couldnt you ghetto-rig a turbo manifold out of this?
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couldnt you ghetto-rig a turbo manifold out of this?
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xecute®™© he he":1v3nl4b1 said:
that why I said ghetto rig... couldnt you heat/bend parts into place.. if you had a header flange... I make it sound too easy
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hasa68mustang":1q8so7jc said:
Short answer.....NO WAY
Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to usa an Offy C and fab up a J pipe from a low mounted turbo? Two flanges to drill, two, maybe three welds to run on the cold side, a mounting bracket to fab and a turbo header to construct, which is where you really need to spend the effort.
Take a look at: http://www.sdsefi.com/techheader.htm for how NOT to ghetto up your turbo.
If you want to see the ultimate example of "Billy Bob builds him a hot rod" check out: http://www.turbomustangs.com/forums/sho ... adid=43997 (and be prepared to either barf or laugh your arse off depending on how perverse your sense of humor is.)
PLEASE tell me that wing and those bling wheels are as photoshoppeed as they appear to be
Take a look at: http://www.sdsefi.com/techheader.htm for how NOT to ghetto up your turbo.
If you want to see the ultimate example of "Billy Bob builds him a hot rod" check out: http://www.turbomustangs.com/forums/sho ... adid=43997 (and be prepared to either barf or laugh your arse off depending on how perverse your sense of humor is.)
PLEASE tell me that wing and those bling wheels are as photoshoppeed as they appear to be
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StrangeRanger":1o7q2wnb said:
They are. You missed the "Fart can" muffler!
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J PIPE IT!!!!!!! Besides, when your spittin your mods to people, it sounds kool to say "Yeah, I just J piped the manifold to the turbo and ran a bracket from the head for stability" or somethin like that, lol. J pipe it for now, following the KISS method then later on down the road buy you a header and be done with it!
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StrangeRanger":3m13gx9s said:
lol yes... someone mentioned a track day for a meeting on another forum and they said its mustangs only, none from the wing and bling crowd... so I photoshopped most everything in that pic... including myself... too the picture at home where Im sitting now... notice how unproportional it is...
the one thing that scared me on making a header would be the fact that you have to get 6 tubes into one quite smaller one... I would not trust being near the guy that made the billy bobs turbo setup... too many things that could go wrong....
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hasa68mustang":1fjg6e7z said:
Go six into three, that makes it a litle easier?
Someone on the web (wish I could remember) made a log from a piece of square tube, 1-3/4" OD, I think.
I am pretty sure that is how I am going to build my next one....
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Here is the one he made, if someone recognizes it please give the credit....
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that's the work of 62Fairlane170. big ups to fairlane!!
and that actually adds hp?
yo thats mine!!
FINALLY getting it on a mill this week! I REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME!!!
my atf soaked clutch seems to have fixed itself as it is no longer slipping. so that means I can press on with the turbo. manifold should be done for good by the weekend and boost by september (got some body work to tend too first and the begining of my last semester of college)
well I made that last spring in an afternoon. as far a turbo manifold goes it will get teh job done and most importanly package the turbo next to my shock tower so there should be enough room for AC and all. also I have $20 in that manifold. all of that $20 is in the turbo flange I bought (was feeling lazy) it was a scrap tubing chunk I had, some plate I nabbed from a scrap bin at school and an afternoon with a torch and mig.
FINALLY getting it on a mill this week! I REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME!!!
my atf soaked clutch seems to have fixed itself as it is no longer slipping. so that means I can press on with the turbo. manifold should be done for good by the weekend and boost by september (got some body work to tend too first and the begining of my last semester of college)
well I made that last spring in an afternoon. as far a turbo manifold goes it will get teh job done and most importanly package the turbo next to my shock tower so there should be enough room for AC and all. also I have $20 in that manifold. all of that $20 is in the turbo flange I bought (was feeling lazy) it was a scrap tubing chunk I had, some plate I nabbed from a scrap bin at school and an afternoon with a torch and mig.
ok so it was for clearance more than a header right?
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Mega Props to you, 62fairlane170!!
Hasa68, the square tube has a whole lot more internal volume than a stock log, so flow restriction should be less.
Plus, you get the benefit of mounting the turbo 3" away from the head!! Talk about a nice, compact package.
Hasa68, the square tube has a whole lot more internal volume than a stock log, so flow restriction should be less.
Plus, you get the benefit of mounting the turbo 3" away from the head!! Talk about a nice, compact package.
yeah I can package this under the stock hood with a front mount battery (mine is already trunk though), AC AND have room for a cone filter on it. granted with all that things would be getting tight in there then but that is why I am running a trunk mount (well that and my inner fender to support the battery had rotted away)so where the battery would have been I will be running my IC tubes to the front. so mostly it was a packaging issue and a cost issue. once I get it running on this I will prob start working on a tube header with an actual collector. BTW the 3/4 port dumps directly into the turbine housing 
Are you planning on ceramic coating that thing? The heat loss through carbon steel tube is going to be fierce. Your underhood temps may go up by over 100°
Have you considered louvring the hood over the turbo?
Have you considered louvring the hood over the turbo?
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StrangeRanger":3dwi9se1 said:
I think he used 3/16" wall thickness, while not as heavy wall as a log,
is WAAAY heavier than tube headers, and about the same thickness as schedule 40 weld els.
If I ever break down and buy an aluminum SP head, I would build the turbo header from sched 40 weld els, constructed similarly to the nissan header above
no it is .120" wall tubing. but the area of it is less than that of the factory manifold. I was planning on some cheap ass header wrap on it. the underhood temps could be nice in the winter though....will be running chokless and fear trying to get it started in single digit weather.
something liek this would work well for making a turbo header I suppose... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-HEAD ... enameZWDVW
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