Thanks Aaron!
Sterling grey GT turbo build
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1. The fans are a dual 11" set up, they are rated at like 2750 CFM and move alot of air!!Hey man, nice build so far! I've got a few questions before I start building mine:
1. what kind of radiator fan setup is that? The shroud is very minimal, do you think that you cause any cooling issues in the summer? Im in TX and that's a concern for me.
2. how is the turbo mounted? Do you have a brace for it? Can you get pictures of that?
3. what type of hotside piping is that, mild aluminized steel, or stainless?
4. where did you get the exhaust manifold flanges? Did you cut up and existing h-pipe you had?
5. is that flex section stainless steel? Is it an interlocking liner, or just a standard weaved?
6. Did you remove your front swaybar?! Say it ain't so!! LolI'm keeping mine no matter what. If I have to crush the hotside a little or use oval tubing, i'm going to do it.
This thread is getting me motivated. Keep up the good work and MORE PICS!!!
2. The turbo is mounted from a custom brace I built I'll get pictures of that later.
3. The pipes are mild steel because the whole hot side will be ceramic coated and wrapped in PTP lava wrap.
4. The flanges were purchased through Aaron at JPC
5. The flex pipe is Stainless Steel with a interlocking core.
6. The sway bar had to go there really isn't any way around it unless you run a setup like CPR's hotside.
Not a whole lot going on got gauges in and wired up, waiting on vacuum fittings and small parts, got the downpipe somewhat situated, gotta modify my radiator support some more, hot sides going to the coater hopefully this weekend, then it's just a matter of waiting on parts and time.Bump for updates and pics
Lol yeah it's pretty sweet hard to cut a 4.5" hole in a nice bumper though
Bumper exit FTMFW. If I could somehow bull-horn the twins, I would definitely be doing it haha. Kit looks good man!
Thank you I hope it works well
Sounds good. I'm managing a construction project in Hammond.
If you want a good local tuner let me know. There's 2 turbo SGM 2014's here in Cottage Grove (30mns west of you), same guy tuned both of them.
Plan on going to Rock Falls?
Im probably gonna have Casey tune it not entirely sure yet, and yeah I probably will now that I have a twin disk and a one piece DS for it.
A few Turbosmart goodies.
Dropped the hotside off to be Ceramic coated, should be done next week.
Ordered Treadstone intercooler,a DEI titanium turbo blanket, Titanium exhaust wrap for the whole hotside and downpipe, oil feed and return lines, and a bunch of small an parts
I used a vibrant vacuum manifold with o-ringed 1/8 npt push lock fittings for a cleaner install.
Dropped the hotside off to be Ceramic coated, should be done next week.
Ordered Treadstone intercooler,a DEI titanium turbo blanket, Titanium exhaust wrap for the whole hotside and downpipe, oil feed and return lines, and a bunch of small an parts
I used a vibrant vacuum manifold with o-ringed 1/8 npt push lock fittings for a cleaner install.
Got some more done on the car this weekend, got the hotside back from ceramic coating, wrapped it all and installed it, installed turbo with oil feed and return lines, installed the downpipe, wastegate and turbo blanket.
Just need a Intercooler and the cold side all fabbed up and it's ready to be tuned.
Just need a Intercooler and the cold side all fabbed up and it's ready to be tuned.
Got a Intercooler on the way, then just need to fab up the cold side and get this hotrod tuned!
Seems as if it never ends lol
Seems as if it never ends lol
Loving the progress.
Sometimes it feels like nothing is getting done lol but the end is near hopefully
Got the intercooler in place and built a mounting bracket for it as well. Also put the car outside to get the shop cleaned up.
Got the intercooler bracket painted and mounted in, and build part of the cold side, ordered the rest of the pipe and compressor outlet flange, should all be here by the end of this week.
Add some oil and coolant and load my startup tune, then start getting the tune squared away.
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Add some oil and coolant and load my startup tune, then start getting the tune squared away.
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