The official turbo build thread.

[StereoInstaller1]

So far, your intercooler/fan setup is the best I have seen.

Stealth FTW!

Luke

[240zs30]

Nice work on the intercooler placement. Did you have to cut up any sheetmetal to make it fit? Stealth FTW!

[So Live]

Finally got some stuff done. Not a whole lot but still something.
Fan mounted, IC brackets painted, IC painted and mounted.

Ebay fan mounting hardware blows. i broke two of the tabs slightly pulling on them. Decided to throw some screws through the fan duct (thankfully the fan has about 1cm of space in the duct thing) and into the mounting ears.


Fan mounted:

IC in


W/ grills and valence:


With bumper:


Stealthhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So i sold my catback cause i need money for this project and i had a good head start on the 3 inch stuff. My manifold needs some more work unfortunately so i couldnt ount that and then just make a little turbo delete pipe. I had spare down pipe flanges laying around and some 2.5inch pipe..... :) No bends either. haha so i fabbed up some G-code downpipes from the stock manifolds so i can still drive my car haha. I actually made a pretty decent dual 2.5 to 3" collector I was proud considering the tools i have (chop saw and grinder)
Check it out:







Thats it for today. Tomoro is welding all the seams for real cause theyre all tacked right now. I cant wait to see how loud it is!!!!

[So Live]

I guess at this point, it depends on megasquirt haha. IM so tempted to just ditch this shitty second hand v2.2 board and just buy a ms1v3 kit and stop screwing around with trying to replace enough parts so it works. Oh well. Lessons learned right?

Im really thinking about building a nice tig welded manifold with my time if we can make the flange. Im thinking about going for a nice log manifold to keep cost and time spent to a minimum. Ive been playing with header design and flow for pipes to figure out how i want to go about it haha.

I have to talk to my instructor about the flange tomoro when i have nothing to do all day. Ill be doing the whole exhaust here though. Should be a good way to learn how to tig, right? hahaha oh well. Im pretty excited about this whole shop thing :)

Thanks!

[Widm3r]

Thanks guys! So, turns out i have to take this mechanical skills lab this semester. Its basically a metal shop with a lot of killer machines and we have to bring our own ideas and or parts for projects. The instructor said we have to put in at least 1 hour a week and he said we could put in as many as we wanted. I might make a nice tig welded manifold if we can make the head flange in house. :) im probably gonna tig all my exhaust stuff too. Ill tack it at home w/ my mig machine and bring it to school and tig it to make it look nice here haha. SCORE!

Thats kickass, way to take full advantage of what your school offers. If all goes to plan you should be completing this earlier then expected?

[So Live]

Thanks guys! So, turns out i have to take this mechanical skills lab this semester. Its basically a metal shop with a lot of killer machines and we have to bring our own ideas and or parts for projects. The instructor said we have to put in at least 1 hour a week and he said we could put in as many as we wanted. I might make a nice tig welded manifold if we can make the head flange in house. :) im probably gonna tig all my exhaust stuff too. Ill tack it at home w/ my mig machine and bring it to school and tig it to make it look nice here haha. SCORE!

[AlarmedBread]

Nice work, good luck with it!

[E30_pilot]

i do like turbos...

[So Live]

Dude i hear that. I bought my car for $2400 and it was 100% stock. Look at it now.

So turns out one of my Mechanical Engineering labs is a skills workshop where we have to get accustomed to the machines in our shop. Hehehe. Nice tig welder and milling machines and band saws. its what my garage wished it could be. I have to spend atleast and hour a week there and my instructor said hed teach me how to tig, Maybe ill build my exhaust and a nice manifold here :)

IM really fucking tempted to build a MS1v3.0 board from scratch and ditch the shitt second hand v2.2 its $165 from DIY with no case or processor. Sounds like i might be building a new one once i get my own multi meter. I have to check a few serial communications parts and see.

Exhaust parts are on their way!!!! too bad MS sucks or id be ready for boost!

[MasukBMW]

good shit bro honestly thats impressive
next time your home you should come run by my garage and take alook at my project. its NOTHING like this, but we all have to start somewhere.
excellent work tho

[So Live]

Hi, looking for around 300whp on 10psi and then upping the boost to around 15 (maybe more) once i feel confident enough tuning and i want to put a head gasket and studs in.

The Garrett is already sold. Sorry!

[e30325ic]

How much HP do you plan on making? I am looking into building a 2.8 turbo set and shooting for about 375-400hp. How much do you want for the Garret t3?

[So Live]

Thanks guys!

Yeah, i did fit it actually. Fits perfect. the 2.75 core is perfect with almost no cutting to the valence. Ill get pics when i have a slim fan inbetween the rad and the ic. Im also waiting on some new bumper shocks though. i have about 3" clearance for the fan so itll fit nicely.

[Black Power]

cool man! did you fit up the bumper yet?

[e30325ic]

Damn Looks like you read my mind. I am planning a m52 build with turbo and was planning on the same exhaust build. Keep us informed because I wasn't sure what engine control I was going to use.