Finally! Was a bastard finding room for it, but it's done now. It may not be some beautiful tig welded stainless masterpiece, but it's functional. Also put an order in for double adjustable Viking front coil overs

 

I'm so jealous of you guys not running inner fenders.....makes your life alot easier with turbo placement.
Looking good

 

What turbo is that? Nice build.

 

I really wanted to run inner fenders, I tried and tried but could t figure out a way to do it without crazy bends for both exhaust and cold side. This turbo is massive coming from a billet 78/75 t4.

It's the billet 80mm s480 clone from Vs racing. 5" inlet and exhaust :/

 

I did it on mine....wasnt easy. Gonna say 50% of fab time was placement of turbo and bracket design.Mine is a Very simular turbo maybe slightly larger frame t6 s475.
Here's mine.
Keep at it!

 

Very nice! Looks great man! This is a t6 s480

 

I really looked into mounting my turbo exactly as you did, but my intercooler is too big, I would have had to remove the grill bracketry etc to get a filter on it

 

Just got off the phone with my machinist. When I dropped off my blocks for machine work, I left him an l33 block and an lm7 block, told him I wanted to use the l33 block if it's possible, if not we will go iron. He sonic checked and then bored the aluminum block. The l33 block sleeves is .100 thick at its thinnest point in the steel sleeve, not on a thrust wall towards the bottom of the sleeve, so we are going ahead with it. 347 l33.

Also ordered my Viking D/a today, 450# spring rate front coil overs

 

Dash, fuel pressure module and the rest of my 9" parts showed up !

 

It's always interesting to see the various turbo mounting schemes used in third gen Nova's.
I had forward roll cage bars to deal with that pretty much dictated where mine went. I wasn't able to run a filter, but mine is way more race than street so I made that consolation.
I have no inner fenders either.

I'm nearing completion of installing a very large custom intercooler as the small Treadstone I had wasn't cutting it at 20 psi and I plan to turn it up. So good that you are going big from the get go there.

Keep up the good work!

 

Yes it is, I google searched for hours looking at turbo 3rd gens trying to get ideas for turbo locations. Thanks man, can't wait to have her back together

 

 

Yummy stuff showing up!

 

new ball joints and coilovers put in, along with my third memeber. Jegs screwed me on my disk brake conversion so I'm trying to get that resolved

 

Wastegates mounted, planning on plumbing the gates back into the down pipe. Twin 44mm gates.

 

Jus bought a treadstone FMIC, gotta rework the big ol t6 s484 in my first gen. Defly sucks trying to package it...especially with inner fenders!
Nice work man, stay at it

 

C'mon guys.... get creative. If the little hondas can fit an S500 U should have no troubles.

 

Looking Good! What did you do with the turbo camaro?

 

Thanks Rk, and looks good!

that little Honda is nasty, watched one of 1320's videos on it. CraZy and the owner seems cools as hell.


got half my hotside wrapped tonight, ran out of wrap. Practiced my tig welding tonight as I have a lot of aluminum to weld and I'm an extreme noob with aluminum tig. Dig okay, could have been worse from r sure.

 

that looks like the Global West Coil over stuff, I'm looking at their front and rear Coil over for my 72, looking at doing a similar deal with the cast hooker manifolds, or make a log type manifold with some .120 wall stuff... Do you have a support going to the frame to help hold that Turbo? Looks like a great build, keep motivating!!!