WHEW, took a while but here are pictures as promised!

Here is the car on the dyno the day it broke. You can see the new 16" fan, and a turbo blanket that we borrowed since the one Chris ordered wasn't in yet.


And here is the tube that exploded


Driving it back home


Here is the patched down pipe. This was going to be a temporary fix, and now is not going back on the car at all.


Here is the waste gate after I moved it. Again, this wont be on the car next year either


Start of the dump tube which, you guessed it, wont be on the car next year


Lastly, here is the new shroud on the radiator (before it was modded with new fittings).


With the new 10" fans mounted up.



That's all for now. I don't think we will have much to update for a while, but when we do it should be good.



Thanks,
Sean

 

I think since that turbo needs work it's time to make room for a bigger one!

 

Very nice work! Where you get the coating on your hot side, or is that paint?

 

All of the piping is ceramic coated inside and out. It was done by Q.C. Coating in Utica MI. Fantastic company to deal with, great prices, quick turn around.

Sean

 

Thanks alot!

 

I think its time for 2!

 

Bigger single ftw. I just have to decide what im going with now... Hmmm

 

Promod 88

 

That sucks guys, I hope you get it all taken car of. Car has been in a long time in the making..

 

It's that time of year again, time to work on the TA! Well technically we usually don't start so early, but we don't want to miss another race season so we got on it early. As you all know we made some pretty major changes to the car last year. That took us longer than expected, but we wanted everything to be perfect. Unfortunately when it came time to get it on the dyno we had some problems. Some minor, some major, but because of how late in the year it was already it ended our chances of racing at all. So we took a bit of a vacation from the car, and worked on a game plan. Chris ordered up parts, and I traveled around to a bunch of races "doing research"

Enough talking, lets get down to the work!! We start with the fun part, mounting the new turbo. The new turbo is just a bit larger than the old one. We planned on changing turbos when we built the new turbo kit last winter so we had tried to account for a larger unit. In reality, we did not give ourselves enough space so we had some work to do. We started by welding the new T6 flange to the transition after we had cut it as short as possible. While I was welding that up Chris cut the v-band off of the merge since we needed the turbo to go as low as possible, and we know that we wont be changing the T6 flange any time soon.

Here is the merge all welded up with the new T6 flange


After that we had to make some room on the frame rail for the outlet of the turbo. Chris notched it, and we cut a piece of 4" 16ga stainless to weld back in.





Here is the finished product with the turbo mounted up!






How about some info on the turbo eh As you can tell, its a bit bigger than before. This new one is a Garrett GT5533R, 94mm, dual ball bearing, billet wheel. Should take care of us for quite a while I would think! Here are a few more shots of it.




This give you an idea of how high it sits now.


Next up came the down pipe. This time we decided to stick with the more traditional stainless steel. Not much to it, there is a 5" v-band to 4" transition at the turbo, then its all 4" from there out. Still using the aluminum muffler with the aluminum tip (I don't know what else to call it) coming out of the front bumper.

Here you can see we have a lot more clearance between the down pipe and the intercooler pipe.


Here is the finished product


Showing the alignment. The outlet of the new turbo was shifted to the back of the car because of the larger size.


While I was welding the down pipe Chris installed the new high amp alternator. This should solve our electrical problems!


That's about all for now. We also mocked up the new radiator (the start of most of this project) and came up with a loose game plan for mounting it. We are still waiting on the new larger wastegate so we can figure that out. Next weekend we should have a good start on the intercooler piping. We need to get the wastegate so we can figure that out, then it will all get pulled out of the car. All of the piping will get re-coated, along with the turbo. The motor is going to get freshened up, and some little things to help it live a little longer. We are planning on running strong next season, and want to be ready before the season even starts! We are only one weekend in, but we got further than I planned. We should have some good progress each weekend for a little while. Thanks for following along!

Sean

 

about time yall posted something up!

 

Yeah, we know. After all of that work, just to get let down by stupid problem after stupid problem we just needed to step away. Really we were forced to step away because Chris isn't made of money. It worked out just fine though and we were able to come up with a good game plan because of it. The car is going to be bad *** next season, and we should have it ready with with time to spare!

Sean

 

Plenty of room for a 5" DP it looks, why neck it down to 4"? After all the best exhaust for a turbo is nothing at all

 

This car is amazing!!

 

I told him we could fit 5" before we got started, but he doubted me! It will be OK for now though, not even close to pushing this turbo. So are we still going heads up next year?!?!

Thanks guys!


Sean

 

Heads the **** up for sure, I drag race not bracket race

 

Damn straight! My money's on Unit

 

My money is on the guy with the MWC 9" rearend and suspension

 

The guy that bought his rear end first right?

 

Can i bet you on this reject? We will lock something in