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Didn't want the wast gate exhaust exiting into atmosphere so I exhausted it back into the downpipe. I went to the wreckers and found these accordion flex joints on a Grand Am I believe , cheap!


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Believe it or not the downpipe slips in and out easily.

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Also found out that when grinding on the hotside flange I used the gasket supplied to me by Race Parts solutions, when putting that gasket on the turbo the turbo ports were waay too small, needless to say I had to port match the exhaust housing so the hotside exhaust wasn't hitting a dead end.

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Heres a look of that f body pan in the car

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Cold side pipe coming off the turbo compressor heading to the intercooler



This is a top view

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Got the good motor in and in this pic I coated all the hot side with vht manifold paint , supposedly good for 2500 degrees. If I were to do it again, I woulda left it al natural.

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For running my MSD under the dash I had to put a hole in the firewall. Found a trailer light grommet that was could do the job but required a 3 inch hole.


Excuse the mess

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Polished the valve covers........total waste of time you cant see them anyways! I've Read all these pages of trying to get crankcase pressure out of the motor so I decided to drill and tap the covers for fittings. People I know have had issues welding on these covers so this is the route I took. The drivers side one was fitted with a dash 10 braided line and the passenger side with a dash 8 line . Also went to the down pipe and weld on a pan o vac system. To add to all of that I hole sawed the oil filler cap and installed a grommet and filter on there too.

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Drilled the waterpump for the steam lines

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Turbo oil return line through the frame

Runs over to the timing cover , this is a bad pic

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Cold side fitted , welded , knock off blow off valve installed also.


I have since shortened the hose to pull it away from the coldside tub and have a 1/8 of an inch bettween the tube and rad.

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Fuel system done, Aeromotive boost referenced regulator mounted on the fender. I drilled the regulator out and tapped it for a 1/4 inch bolt. Got a small gauge to set base pressure with screwed in there also.


Ran 1/2 inch line up to the regulator and 5/8 back to the fuel cell. as far as pump I used a Magnafuel 500 pump with a Summit dash 10 filter



From the regulator I ran -8 braided up to the carb.
Also added a turbo blanket from FTC



As far as fuel cell , used a 10 gallon, mounted it fully in the trunk so nothing was showing underneath , also picked up a new Optima battery to replace the 9 year old one I had in the car.

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Turbosmart manual controller

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Extended the vents on my carb

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Another trip to the store, more 4 inch 45 degree bends, cutting welding, a 4 inch bullet , hanger and done

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The rear end, its the factory diff that came with the car. Its had the tubes welded, Moser c clip eliminator, Superior 12 bolt 30 spline axles, 30 spline Strange spool. It had 4.88 gears , we have now installed motive 3.42 gears. Notice my one 4 inch dump at the diff ?

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First start up of the car, it fired right up like it was fuel injected !
Excuse the crappy video

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Another crappy vid

First time at the track on ten pounds boost 15 degrees timing

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First time to the 1/4 mile track. 10 pounds boost , 14 degrees timing on pump fuel. The did go a 1.44 sixty foot that day!

krwyellowZ28

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Great build and nice times!

rindoze

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I am actually in the processes of doing the same thing for my 78 camaro, LY6 with s475 turbo, motor parts coming this week! Would you mind sharing where you got your turbo and all the piping and flanges needed? Was the cross member notch needed from using the lower engine mounts?