Re: BMW 2002 Homemade Turbo Build Thread
 

damn, so far this is the most deserving write-up for the write-up contest. i hope it finishes as well as it started

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What's your location?

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20 mins north of seattle.

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Are you available next week, tuesday or wednesday afternoon?

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Thats whom I was going to have you hook up with anyways!

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sweet project man, been thinkin of picking one of these up myself to do the same thing!

cant wait to see it rolling. what kinda power you shooting for?

Re: BMW 2002 Homemade Turbo Build Thread
 

Whatever 21psi with water sprayers on the IC will give me. I'll take it to a dyno day shortly after the tuning is done.

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Available anytime basically, not working right now.

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Great - you should PM me your number (with your name lol so I don't sound dumb when I call or text ya).

Contributing to post:

Did more flange and manifold work today.

Master welder at work.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2339/s6302303te3.jpg

I cut the original manifold for the flange, will bore the diameter out though.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3499/s6302306zm4.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/7237/s6302312ov1.jpg

Then got to work on the wastegate blockoff valve and 3" DP flange. This was just simple cutting and welding of existing exhaust and turbo manifold pieces I already had.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2686/s6302314ar7.jpg

Then I cut aluminum pipe at a 7.5 degree angle for the runners, the top is flat but will be angled later for welding to the plenum.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4811/s6302315vb6.jpg
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4285/s6302316nq7.jpg

I ditched the ITB idea as it would be too time consuming, individual runners will do fine. Tomorrow I'll finish up cutting the runners to the correct angles and then prep everything for TIG welding - at which point the intake mani will be done, with the exception of fuel injector bungs (still waiting on those to arrive) and vacuum nipples.

Re: BMW 2002 Homemade Turbo Build Thread
 

throttles are more of a pain than they are worth unless you really have a built up NA motor that is getting restricted by the intake. did em on my rabbit w/ a 16v an they were fun, but it took way more effort than normal to get the car tuned to run well