{"id":2735,"date":"2014-10-28T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2014-10-28T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T03:29:14","slug":"sand-rail-turned-to-the-darkside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Sand Rail Turned to the Darkside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago we tuned Paul&#8217;s VG30DE powered sand rail. Just recently he was back with a VG30DETT running a pair of Mitsu TD04 turbochargers. After some tweaks we were able to make some great power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2736\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine1.jpg\" alt=\"engine1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine1-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine1-240x180.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turbos came off courtesy of a couple of Subarus. SZ replica inconel exhaust manifolds. Externally wastegates, a Greddy boost controller, and stock recirc valves are used for boost control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2737\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine2.jpg\" alt=\"engine2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine2-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine2-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/engine2-240x180.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Intercooler and radiator mounted right above the engine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/TTcomparison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2738\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/TTcomparison.jpg\" alt=\"TTcomparison\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/TTcomparison.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/TTcomparison-800x470.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/TTcomparison-120x70.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I think Paul will notice a &#8220;dramatic&#8221; difference between the naturally aspirated engine and its TT&#8217;ed brother. 160 torque gained and 140 whp.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oLjppYsmAX4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago we tuned Paul&#8217;s VG30DE powered sand rail. Just recently he was back with a VG30DETT running a pair of Mitsu TD04 turbochargers. After some tweaks we were able to make some great power. Turbos came off courtesy of a couple of Subarus. SZ replica inconel exhaust manifolds. Externally wastegates, a Greddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}