Damnation: The Cynos Project

Well, a couple of updates to keep me going - I recently received a piece of a puzzle that was missing from my life for over 2 years of searching...

















Can you guess what it is yet?



Yes, I've finally gotten my hands on a Blitz K1-200V turbocharger!! A crap one, but still, I have one! It's got about a meter of shaft play and is leaking oil from every orifice, but still, I have one!! Beyond that though, it has a cracked wastegate too, but the impeller/expeller are immaculate, so that'll be sent off for a rebuild and refurb soon, and should hopefully signify a major step towards....my car not being abysmal. I also had a semi-productive weekend, though not as productive as I would've liked as I failed to receive a certain item.

I travelled down to Bournemouth to join a Dyno Day at Triton, and pop my dyno cherry, and have a laugh at the state of the car. And it was amusing, the ensuing smokescreen dropped the faces of the operators, and stank out the warehouse.




The car produced a paltry 126.6bhp, not that I really care for figures, but what is interesting to note is that the power was produced from a CT9 that is obviously worse for wear, and the boost spiked to 6psi and dropped to 3psi by the redline, so there was barely any boost there! Here are the resulting graph:




This has given me a good starting point now, and by next time I will have sorted out a variety of the issues the car is afflicted with, and get one step towards having it running....well!