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Old 05-31-2010, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Josh@PremierAutosports
Do you already have your turbo kit fabbed? I have a customer with a 5.3 turbo s10 looking to sell his turbo kit and go twin turbo. His truck went 10.0 with a bone stock 5.3 stock cam and all.
Hey does your buddy still have his kit? If so can you get me some pics of it and details on it? Thanks!
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Its all for fun, you do it your way - who cares what everyone says. Its something different I like it.
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Where do you get the intercooler and what did i set you back?
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Thanks for the compliments guys, I'm to the point of the build where just the small things are nickel and diming the hell out of me. Working on finishing up the turbo stuff and then the small misc things under the hood, then will be starting to wire up everything which will take me a good few days...

boosteds10- i got the intercooler off ebay, its a CXRacing brand one, i think it ran me around $175ish...

Got some more small stuff done today, dash is cut and ready to be bent and mouted, wrapped the chargepipe that goes through the cab and into the engine bay. ran some oil lines and a few other small misc things. Its unreal how long all the little bs things take and how frustrating some of it can be lol... Can't wait til its all done, getting sick of working on it lol.
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cxracing brand intercoolers are awesome coolers for the price! We have never had a problem with any of them we have used, Also great build man, Love how your being different I actually put a turbo in the trunk of my 02 35th anniversary convert z28, Now im building a 6.0 front mount on it. Awesome build though. Keep it up
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Looking good man! Say, where did you get the t4 to 3'' transition flange?
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so is this thing running yet or what?? looks great man!
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Originally Posted by 03supercharged
Looking good man! Say, where did you get the t4 to 3'' transition flange?
I got all that stuff form mandrelbends.com

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so is this thing running yet or what?? looks great man!
Its getting real close. Just finishing up all the odds and ends, need an altenator and serp belt, need to wire the whole truck, swap gears, and get a driveshaft. then she should be good to go. I'll get some updated pictures this weekend...
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sounds good bro!
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Here is some update pics of the turbo setup, interior and engine bay...

On the turbo stuff i still need to make a solid mount for the turbo and finish the last bit of my downpipe. On the charge pipe i need to get an IAT bung and then have a buddy weld the bung and BOV flange on then that is all done finally...

Interior- need to install and wire my gauges, paint door panels, paint dash, and paint floor boards. Then finish notching the last bar on my cage and get a back window.

Engine bay- finish rad hoses once my JTR tee comes in for my steam vent, get a serp belt, and a new altenator. then install the engine harness...

only other things left is a driveshaft, install my loop and a few brake lines then i need fluid everywhere..

Onto the pics-
















Got a race in two weeks I want to make so hopefully it all goes well and i can make that...
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that where i was going to put my turbo but use left it right under the bed i still want to be able to use my bed and already have to much going in there...looks cool though.
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looking good man keep up the great work...you werent kidding about it being a race truck were you!
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Thanks for the compliments guy, ya its def a cut up race truck like i said hahah. oh well lol, it should be alot of fun! Got the gauges in tonight, still need a few switches and LEDs then wire it all up. Got a race in two weeks so i need to work my *** off this next two weeks lol

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Looks good, get her done!
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any updates?
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Got it fired up yesterday actually, i will get a better video (only have a crappy one from my blackberry) and pictures when i leave class and have em posted today. I'm preety happy with everything so far. still have some small issues to figure out and small leaks to fix but thats expected.

So give me some time and i'll get this thread updated...
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sounds good
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I've had a lot of fun reading through your build thread 2XR95Z28, Subscribed! want to see video
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Kinda forgot about this thread, not too many updated pictures as of right now, maybe this weekend sometime...

Truck is "done" and have been driving it around, runs awesome! pulls really hard in boost, only on a 6psi spring right now but have seen a peak of 8psi....

Few issues i still need to work out but everything has been going pretty well so far!

Here is some updated pics-





Thats all i have for now, Will get some better quality and more pics sometime this week or weekend.

Let me know what you guys think or if you have any questions!
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looks great....just need to drop the back a little....but great build


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