Crazy Single Turbo G80 M3 Build - Turbo Smart 8280

Behind me we have a monster of a build. We have a G8 EM3 with a huge single turbo. This is the latest turbo smart turbo on the market and it's an absolute monster. This thing spools up so quick that I'm not even noticing that I've got a big turbo instead of the stock hybrids and daily driving it feels amazing. But not only that, it pumps out 1200 bhp. Yeah 1200 brake on this setup. So it's been a little while since I put a video out and if you haven't noticed the workshop's now changed. The dyno area is fully built and we're about a week away from opening up our mechanical side and while that's been going on we've been creating this monster. So we've built the engine in-house, we've built the gearbox in-house, we've done the fueling system, we've also added on methane injection, we've done the mapping and our friends over at Overkill have supplied us with this single turbo manifold and turbo kit. Building a 1200 brake G8 is one thing but making it completely drivable like stock on the road was another complete challenge altogether. So we're very careful with the parts that we did and didn't use on this car. For example it's got no ARP head studs. They don't need to be re-tooled. We haven't made any modifications to the PCV system so you don't get an oily smell when you're driving. We haven't changed the torque converter which gives loads of slip when pulling away although amazing for when you want to use launch control. So we've picked and choosed, we've got the bits that we needed to make the 1200 brake so built engine, built box, huge turbo, amazing fuel system but we're very careful when it comes to things like the drivetrain. So you need to brace the drivetrain, you need to strengthen it but if you go overkill with it then you're going to get a ton of harshness and vibration and although our 1500 brake GAT is a road car and I do use it as a daily because of the bracing and because of the carbon seats that we've got it doesn't drive like a standard car where this one honestly if you looked at it and you got in it and I didn't put my foot down in it you would have no idea that this thing is hiding 1200 brake horsepower. So let's talk about this big 1200 brake. Well actually there's a load of other numbers behind it. 1200 brake is when it's running on ethanol but we have also and a combination of 99.1 and methanol. So on 99.1 only this is making 850 bhp which is still crazy for a daily driver but it gives us a ton of reliability and 99.1 isn't actually the greatest fuel out there so you do lose a lot of power when compared to race fuels but adding that methanol and it's a game changer. Instead of us being capped at 850 we've increased the power to close to 1100 brake horsepower and with that 1100 brake he can use that daily. In the boot is a methanol tank, inside the car is a meth controller that can be switched on and off so if he wants to drive at 850 brake or 1100 brake he's got it there every day of the week. This car utilizes our 1769 same day unlock and also we're flashing the gearbox via the 1769 app as well. For the engine it's running on mhd and that also controls the reflex controller which works as our port injection system and as a boost controller. This car same day unlock and yeah it has all of these modifications on it so if you're wondering if you can get more or less out of the same day unlock the answer is you can run everything on that system. Fueling is where we take no chances. On this we've got six 1050x injectors from Injector Dynamics and we've got an additional two Walbro fuel pumps in the tank. Yep that means it's got three fuel pumps, it's got 12 injectors and it's actually also got seven methanol injectors on this as well. So when it comes to fueling we've got loads. We have done some modifications on the vanos system as well so for you guys that are in the know you'll know when you try to push big power on these it's easy for the vanos to deviate. If you watch my previous videos you would have seen us talking about converting over to a single high pressure pump, capping down the DI. Well in the end we ended up putting in a partial lock in the vanos cams which still allows us some movement but when on full power and high boost we no longer have to worry about our vanos deviating from target. How does 1200 brake correlate in real world conditions? So with this car here we're expecting around a 3.5 to 3.6 hundred to 200 and a high eight second quarter mile if it's got enough traction to get it off the line. We've done a lot of work on these single turbos developing the anti-lag, the launch control, the boost by gear and lots of other bits in the background that stop the car getting upset when it's running high power and when it comes to a car like this now driving in to get a single turbo conversion we can be happy in the fact that we know that we've already produced the numbers on our own car and we've worked for all the niggles that are involved in trying to create something that's running this kind of boost. Deciding whether you're going to do hybrids or a single turbo is a decision that a lot of people get caught up on. Hybrids much much easier to fit, much easier to map, you can get them running really well without doing much to the car. If you're looking to go say over 1100 brake I would always push towards doing a single turbo from our own shop car running hybrids and running on a single turbo we've got to see the limits of both setups and honestly with a single turbo you're limited by everything other than the turbo so as long as you build the engine the box and you get the fuel system right as long as you're doing all the supporting mods these single turbos can literally make as much power as you want. When it comes to the hybrids they generate a lot more heat so yes they do spool up, yes they are cheaper and yes they are quick to install and they honestly they're amazing. If you've got a track car or you don't want to have any impact on daily driving a hybrid can give you a ton of extra power without any compromise. If you just want the car to be as fast as it can be I would actually say that single turbo is the way to do it and plus if you're a big kid like me they make really cool noises. Last night I'm editing our 1200 brake video and I realized I never finished it I got so carried away with the dyno runs that I stopped it there well that customer took that car nearly two months ago he's got just over 1200 brake he's absolutely loving it and since he picked it up we haven't seen him again but anyway behind me we've got a nice orange G80 M3 this has had Mosserman turbos and meth injection it's got daily 900 brake yes it is still a stock engine is still a stock gearbox and he can go to 800 brake on just 99 as well. At the beginning of our video I was saying that our workshop was going to be opening up soon that is now open so let's have a look this is our gearbox and engine building area this is where we get other companies and customers send us gearboxes for stage one and stage two conversions and it's also where we build engines we have a look over here we've got some cool fancy stuff like grillo rods CP pistons reflex controllers we've got blocks for vanos we've got big fuel systems all ready to go and to put on customers cars actually next week we're going to be starting an 1100 brake x3m build and a lot of that is going to be going on over here here's the mechanical area Ryan can often be found hiving away over here this is where our turbos our gearboxes our meth systems all get installed in that corner over there was the engine part that I was just showing you and whether you're coming in for a big single build or you're getting a mid-pipe this is normally where the work starts next door where the video started is our mapping part but it's lovely now to have this new building with so much more space and extra ramps next week we'll have that x3m in we're going to be building up to 1100 brake I'm hoping to document that process for you guys so if you're not already following us and keeping up to date with what we're doing then make sure you do but for now thank you for watching and bye