Turbo BS Thread

Tucked in there nicely

 

Some of both. Hoping for 400/400 at the flywheel but 350~ is fine. There’s folks pushing 5-600 on stock trans back as a daily. If it works out right it’ll be seeing some WTX summers which is often 110*+. Plus any idle time in those temps will heat soak rather quickly. Contemplating an additional fan or possibly reroute the headlight sprayer feed to an aux pump to spritz the IC.

Still sitting on my Treadstone 3rz manifold and scouring the webz for a local ‘mechanic’s special’. Wanting 2wd regular cab 2rz manual trans and preferably coil pack era.

 

I foresee this being my truck in a year or two with autocross...

 

Lol!

 

@TSSFiveSpeed

 

So I watched the first 10 minutes of a video of a guy installing an "air cooled" turbo on his trans am... No oil lines, just a grease fitting. Any thoughts on this? Be a heck of a space saver/not having to figure out how to run supply and return lines or drill and weld.

 

They're made by a company called Comp Turbo. Jetski guys love em

 

If it were me, I'd rather not add another thing to the list of stuff to grease/maintain like that. Makes more sense for a jet ski though since those see a lot less hours than a car motor.

What's the grease interval supposed to be?

 

8 pumps of grease every 3k mi and rebuild every 50k. But apparently it's easily rebuildable on site with regular hand tools.

 

Started the truck on the Haltech and with the exhaust side of the turbo all done. Not gonna do more than that until I can get chargepipes on it.

https://youtu.be/g6XnrGQa0Bg

 

Very nice!

 

Woot woot!!!

 

It might sound like a dumb question but how are people getting the AeroCatch latches to fit on the hood. The hood is rounded where It should go and the latch body is flat.



Just slap some rtv on to fill the gap or does it just distort the hood when you sinch it down (nobody wants a bent out of shape hood)

 

Add a bracket under the hood to push the hood latch back. Core support to the fender support.

 

Or do the hood button push to release style one. I just have the racing autofab ones, but they are a bit on the ugly side.

 

Could you cut a "gasket" that would just take you that space?

 

They conform decently. For that reason, I angled mine to have the least amount of deformation.

 

Those are in the center line of the curve. For reference.

Look what fits and works best for your mounting.

 

There you go. Turn it 90*