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3800 v6 Home Made Turbo Project!!!!

Old Feb 2, 2007 | 08:18 AM
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Is it saturday down there yet?

Post some **** too while your at it.
Old Feb 3, 2007 | 08:48 AM
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lol dude saturday was yesterday, its 1:28 AM here sunday morning i cant be bothered sleeping and i dont have enough light to work on the turbo

well manifolds completed, installed intercooler piping today / tonight and welded up sump, fitting manifolds tommorrow and then she'll get her first taste of boost

ive really gotta modify my inlet manifold to come out on the drivers side so that it can avoid the turbo heat, ill be making a 2-3mm thick aluminium heat shield and wrapping the dump pipe in heat wrap to so i get a bit more performance

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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:12 AM
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progresss,

manifolds bolted up perfect, having issues undo the piping bolts (rusted) to the cat converter ill fix it tommorrow..

ummmm yeah ill finish it tommorrow
Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:20 AM
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Badass...
I always liked Holden cars, Commies are the ----.
Old Feb 4, 2007 | 05:19 AM
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where abouts are you from

yeah ill have it running tommorrow then yes as promised ill take a video of it
Old Feb 4, 2007 | 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by blackice90hb
Badass...
I always liked Holden cars, Commies are the ----.

Same here. That would've given us a slew of RWD cars that actually look nice. It's a shame.



Old Feb 4, 2007 | 04:34 PM
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hahaha :P rwd is fun!

progress guys, just pushed the car back into the garage...
all i gotta do is remove the old Y peice and bolt on dump pipe, turbo and new peice that joins the headers and connect cooler piping and she'll be done.. but easier said than done might be done by mid day
Old Feb 5, 2007 | 01:30 AM
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ok so here it is, i promised a video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae1wjfDXIqE

the oil pressure sender t peice wasnt done up proerply, all fixed now... still running the turbo off 3 cyclinders as i havnt got the y peice off yet... but all oil lines are fixed up.. not long now might have her going by tommorrow
Old Feb 6, 2007 | 07:10 PM
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Default she wont spool :(

hey, just finishing my turbo install, she revs fine in netural and nearly spools but dosnt, now my dump pipe dosnt have the most clearance from the firewall (gonna rip it off today and make ajustments)

the car shakes like hell but i think thats because of the dump pipe
i think the coil pack grounding may be screwed with...

im gonna rip off the dump pipe and see if it drives and fix up the coil pack grounding, need to modify my dump pipe today anyway

any suggestions

Old Feb 6, 2007 | 07:16 PM
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Most turbos will not spool in neutral unless you are able to keep the throttle pegged and bouncing off your revlimiter. :P
Check to see if it builds boost under load.

Do you have any pictures of your install?


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