This car is sick!!! Who did your fabricating, did you?

I am in the Austin area, too. Slowly working on my own turbo kit.

 

yep , all fabrication was done by me. What part of austin are you from?

 

I am in Hyde Park area.

What are you doing for headers? Any pics of the merge collector/hotside?

 

i do on my old computer, but it crashed so i will check if i can find pics i uploaded somewhere or something

if not, i plan on taking the cross over section of next weekend to clean up a few things and i can take some better pics for you

I am using stock truck manifolds flipped backwards, works great and is very easy to work with. Have 2.25" v-bands welded off of the truck manifolds for easy install/ reinstall( complete turbo kit can be taken off in 20minutes) my cross over is made up of 2.25" stainless steel piping to try and make spooling as quick as possible

 

Nice! That sounds real similar to what I am doing. I am shooting you a PM about welding the V-bands onto the manifolds.

 

Car sounds great!! The upgrades shd make it even more fun to drive.

 

Looks, and sounds great! Can't wait to see how the GT45 runs on my LQ4.

 

can anyone tell me the hp diff between the cheapo ebay gt45 at $280 and the Master Power GT45 at the higher price maybe near $600..
car looks to move out nice..

 

Car would be so much faster with a auto

 

these arent full throttle runs, just some fun driving around town

And this is a stock 5.3, with the new heads and cam setup it should really wake the car up

 

Do you have any pics of the oil line set up? im geting ready to do this exact build into a 240sx and i would love to see how you did the oil feed/return.

 

nice ride man, nice work, i have been shocked on some of the numbers i see from the lil 5.3 on boost,keep up the good work and lets get some damn wot pulls

 

What year is your 5.3? You didn't have any trouble with anything mating up at all did you

 

OP, what size A/R is the exhaust housing on that turbo?

 

i can get some pics of my oiling system tomorrow

here is the turbo specs

Compressor Size: Inlet = 4 3/16", Inducer = 68.7MM, Exducer = 97.8 MM, Trim = 69,A/R = 0.66, Intake (ID / OD) = 2.25" / 3.25"

Turbine: Outlet = 4", Turbo flange = T4, Downpipe flange = 3.5" V-band, Inducer = 87.4 MM, Exducer = 77 MM,Trim = 92, A/R = 1.05


This car should really come alive once i put the new custom ground cam and the ported heads on, hoping to get full boost by 3000 rpms and make 630ish on 6psi, hopefully 700 wheel on 9-10psi

 

Yeah that looks like a fun driver. Sounds good too. What did you use for tuning?

 

Hp tuners

 

Do you like the Gt45 better then the T70..
you plan on running Meth
what heads do you have on their presently
how is the out of boost power
thanks

 

Heads are the stock 5.3 heads

Havent run the same turbo on the same car so i wouldnt know

Pre-boost power isnt horrible, but once i get the new cam setup in i am expecting it to really wake up. It makes 1.5-2psi by 2200 rpms so its really not that sluggish, it spools very fast in my opinion

 

updates? vids?