TurboGuy

Sorry guys, my turbo headder has tig welds and is polished stainless, I'm an outcast One of these days, I'll get pics, been busy, its dark when I leave for work, then dark when I get home, weekends are usually spent cutting and splitting firewood. Trying to save some money heating the joint. I need to move back to the space coast in FL.

TurboGuy

Site I came across for Flanges and things. Maybe you can find it as useful as I did.

http://www.reidwashbonracing.com/

TTC

Weir sold me my 4age flanges, hes on here in vendors.

TurboGuy

I'm using them for some special v-bands for my powerstroke turbo. not too cheap, but high quality

liam75

Ahh theres the man who suggested i come here, TTC himself. Whats this **** you speak of. You mean like man on man? Dont forget i have giant pink decals and rims on my car so im on team sausage. Ohh and dont even mention this on DK, everyone there is so ------ negative all id have is people saying im an idiot. Ill post pictures when im done and it works so no one can say ---- haha.
Anyway I was told by 2 other people who used this turbo that they would give me money and or beer if it lasted more then 2000km so i dont expect much. As for cutting the hood im still thinking about it, but since the distributor and brake master are 2 things that are not movable i had to have the turbo sit higher up. If anything i want to move the turbo forward since the down pipe is now going to be tricky.

Thanks for the link Hitchhikkr, im going to read it in full when i have more time.

As for fancy exhaust and flanges its an awesome site, but WAY out of my league. Its not that i dont like doing a nice job, but i have access to a full shop and prefer to do everything myself since im a ------ cheap ***.

And thanks to everyone else who didnt shut me down, appreciate it.

Here are some pictures of the manifold and turbo bolted to the block. You can see how little room there is to work with, ive seen worse, but its still a pain in the ***. The intake side of the turbo points right at the end of the master cylinder, so im going to move the lines and drill the spot welds on the old power steering bracket, should give me enough room. As for the wastegate mounting im going to try and get that done tomorrow. I cant even explain my idea really, but its going to sit under the distributor.

I was lucky enough that the AFM harness was long enough once i pulled it apart that it reaches no problem.

TTC

If you use megasquirt, you can ditch the AFM .

Gold DA9

I would rotate housing so that it aims down. Easy for the charge pipes.

TurboGuy

The old 16V, I miss the poor distributor placement for a turbo setup. The headder I have I assume was made for a 16V, the pipes are moved away from where the distributor was.

liam75

Im too cheap to get megasquirt, im going to TRY key word here and use stock everything and run 4lbs. I honestly think its going to work, but hey what the hell do i know. The way i look at it is i cant run more then 6lbs of boost even if i had a standalone. Ill blow the head off since a rough guess of compression ratio is at least 10.5:1 with stock internals. If it doesnt work it looks like ill have to do everything properly.
As for rotating the housing thats a brilliant idea. I was thinking of moving the center section so the oil line was pointing a little less vertical, but i never though of moving the intake. I think you may have just solved my intake pipe clearance issue. Thanks for the advice.
One day when i get my ---- straight i will probably be using a coil on plug setup or the waste spark system from the 5sfe? Anyway for now everything seems to be clearing everything and hopefully i wont melt the distributor cap off or my master cylinder. I am going to get heat shields for both. Im not THAT cheap.

SDRAWKCAB

I hate to say it but you could always run FMU
and even viginas run 6 psi.
I want your car