Who say building a turbo kit is hard?
03-29-2009, 09:19 PM
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Who say building a turbo kit is hard? Its very hard[/I]I been working on this for a while. Taking welding classes at the local college and it was well worth it. I mounted the turbo 3 times in 3 different locations. First it was on the passenger side,
It didnt fit then i moved it right in front of the crank twards the bottom and slanted the radiator forward and i didnt like that.
So after seeing Mike Browns car at us41 and talking to him i liked the way he had his set up, so i went off that,
So far so good. Now i have to refab up the pipes from the manifolds to the t6 flange again
I went with a 4" down pipe through the K member and ran right into the starter.
Now I have to decide should i dump right in front of the starter or route it under the starter? I want to go as far back as i can with the exhaust.
Moral of the story is a lot og guys think its easy like i did.
A lot of guys this turbo kits are over priced like i did.
A lot of guys think its cheep. Saying how to build a cheep turbo kit.
Well its not easy and its not cheep. I have spent well over 10k in just the engine and turbo it self not including the pipes the that are stainless steel and the tri mix gas used to weld it either.
or the intercooler,
or the wastegate.
Not easy at all and it take planning and a lot of hours.
It didnt fit then i moved it right in front of the crank twards the bottom and slanted the radiator forward and i didnt like that.
So after seeing Mike Browns car at us41 and talking to him i liked the way he had his set up, so i went off that,
So far so good. Now i have to refab up the pipes from the manifolds to the t6 flange again
I went with a 4" down pipe through the K member and ran right into the starter.Now I have to decide should i dump right in front of the starter or route it under the starter? I want to go as far back as i can with the exhaust.
Moral of the story is a lot og guys think its easy like i did.
A lot of guys this turbo kits are over priced like i did.
A lot of guys think its cheep. Saying how to build a cheep turbo kit.
Well its not easy and its not cheep. I have spent well over 10k in just the engine and turbo it self not including the pipes the that are stainless steel and the tri mix gas used to weld it either.
or the intercooler,
or the wastegate.
Not easy at all and it take planning and a lot of hours.
Last edited by bumpin_records; 03-29-2009 at 09:42 PM.
