VL Turbo Conversion

in Part 5 of my VL Holden Commodore project I will take you through the conversion of the Nissan RB30 NA engine to a Turbo engine, I have listed everything that we needed to do the conversion and incase you missed anything I will list them here.
Extractors to suit Turbo, machine face flat and change studs. Rebuild turbo changing seals, New Injectors to suit turbo (bought from Ebay), a Turbo Computer (manual & auto are different), Exhaust system to suit and dump pipe, Fuel Pressure Regulator, Turbo Intake. Some things that are general service items worth doing at the same time, New Spark Plugs, Leads, Timing belt, front main seal kit, fuel and oil filter, new 5lt engine oil and fresh coolant.
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[@punkjake]

When I did my VLT conversion, we just slapped a turbo, intercooler & a few little bits straight onto my series 2 block, no bigger injectors or ECU, ran rich as hell haha only pushed like 8 pound too but it was fun enough for me til I sold it

[@danawick9817]

Nice to see you changed from the rust bucket one to what looks like a better shape one. awesome car sounds great whens it going into the booth looking forward to those vids

[@bluearkcreative]

Nice work Gunman, enjoying your vids, as always heaps of good info. That VL is going to be a real nice sweet ride

[@mitchellferre1652]

Engine bay looks great ! Nice rocker cover !

[@mydogzty]

Just noticed 8:57 some cigrateetes in the car! Hope they're not yours eyyyy Well yea watching the series again, just love the narration on top of all your videos just being yourself and tell it like it is. Cheers

[@TheGunmanChannel]

They may have been back then haha. I gave up smoking a long time ago.

[@Ap-Man]

Nice one mate, you've got yourself a nice ride there.

[@ChumpyChicken2]

Yeah bro! Turbos Spin shit loads more than 8000rpm. I wish I had this info with my VL back in 1996! I had the best car out of all my friends:)

[@Charlie-wr8cu]

keep up the good work man!

[@fatbogan5395]

That sounds fucking sick

[@joshnolte]

Love it mate haha Now to give it a lick of paint over a weekend and it will be a perla!

[@TheGunmanChannel]

Joshua Nolte Its gonna take a lot longer than a weekend.

[@joshnolte]

If I lived in WA or came over there, I would help you do it! We could at least get it in primer. Never know, end of the year I might come there if I can spare the money. I'm trying to save for my engine haha

[@TheGunmanChannel]

I hope you like the heat, its stinking hot that time of year round here, sounds like a good idea though. But hope to have it well and truly done by then.

[@boujeePerformance]

Great video gunman haha loved the skid comment!

[@jordanfarrar9955]

I was thinking of putting the rb26tt in a vl but I just put in my silvia lol

[@AndyDiBoy]

I have a rb20det manual in my vk they are great fun.

[@hypercordz]

Hey mate, Iv put a turbo on my none turbo rb30 and my question is where did you put the vacuum diaphragm from the auto gearbox that goes up behind the intake manifold?

[@stephenwilkie8292]

Nice to see that you got the old girl up and running again. What do you plan on doing next to the car.

[@TheGunmanChannel]

Stephen Wilkie Get it painted and body kit on.

[@Velvethamma]

I've never heard it called Doof Doof before but I knew exactly what you were talking about, LOL

[@dogbuggy32]

looks great buddy

[@swolath]

get a blow off value, very good for a turbo , every time you back off, the turbo can go for 200,000 revs to spinning backwards and snap. with a blow off valve it just slows down slowly..

[@TheGunmanChannel]

swolath True, and they sound cool. But tbh I've already blown my budget on this conversion, I plan on giving it a bit of a squirt every now and then but mainly just take it easy so I don't blow it up as you say. Main reason I'm doing this car is to have a project and make loads of cool vids on the transformation.

[@ForcedFalcon]

swolath I've had a lot of turbo cars with no BOV's and never had any problems. When the air backfeeds into the compressor housing the fins 'chop' the air. I've never heard of or seen any turbo destroyed from running no BOV. A lot of people on the internet will run their mouth saying it's bad when they've never had personal experience (Not taking a shot at you).

[@madwogvl]

swolath you don't need a BOV. many cars have never had a BOV and still run fine.

[@thomaspatterson8476]

and you get that mad dose sound of the flutter

[@Brad_hj2tuff]

The n/a inlet manifold flows better then the turbo one. Did you run a decomp plate

[@edbadilla]

Great vid mate!...just a question is it true that rb30 exhaust manifold(turbo) fits on rb20e...if you got info about it well am about to do same with my rb20e to rb20et...cheera mate!

[@danieliles5689]

Hey mate, just wanted to know if you needed a surge tank and bigger fuel pump

[@cohengoodman9204]

Could you leave a list of any extra parts/bits you purchased and the price of parts to get the turbo installed and running smoothly? Cheers in advance.

[@SF80CAMARO]

DOOF. ..DOOF and Doughnuts!! Why not haha!!!Nice.....

[@253UC]

Hey mate, did you get your block tapped for oil pickup for the turbo or did you end up using a sandwich plate on the filter housing?

[@TheGunmanChannel]

There was already a spot with a bung in it so just tapped straight into it.

[@jasonmcgready8655]

The Nissan RB30ET turbo and RB30 non-turbo engines in the VL use identical blocks, hence they have drilled and tapped water and oil fittings for the turbo, and are simply bunged up in the n/a version. There was only a few differences in the whole engine between both aswell, lower comp pistons (not stronger though), a different camshaft profile to optimise the valve timing for the boost, and larger injectors.. this all makes the conversion from na to turo on the vl's Nissan RB30 engine easy.

[@user-mh2do6pe4y]

Hey bro my vl turbo stalls when's stopping at the lights or its ideals really low then stalls. When it's underload runs fine, any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers

[@TheGunmanChannel]

Do what I did, sell it and buy a Corolla.

[@matthewharris7691]

Sup bro any chance you can give me a quick rundown on how you wired your headunit

[@SHADYFUN]

Hey Gunman nice work hey what paint did you use to get that awesome factory alloy finish on the intake and turbo pipe I e got ht 308 intake that's been painted black and would love the factory look on it again 🤘🏽

[@TheGunmanChannel]

+Ryan Jones I just used a fine metallic silver from memory

[@SHADYFUN]

Thanks heaps man

[@iceman5878]

Will be a monster! Any idea about the colour on? :-)

[@TheGunmanChannel]

Adam Kun Its going that colour I did the boot in

[@bikeking5259]

How did you adjust the air fuel ratio??

[@fullnoyz7670]

Tricking the afm what you see him doing with the multimeter

[@Jerryberry180497]

How many kilometres were on the engine when the turbo conversion was done? and how is it handling it?

[@TheGunmanChannel]

360,000 and kills it

[@Jerryberry180497]

+The Gunman oh sweet man How much psi are running?

[@TheGunmanChannel]

Can't remember, already sold it. I didn't have a boost gauge on it but he did plug one up while tuning.

[@scootbmx01]

just curious why you wouldnt do a front mount when you were doing the conversion?

[@frootloose8584]

Money ;)

[@benzlover55]

Im going to assume that the visual mods from the black VL are next?

[@TheGunmanChannel]

benzlover55 Yep body kit and full respray.

[@icloudhenshaw38]

@thegunman 8k rpm more like 150k but have you seen the film the gunman?

[@TheGunmanChannel]

iCloud Henshaw I must have miss heard my mate, he must have meant 80k not 8k, never seen that movie yet is it any good? Sean Penn I believe.

[@icloudhenshaw38]

The Gunman I was going to see it i thought to myself i recognize that name they totally ripped the name of your channel aha, the turbo in my golf spins about 130k i believe at 3500 RPM but its about half the size of yours

[@GRUDGEPERFORMANCE]

hey just wondering what inch is your exhaust??

[@SwPiotrek]

What displacement and power it has?

[@samuelgrieco8600]

So just a stock bottom end?

[@thenightangel6533]

do you have to change the computer?

[@TheGunmanChannel]

I didn't have to

[@dimasdownunder146]

is there i kit that i can buy to convert to turbo and its legal

[@BovoM8]

stock pistons and rings?

[@KieranRand]

i love how we all of a sudden have an rb30 motor and we search for the same shit.

[@BovoM8]

hahahaha

[@mr.dos3kaz999]

where are u gunman it isnt the same without u :(

[@TheGunmanChannel]

I'm just here

[@markjames3917]

Just be careful and don't drive it too hard as a n/a rb30 has a higher compression than a factory turbo engine

[@TheGunmanChannel]

Yeah that's what I'm told, I take it easy most of the time.

[@markjames3917]

Still won't hurt to give it a squirt here and there haha

[@Fellafoe69]

The Gunman Drive it as hard as you like as long as it doesn't ping or lean out, I recommend getting a nistune installed in the ecu and a intercooler since it will probably ping without it when summer comes along.

[@vlturbz7976]

hahahaha

[@deantarpey4906]

you never went for a spin down the street

[@mattwilliams147]

Sorry mate usually love your videos as I'm in to paint. This was interesting but not what I expect from the gun man. Sorry again bit thought best to be honest

[@TheGunmanChannel]

Matthew Williams That's fine but its part of a video set I'm doing on my car and couldn't leave this important piece of documentation out.

[@scoot4leif22]

The Gunman thanks for not leaving it out! vids are awesome keep doin what you're doin :)

[@JETBYE]

did you say 8000rpm turbo spin lol try 60k rpm -100k rpm

[@alycestapleton]

YUSEHZ QT 100k 150k rpm the turbo spins at 60 k wtf has to be over 100k rpm your clueless also

[@JETBYE]

@@alycestapleton A turbo spins very fast; most peak between 80,000 and 200,000 RPM (using low inertia turbos, 150,000-250,000 RPM) depending on size, weight of the rotating parts, boost pressure developed and compressor design.

[@jackhoye538]

cant believe you reuined this car with that ugly colour ! good work though