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How do you figure? I do all my own labour so it's parts and tuning. Seen plenty of cooler and piping kits for round 1500, plenum plus stock fuel setup 700ish, new pump 2-300 injectors 500, valve springs 300, tune 1000, fg tb adapter. What am I missing? Like I said it doesn't have to be and most likely wont be all brand new bling. Not to mention recouping a bit on the parts I take off and probably sell.

 

I understand zf probably won't be happy but I can worry about that if I want to keep the power down a bit to save it. Not sure what else would really be necessary.

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Exhaust, turbo mods.  500 for injectors will buy junk. Do you reckon you can change valve springs?  Intake.? Surge tank? And that's just the start. 

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Dump is the only part I'd care about buying lol, 3582 can't get near 400kw without flapper mod? Yes I can change valve springs, intake is obvious since I just removed the plenum, don't need a surge tank really, my tank is always full. I can do all the labour myself, could probably rebuild the motor if I had the space and the tools.

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Good to know a couple years holding off learning and seeing other cars and working for someone who's built monster barras has taught me nothing then mr negative. Cheers.

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All good mate, I know the attitude, kind of why I left the shop I was working at which has built and tuned many barras including some record breaking cars in their time. I've been sitting on my hands watching and waiting for when I felt I should start down the rabbit hole. Plenty of builds out there and plenty of parts I could buy but don't necessarily feel I need them ie: oil pump gears which I hear is a big thing for limit bashers which I avoid plus I have a zf.

 

Seen parts all over the place at all different prices, I'm not one to  always buy and get burned buying rock bottom cheap stuff so I try to know who I'm buying from when it's used stuff and pay a fair price but god knows there's plenty of good wrecks out there with nice parts just waiting to be bought haha.

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Absolutely no reason why you cant make a big jump in performance for less than $5k.

The FG intake is a neat setup, you don't necessarily need it but it is neater and works better.

By the sounds of it that's the way you want to go so I would say do it!

Always plenty of good parts for sale from people doing another round of upgrades so keep your eyes out on Facebook groups, etc.

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FG plenum is worth doing, you need the get an FG turbo water/heater pipe from the thermostat housing to the back of the motor. I used the plazmaman hot and cold side piping for the stock ba manifold and modified it to fit the fg setup. Get a plazmaman fuel rail while you're going.

Only thing annoying is it stretches the standard b series wiring for the injectors a little.

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I would keep the stock fuel rail, just install a gfb fuel regulator and your good to put a fairly substantial pump behind it. standard regulators dont like large pumps.

 

ive installed fg manifolds on both my barras simply because I hate the placement of the tb on the b series ones. fg ones are easier to make pipework for, neater looking and easier to maintenance.

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