Turbo JZX-100 Chaser Makes Some Smooth Power On The Dyno!

Alright boys, today is an exciting day because we are putting the JZX100 chaser on the dyno. So as of right now, this thing is pretty much stock, stock engine. We just put it in, it's a stock 1JZ-GTE-VVTI turbo engine that was supposed to come in this thing from the factory, but this one had the non-turbo engine in it. So we decided, hey, let's put a turbo engine in it. In the last video, we discovered that the stock ECU that we were going to run on this thing, to just keep it simple, we wanted to keep it simple. It had a big, the capacitors were leaking in it, and pretty much completely destroyed the ECU, or at least destroyed it enough to where we wouldn't be able to get it fixed in time. So what we did is we overnighted an ECU master EMU black with a plug-and-play adapter harness to the JZX100 that integrates with the chassis. So now we have a bunch of fancy stuff. We have a built-in internal map sensor. We have the wideband controller that's linked to the ECU so we can do a bunch of stuff with fueling. And you have full control over it, whereas with the stock ECU, you had no control over it. I mean, the Toyota ECUs are really, really good, and these things can put up with a lot, and that's kind of why I wanted to keep it simple. But as long as we get this EMU black tuned in really good, this thing should be probably more reliable because you have a brand-new engine. We can set our own safety parameters and all that other stuff, and that's exactly what we're going to do. These things should, it should probably make 280 to 300, but I want to hear your guess. Maybe we'll turn up the boost. Right now it's on baby boost, the stock boost, which is like 7 or 8 pounds. Do a couple pulls, make sure everything looks good, and then we will turn up the boost and see what we can end up making with this thing. I'm excited. All right, so on our first pulls right there, the very first pull was 305 horsepower, and I did that one in third gear because, you know, you could see the road speed was 96 miles an hour. Then the second pull, I decided to do that one in fourth. I did go and calibrate the speed to match the RPM for the fourth gear pull or whatever, but you could see that one went to 134 miles an hour. But 312 horse and 338 foot-pounds of torque, and just super, super solid. So air fuel is super dialed, and so the first pull, I just kind of logged everything, made sure it was good. There's an auto-tune feature in the ECU master, and so I just went there, went to the column where it said I think it was at, like, 92% VE, and it wanted, like, 96% VE. So I went ahead, applied 96% to that column. I looked at the fuel table, and I kind of blended it out to the sides a little bit, made it look a little bit more normal, you know, to that surrounding area because, you know, we're at a specific load right here today, whereas you never know on the street it might get in another weird load cell sometime in, like, fifth gear or something. So blended out the fuel in there to where that all should match up really good, but you could see right here, look at that, 300 foot-pounds of torque at 3,000 RPM, and I'm basically just giving her throttle right there. So 300 foot-pounds of torque at 3,000 RPMs, whereas if you guys remember this previously, I guess I could go and show the previous dyno runs of it, but it didn't make, it made 150 horsepower at, like, 5,000 RPM, and right now you can see we're making 300, let's see, 300 horse at, like, 4,200 RPM. So double the horsepower, probably 2,000 or 3,000 RPMs sooner, and a ton of torque, which translates to this thing actually driving really, really good for it being a heavy sedan. So the next thing that we need to do is turn up the boost. So we're going to go get the manual boost controller. These things should be pretty easy to do. There's a line that goes right to the bottom of the turbo, and then it goes from, well, it's right here out of the compressor housing, so we just take that off, and then that goes straight to the wastegate actuator. Turn it up to, like, maybe 14, 15 PSI, and this thing should be good. It's kind of an uneventful dyno day. It was pretty simple, and that was a pretty good base map on their setup as well, too. So I still am waiting on the other intake manifold with the idle air control and all that other stuff. Right now we just have the idle set manually with the throttle body screw, but everything is going super, super solid. We still have the mass airflow sensor in here, and it is reading intake air temp from that, but we will swap it over to the actual IT soon. So we just installed a manual boost controller right here. There she is, grim speed. I think this came with a Subaru I had. Boost controller coming right off the compressor housing, going straight down to the wastegate. And typically on, like, a 1J, what you normally have to do to get them to make a little bit more boost is space out the wastegate actuator to pull a little bit more tension on it so it will hold more boost. But we'll just see. We'll see how this guy is doing. So I'm going to hop in there. I set the boost controller with one of these. It's like a vacuum slash boost tester. So this cool thing, you get it on Amazon. I put the link in the description, but it's pretty cool because you could actually pull a vacuum on stuff, and then you switch it over, and you could actually apply up to 40 or 43-bar boost. So pretty good, which is really nice for testing stuff like this to kind of set that before we stick it in the car because we could be messing with that thing and have to do a bunch of pulls to get it set right. So pretty much what I did is I connected it and watched this, and I watched it release at about 1 bar or about 14 psi of boost. And so what that does is that just lets us know that the manual boost controller is going to blow off about 14 pounds so that way we don't stick it in here and it tries to hit 20 right away because it's too aggressive or that we just run 10 pounds for 5 different pulls. This kind of eliminates that. So hopefully we should land around 14 pounds of boost. We'll see how that does, but let's fire it up and see what she makes. So 370 foot-pounds of torque at 4,000 RPM, whereas in the previous runs it was 338. So we gained 70—no, 338. Gained 30 foot-pounds of torque just by doing that. The boost is—so it's hitting more boost sooner, but then it's tapering off at the top. So let me see what it was at in the log. So it peaks at 29 minus 12, so that's basically 16 pounds of boost, and then it tapers all the way to 10 pounds of boost at the top. So we're at the same boost at the top. That's why it's not making any more power. And that's what I was saying before. With the stock wastegates, they have kind of a weak spring in them, and so just the back pressure inherently will keep them open, will blow them open because it's such a small turbo. So in order to kind of cheat the system, you almost need to take off the wastegate housing and put some washers behind it to pull some more tension on the spring, on the diaphragm, so that way it holds that boost a little bit longer. Because we're making a lot of boost down low now, but the problem is it's losing it up top. And if we had the electronic boost controller on there, we could add more duty cycle to it to try to keep the gate closed longer, but we just don't have the electronic one on here right now. But also, it's fun to clutch. So that's what that was. It made 433 foot-pounds of torque at 3400 RPM. So a lot of torque, super, super low in the RPM range, and that's when it spun the clutch. So this was just like an organic single disc, and so we should be able to just stick a six-puck in there and help it out, or maybe we need to see what other clutch options are available. I don't know. But fueling and everything looks really good. Now we just have the clutch issue of not wanting to hold the power, but I kind of want to pull it off and go drive it on the street and see how it feels now that it's actually working. And then maybe once we do a couple other little things to it, we'll stick it back on the dyno and kind of play with it some more. So I just loaded the previous dyno run that we did on here right now. So you can see, this was it non-turboed. Look at all that power. Look at that. So 164 foot-pounds of torque at 4200 versus 370 underneath 3800 right there, which is pretty wild. And then you can see a peak. Peak horsepower was at 6200 RPM or whatever, 6250, whereas peak horsepower right here is at 5200. So, you know, not quite double that, but over double the torque, which is crazy at such a low RPM, which is going to make this thing just so much more drivable and more fun to drive around. So that's one of the cool things about the JZs. The 1J specifically is that the turbo is really a proper size turbo to where it makes a ton of torque down low, and it just makes it super fun and snappy. So, yeah, we're going to unhook it, go drive it on the street, and I think we got an overnight clutch. We got an overnight clutch. So I know the giveaway at this point is probably only maybe it has a day left, maybe it already ended, or it's getting ready to end at the end of this video. So the giveaway on this thing ends on the 31st at midnight. Right now it is the 28th in the afternoon. I don't know if we could get a clutch coming for tomorrow, but I definitely think we're going to upgrade the clutch in this so that way it does not do this, and then we'll put it back on the dyno and make some more power and turn it up just a little bit more. So rest assured we will for sure fix it, get it all dialed in, but right now let's get her unloaded. I want to go drive it on the street and see how it is. We'll probably turn the boost down a little bit more and go from there. Yeah. All right, guys, we got the Chaser on the lift, and as you guys saw in the last video, the clutch started slipping. So Trevor went ahead and got a new clutch, a nice 6-puck. This is the old guy. Transmission out. Go ahead and get that slapped in there and maybe turn up the boost and see if this thing will handle it. All right, back at the Chaser. Eric got the clutch installed today, right? Whoa, yeah. It's all good? Ready to go? Ready to rip. So we got a 6-puck competition clutch, and Eric just put that thing in no time. You can see that the factory clutch right here was not the factory clutch. This was a competition clutch, which this was meant kind of for the non-turbo. When we first seen this, I should have just got a clutch right away. When we split the transmission for the first time and I seen this, I should have said, you know what? Let's get a more aggressive clutch. We found out on the dyno really quick. So new clutch is in, 6-puck. I'm going to drive it up and down the street a little bit, kind of do a couple other things, and then we're going to stick it on the dyno, and then we should be able to turn up the boost a little bit more and go from there. So that is the goal. That's the plan, and I think it would be cool to see this thing make 400 pounds of torque. You know, like that's pretty cool, right? That would be nice. All right, back on the dyno. Less than a day later, we're here ripping again. Going to see how many hrsprs we can—mostly the torque. I know it's not going to make that much more power up top because this turbo only flows so much, but if we could get some more boost in it down low, that's where it should really shine. All right, so we did end up putting two washers behind the wastegate to space it out, hold a little bit more tension on it. So that should allow us to carry a little bit more boost at the top. I think on the last pull, it peaked. It was like 29 psi on here, but that includes the atmosphere of like 12 psi or whatever. So it peaked at 29, minus 12. So that was like 16, 17 pounds. And then it tapered down to like 22 pounds of boost atmospheric. So again, about 10 pounds of boost. So basically that's why it made a lot more torque the last pull, but then it fell off to stock power. And now we're going to see if adding the washers to the wastegate, holding more tension on it, will then allow it to carry more boost up top because it's not blowing that wastegate open. And that's what we're going to do. So taking a look at this right here, this is technically with the boost like turned down a little bit. You can see the other day, the peak it made was 307. Today it made 308. The other day it made 370. So it had more torque a little bit sooner. That was also with the boost control turned up. And I believe when the clutch spin, we turned the boost controller back down a bit. And then that's where this dyno is today. So we're going to mess with the boost controller a little bit. So technically it made less power today, further, but the boost controller is not turned up. So we're going to do that, but it maintained the faster peak torque. So we're going to twist this guy a little bit. We're going to see what that does. So we have some final numbers for you here on the dyno. As you can see right there, 384 foot-pounds of torque and 309 horsepower. And I decided to turn down the boost controller a little bit more. It's just hitting a lot of boost down low, and it's not carrying it up top. So there's no reason to have it peak that low. So it's probably more so on the 370 torque setting right now. But pretty much making the same exact power because it's carrying that little extra boost up top now because we put those washers in there. And again, this was at non-turbo, 178 foot-pounds of torque and 191 horsepower. So lots of almost double the torque for sure. And then the horsepower, we gained 120 horse. But we gained 120 horse, you know, way down here. What is the power right there? That's 140. So we doubled the horsepower right there at 4,200 RPM, which most of the time when you're driving this thing on the street, you're going to be under 5,000 RPMs. And that's where that like 3,000 to 5,000, you know, lots of horsepower, lots of torque window goes. You're not really revving this thing out like crazy unless you're drifting it or, you know, you're trying to race somebody. We're pretty much at the limit of the stock turbo and the stock injectors right now. I think we could get a little bit more out of the turbo, but then we're running out of injector as well. Again, the whole plan with this whole build was to keep it simple. And we were going to just leave it on the stock ECU. And then because we had the issues with the capacitors in the ECU is what led us to the ECU master as our solution. But the map and everything on it, everything looks really dialed. Everything on the street looks really, really good. I turned on a 10% fuel correction too. So wherever this thing goes with its like elevation, whether it goes high or low or anything like that, it should correct for all that. But air fuel was super dialed without the correction on. That's just like a little bit of insurance. Yeah. Ignition is super soft. Everything is pretty, everything's pretty dialed. Everything's pretty simple. So this thing should make somebody a really, really good car and a good base because literally injectors and a turbo, like you could get a Tomy turbo or I think there's a couple other companies that make some stuff. Or you can just put an Artec turbo manifold on this thing, put a G30 on it, like a G30 660 and make some thousand CCD twerks. This thing already has a fuel pump. It already has the ECU. All it needs is injectors and a manifold and it has the nice intercooler on it too. So literally this thing should be able to make like 450 to 500 horse, like no problem in the future. And you're only basically two parts away from that. Alright boys, driving off the dyno. We'll take it for a spin down the road. Just playing with the launch control settings a little bit, just so it has something on it, you know. That's the cool thing about this, this ECU is you can just play with a bunch of stuff. You can mess with a bunch of things. And this thing is like the perfect base for whoever wins this thing in the future. If they want to, you know, put bigger injectors in it and put a bigger turbo on it. So what you've seen really didn't make that much more power. Is it like 90% duty cycle at the top of the RPM. But it's holding more boost now. Yeah, it feels super solid. But it's holding a little bit more boost up at the top. But the problem is, is these injectors are only 370cc's from the factory. And the turbo doesn't, obviously if we put an electronic boost controller we can add a little bit more duty cycle. Yeah, clutch is holding good. Really good car. This thing is seriously the perfect base. Bigger turbo and injectors. This thing will make 500 and would be super, super spicy. Kind of wish we would have, kind of wish we could have done that now. But today is probably the last day of the giveaway. So if you haven't got any entries yet, now's a good time. We also added the F450. So the F450 giveaway just started. So it's two separate giveaways. But if you buy during the last couple days of this giveaway, you didn't win both. So a pretty successful dyno day. A little over 300 horsepower and 370 foot pounds of torque. Makes this thing super fun to drive. All the turbo noises that it makes at like low boost levels. Like let's say under 3 pounds. Compressor surge. And then as soon as you get over that, the Garrett blow off valve blows off. And it just sounds super sweet. Again, huge shout out to True Focus Fabrication for making this super sick intercooler. And putting this out into the community. Now people can buy these intercoolers. We've got the Sick Coil Radiator. We've got the Greddy Hoses. We've got the ECU Master. We've got the Dietschwerks fuel pump in it. And all of that stuff can be purchased off of Motion Auto TV. MotionAutoperformance.com Which will get you entries for a chance to win this car. Not only this car. This car ends at the end of the month, October 31st. Which is probably today as you guys are watching this. We also launched our next giveaway a little bit early. So it's technically two giveaways going on at the same exact time. But if you purchase anything on the website right now before the end of the giveaway. Let's say you buy a hat and you get 100 entries. You get 100 entries into the Chaser as well as the F-450. So pretty crazy. And it's a great time for you guys to hop on there. Anything you guys purchase during the giveaway helps support the channel. Helps support the builds like the Civic and the S14. And building cool stuff like this. And it also gives me the chance to scratch my own itch. Which is building a really cool car. Get to experience it. And then pass it along to somebody else. One of our recent winners, Lau. He won the Evo 9 back in December. He drove it for about six months. And then he ended up selling it. And then put that money towards a house. Like the down payment on a house. And so he took, you know, something. I don't know if he would have the $25,000 just in cash to put in it. But he sold the car. I think it was for a little over $25,000. And then he was able to use that money. So it definitely changed his life after he was able to enjoy the car for six months. So I know a lot of people, sometimes they keep the car. Sometimes they take the cash. Sometimes they drive the car for a year or two. And then they end up selling it at the end of the day. It's their choice. But the F-450 is definitely crazy. Eric put a 2-inch leveling block on the front. Raised it up a little bit more. And then we put in the gloss black grill. And so it spiced it up quite a bit more. Because it was rubbing a little bit right here on this back fender. So we raised it up a little bit more. And this thing is an absolute beast. I don't know. I don't know what's wrong with me. It's pretty crazy. The F-450 also comes with $25,000 in cash too. That's the highest cash prize we've ever offered with a vehicle. So that thing will for sure change somebody's life. And I've got to figure out another truck. Because that's the truck. So for the remainder of the giveaway, I still will be driving that thing. Like towing and stuff. But definitely a lot less than I am. Because that was pretty much my daily for a little while. So I've still got to figure out another truck. But if you guys haven't got any entries for the Chaser or the F-450, you might be a little silly. But I appreciate you guys watching this. Thank you for the support. See you later.