference?)
Grimmspeed BCS
BC Coilovers
MOOG sway links

GlowShift boost gauge dash install
Made an AUX that clips right into the back of the stock radio
Accessport install & OTS map

Intake was salvaged I’ll get a new filter I’m impatient lol
She needs a lot of TLC


Uhhhh yeah all in this last week lol been going nonstop

Kept a fire going & when I got hungry just popped a squat. Open fire is still my favorite method of cooking. Cast iron all day.

Also picked some of my Carolina reapers

Much more to come !

 

your not going to make 450whp on a stock turbo and that small intake. next concern would be the health of the block. my goal was around 350whp.. now i want to make more. i'm limited by fuel currently. my car is a daily though

 

Doing fuel internals today


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Fuel pump is fun..

Sway links are rusted together
Used heat gun, liquid wrench, EVERYTHING

So I just cut the sumbitch off with my DREMEL
Ran through my last wheel cutting a silly nail of all things & had glasses on, but no gloves

Very careless of me.
Always ALWAYS use safety precautions.
Lesson learned.

It needs stitches, but I’m gonna liquid stitch it tomorrow [emoji2373]


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Front BC coilovers installed finally
Had to cut off the old sway links
New seats & carpet

Feels like a brand new car
She deserves it

I’ve dreamed of this day for nearly 6 years lol
Just got the rear to go

Much easier to take the fork off the strut & swap the struts out & call it a day lol
Perfect clearance so far, but hopefully have a road test before the end of day tomorrow

 

Don’t worry about the plate it’s from 2015 lol gotta be sneaky sometimes

Decided to rain as soon as I got started, but I’ll be damned if that’s stopping me today [emoji1377]

Posting some content later tonight when I sit down to edit

 

Long night
Finally calling it
Started a how to for rear suspension, couldn’t even budge the subframe bolts lol

They’re soaking
The car had to be resting in water idk how the hell everything is so rusted down there

Managed to get the springs out, but eventually you’re just tired & hungry even if it was smooth as butter I was over it lol

The exhaust is fully welded together to the downpipe unless it’ll come off at the cat & I don’t know it yet lol no bolts [emoji2373]
Stuck at getting the o2 sensor out of the downpipe on the bottom
Believe it’s 7/8?
Don’t have any wrenches that big

Saved all the change in the parts car for these little hardware store trips [emoji41]

To be continued ...

 

Did you grow those peppers? I grew some hydroponically outdoors and had great results. One plant was 7 feet wide by 9 feet tall in a 5 gallon bucket lol. I had 4 cinder blocks with rope to keep it secured. Had an amazing harvest from it too but when a hurricane came through a branch fell off my tree and cut it like a guillotine.

The peppers I grew were scorpions and they looked similar to yours. Had insane heat. Most people wouldnt even eat them.

 

That is NUTS. That’s a big fkn pepper plant lol
Yeah I grew them at my parents house I try to plant a garden every year

Hand mixed soil inoculated with mycorrhiza
Water & Einstein oil to help with pests

Just kinda let it do it’s thing
Lemme see if I can find some pics

The peppers I grew this year were ari charapita(apparently chefs in Peru pay 25k a kilo for these little bitty tropical V HOT pepper)



Carolina Reapers



Trinidad Scorpions (very late this year only had a couple I’m letting them stay on the plant til they turn )




Jalapeños & cayennes
Pretty sure that’s all I had room for on the peppers

I’ve got these black Hungarian pepper seeds ?
My Instagram buddy in Michigan sent me a ton of seeds & hot sauce made with those peppers & MAN. The flavor was just incredible
I haven’t had anything like it

You doing DWC for the hydro set up?

 

Klip Dagga
Ancients used to smoke it before cannabis apparently.
Brother cousins.

Little orange flowers pop out of the spikes apparently I feel like Mr. Wilson waiting for the bloom lol
You dry the flowers & smoke them
Also called “lion’s ear” which pairs well with mullein (lamb’s ear) which was smoked as an expectorant to help combat that raw tobacco lol


Fairytale Eggplant


Grey striped Mammoth


Lemon Cucumber (these are awesome)


Shinobu Eggplant


I’ve got like 6 kinds of melons idk which is which anymore until I cut them open lol



Atomic Grape Tomato
These are super wicked




Pretty decent haul this year !
I worked with a company called “Food Roof”
We would lay PVC sheeting down & heat gun then all together to make a seamless seal y’know then build a rooftop garden & I gotta say, some of the coolest shit I’ve ever done
Even had a chicken coop on the roof of a uhaul building.
I helped install & maintain 4 of them I bet they got a few more

Hope I’m not overloading on pics try to upload small lol
I got some pics of the food roofs somewhere
I wanna do a restaurant like that [emoji28]

 

DWC? I use the Lucas method for hydro. Super simple, only 2 chemicals. FloraBloom and FloraMicro. Basically I do a 80/20 split of the micro and bloom for vegetative growth then taper it the opposite way for flowering.

I use Rockwell cubes. My friend had started the pepper plant in a soup can under fluorescent light then we transferred it outdoors and added a air stone and air pump to the bucket for oxygenation.

I learned how to grow because my buddy was growing pot that way for a long time and then we had a few successful grows together. Over time the risk was too much so we stopped and the peppers were the first legal plant we grew lol.

 

lol i started growing plants the same way
Got caught in high school with 2 plants under the stairs
We had this cut out in the wall that would let you back there & one damn cord gave it away lol
I was using a 60w light bulb [emoji1787]

Your method sounds a lot like deep water culture
Roots hang down into the aerated water reservoir & the pump keeps it flowing back to the top down the roots ?

 

Yup that's exactly right. We tried ebb and flow systems before but began to get mold on the cubes.

 

Mannnnn just the 3 bolts on each rear strut left
Can’t get the subframe bolts to even budge
Gonna take the blowtorch to it in the morning & call it

I swear this kid lived in bikini bottom lol the rust in unreal
Already started eating through the trunk

Should finally be able to start a part out/ for sale thread tomorrow

Hopefully enough sun to get some decent pics & signage

So close I can almost taste it

 

Another score
Auto tech fuel pump internals





Cleaned it up real good
Another success

 

Installed Bosch 3 map sensor





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BC coilovers BR type
Very close fit

No that is not a chrome lip
That is a curb rash lip lol

I might have to go quick release bumper
Been peeping those hard

Both cars coming home tomorrow [emoji1374]
Finally going to be out of the cold rain

 

Welp
I’m tryna “grow up” & I’m putting my car back to stock lol

Maybe just keep her as a keepsake
Who knows
She might turn into a race car after all

I’ve got the room to stretch out now, though & HEAT
Power tools !!
Air compressor !
Whew

Big things coming this week!!


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I caved.
I like this much better.

 

Check her out !!

Every single thing works as it should.
Damn that feels good

Now to get her road legal!