my recent project...enjoy
 

well fuckers its been a while since i wason here and posted. i actualy got married this past year and got a really great job at a incredibly busy shop. been workingg on buying a house and hopefully having a little me running around soon,.
but my project...
i acquired a gm8 brand new for 50 bux from my job and decided my wrangler that i bought for $1 could use a little turbo love. for the tank it is, it moves pretty damn good to about 3k where i let off cause the wastegate i have is 18psi :-X/. if any one has a internal gate thats about 7-8 psi let me know. i need.

this is what i started with....i got 10 3.5" bends for 60 bux on ebay, and to combo bends.
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first i figured out where i wanted the turbo to go...
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then i relocated my battery to the trunk. i acutally un bolted the existing tray and used sheet metal screws to secure it in the trunk, and used the original hold down. i got some 4 gauge wire from napa and some terminal ends, and there ya go.
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i then relocated the fuse box to where the battery used to be...
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i started the downpipe fab..
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and then i forgot to take pics so heres the finished product...
up pipe using most of the stock front pipe..
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where it meets the turbo..i had to extend and reroute the alternator cable. had some spare 4gauge
from the battery
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the downpipe
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before this where the cat was is a 3" in and out muffler then flared to a 3.5" exhaust. it fit freaking perfect!
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brackets holding the turbo..
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oil lines...i had two sections of ss braided brake lines from my s4 and the worked perfect off the t and
at the turbo. the piece in the middle is 3/16 brake line. the T is from homedepot and is 1/8 pipe thread
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fuel pump and fmu. i had the pump neatly mounted on the fire wall but i made so much damn noise i clamped it to the fuel rail. i made up a relay for it using the existing fuel pump wires. its prefect.you can see the relay in the fuse box pic
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finished deal...
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a random weld from my ford 8.8 install. my spicer 35 ---- the bed and i heard this was do able. got it for 200 bux at a yard. rebuilt it with all new bearings and seals and welded on a bracket it. thing is very ncie
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thanks for looking

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Holy ----, look what the cat dragged in! Im turboing my Jeep Cherokee right now too. You should join the offroad club I belong to. www.SISoffroad.com There is a lot of Fairfield guys in it. Conrats on getting married. Build looks great. I was going to use an FMU and a pump but I did 36lbs injectors and an AFC.

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haha no ----. what turbo you using? the pump and fmu work great i just need to get a smaller wastegate. i acutally am getting 20-30 more mpg turboed than not. how does it run with the afc? post some pics dood. i went out last weekend with it and its amazing how many kids are interested in a turbo jeep.

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All my parts are sitting in a box. Im starting it shortly. Im running a ching chong .48/.60 T3/T04E.

I like the DP welded to the exhaust housing. That is classic!

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i didnt want to use an external wastegate so i cut the elbow off the housing and made that ganster ----.. its perfect. i consider that part of the downpipe a part of the turbo. cause its a pain to get off. lol

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holy ---- look who it is. looks good jordan, we should all have a reunion meet one of these days. (yea right)

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Great setup, I like the way the turbo is mounted!

But, don't you think the engine movement will act badly on the turbo or the charge pipe?

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Why would it? It would all move with the engine. The only thing that wouldn't is the DP.

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The turbo looks fixed to the body, but maybe its not...

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I see that fender mount now. I saw the A/C bracket at first.