Backyard build
 

I'll make a proper intro later when I'm good and drunk, but browsing through the recent build-ups and seeing nothing but people decking their cars out in egay ---- prancing around like they've done something is making me pissed off. Here's my build that I did while lurking this site for the past few years without making a single post, there was no need to...the search button worked just fine.

Quick rundown: OBD1 swapped EF, Z6, Si cable tranny, dsm 450's, and a bunch of random ---- thrown together


30lb chunk of 1/2" steel picked up at the local scrapper for $10, strapped down and ready to be made into flanges
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Chipping the ecu for crome...

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trusty solder sucker
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crude ass HF adapter and 14b outlet flanges cut out
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test fitting

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one size fits all downpipe kit, some work required
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thank you HMT for first showing me pie-cut bends and the power of flux core
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---- your pre-made gaskets too
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made the oil return fitting too
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bov mounting the old fashioned way

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14point7.com JAW being put together for the sikkkk tuning later on
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one of the runs to the parts store after I had some thermal issues...
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and finally, the money shot
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and the hooptie this is all going into (it came with the color, ford blue tractor paint if you were wondering...---- your JDM too)
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unfortunately the Z6 spun a bearing 2 days after the build was completed, so an engine swap was in order.


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the engine stand ^:8


that was alot of typing, now I need beer

I love this thread.

OMG...

damn,.. that some real made ----. im suprised you didnt design a new blowoff :P anyways nice build, did you ever run it on a track? if yes what were your times?

Do what you have to do! Better than alot of other people.

At least your doing it rather than waiting for someone to so it for you.

Like alot of guys that I know around here.

No, it put down about 140ish whp and 140tq on a problematic mustang dyno. Got walked on by a 240 with a red-top SR swap and stays dead even with an 04 Accord V6 coupe (had an intake).

ahh i thought it would of had more power than that :( what size of turbo do you have on there?

My experience with that dyno tells me that it would have put down around 160-170 anywhere else, but its a 14b running off of the stock wastegate (7psi)

ahh ok good to know cuz im building a JDM D15b with a t3t4 at 8psi so i guess im looking at around that...

thats some jenky ass ---- but nice

That solder sucker made my day. I have a shop vac in my living room and I've been trying to think of things I can use it for other than vacuuming. ---- vacuuming, hooray beer.

Looking at the home made gasket reminds me, one thing I don't see many people doing here is the axle grease turbo gasket trick. If you have fairly flat flanges, a thin layer of thick axle grease on the flanges will cook and turn into a good seal.

damn!!

some handy ass ----! :D

what did you use to make the gaskets?

Yikes....HMT to da max.

damn you have a lot of time on your hands

2 days :(

haha very nice im impressed... what did you use to cut those flanges it looks like you went with the old oxy/assedeline haha

Looking at the home made gasket reminds me, one thing I don't see many people doing here is the axle grease turbo gasket trick. If you have fairly flat flanges, a thin layer of thick axle grease on the flanges will cook and turn into a good seal.[/QUOTE]

what axle grease would work for that like strait farm equipment grease or would ford/chevy work? i'd try this for sure

well done. This is what HMT is all about. Each pic having a "and ---- your......" made my day. Now go ---- yourself :)

nice. and i love the color of the hatch

lol welding while drunk makes for good pics.

That's The Sh!t I'm talking about! Bring this site back to what it was, and ---- That ebay ----. Just like u I,ve spent years finding out questions by searching and hadly ever posted. Show the noobs how its done.

Thats hmt style rite there. nice.

nice job, ghetto ftw!!!

Nice TP set up.

good

did you suspend your engine from the ladder or am I seeing wrong

Hell yea! post some ripper vids when your back on the road!

ROLF So many of those things just look so familiar... keep up the work man!

WOW those are some beautiful welds...

Think thats what he went for. Its graet.

Have you lost your mind? You NEVER use birch for this type of pull!

Herculian effort though man, you are the Picasso of fabrication for sure.

I absolutely love this forum, I'm not into building home made turbos, but the creativity is awesome! Nice!

---- a grinder. Chickenshit ftw.

holy ghetto.Im loving this

true homemade:)

WTF?!?!?!?!?! SHEETMETAL FLANGE for the oil drain?!?!?!?!?!

How does that seal? (It doesn't i'm sure)
You can't even get a bolt down tight cuz the weld is so close to the hole for the bolt.

hahahaha... i remember the days when i couldn't spend 10$ for a flange...

You spend 10$ for the scrap metal, 1$ for the hardware, and $1.50 for the box of cereal you bought for the cardboard gasket....

For my turbo flanges, I spend 12$ on an Ebay flange with shipping and saved hours of cutting, eating cereal, and looking through drawers to find the right bolts...

SOOoooo, you may be more creative, but i'm smarter than you! ]:-> Now i have more time to drink beer and watch you play with your dremel cutting cardboard. Heh Heh Heh

But congrats you got her done...
OH, AND BY THE WAY?!?!?! WHAT THE ---- ARE YOU COVERING UP YOUR POPCORN WELDS WITH HEAT WRAP FOR?!?!?!?!?!?!? take that ------- wrap off, and rock out with your popcorn out!

Those welds look like my ----!


Anyways....true HMT at it's finest. I give you props on hoisting the engine out using a tree. Good thinking especially in the backyard.

The outlet flange gasket is cork, what's being cut with the dremel is FelPro Pro Ramic.

luv the flux core wleding