My turbostang is ALLLIIIIVVEEE!!!

[94Blue302GT]

Ok, I started it last month, and forgot to retighten all the bolts, tore it apart, and put it back together. Now, i ran the oil through it, then hooked up the turbo again, and ran it again. WOW, it's just sounds AWESOME!!! I can't WAIT to put the body back altogether and run it around the block. Although, with no ins. my neighbor single female cop might write me up or something.
Let me tell you though, that turbo sounds AWESOME!!!!

I gotta do the remainder of the exhaust turbo back, I have a vaccuum leak in all the hoses i have going all over the place, and i have an intercooler pipe just barely rubbing up against the crossover pipe, which is double wrapped in heatwrap at the moment. I also have to figure out my radiator. It didn't come with a cap, and it doesn't let any extra fluid out, so it just builds pressure, which is NOT cool. Last time when the head lifted slightly due to the untightened bolts, it had a LOT of pressure in there, which was NOT cool.

My boost gauge only read up to 0psi/vaccuum, but I don't exactly have a load on it sitting in the garage, but still, isn't 0 quite efficient, if i recall?

The best part of all is definatly the turbo sound. I was about to piss my pants at it, it's great!!!

Thanks for answereing all the q's i had the past couple of years, i'm sure there's plenty more to come!!!
Lee Colvin
P60-1hifi

 

[nmcgrawj]

Thats awesome man! Get some vids/pics up!
My turbo knowledge isnt that great so i wish i could help ya with that other stuff. Im sure others will chime in.

 

[Killercanary]

SWEET! I want to see pics and videos as soon as you have them!!!

 

[94Blue302GT]

OK, Pic 1 is the day after I totalled it.
Pic 2 is what I all cut out and disassembled.

I"ll go take a picture of the finished product, well, motorwise, and post it up in a bit (lunchtime). I can't get video too soon, but i'll for sure have it when i pull it out of the garage. I have to custom fab the exhaust, get the front end painted, install the 3.73's (street fun gears), 255lph pump, subframes.

It's my gettaway car for my wedding on april 29th, so I gotta hurry!

 

[blk9450]

dont put in 3.73's they are too much for a turbo car, you will be shifting like crazy, im in the process of going back to stock gears. the vac line to the bov may be off which will make it read 0 on boost till its hooked up so it can see pressure and keep it closed.

 

[YEAHLOH95]

need more pics

 

[OrangeMustangGt]

yeah, i agree, 3:73's are too much, maby 3:27's would be better? My car has the same amount of pull in 2nd and 3rd than 1st because 1st is soo short, it can put enough load on the engine.

Also, GREAT turbo build, its great to have another turbo stang on the site! And, 0psi is just what it would normally read at fullthrottle even with no turbos, your not building boost yet, because it needs 1.5 tons of car to give the engine some load!

Also, remember, for the getaway car, turbo mustangs generally dont run, so you could have problems.

 

[94Blue302GT]

Ok ok, here's the pics...
Oh, and I have the 3.27's in my other wrecked stang, but it'll be awhile before i pull them out. 3.73's is still too much on the street even eh?

As for the boost gauge, it goes up to 0, which is normal, i just don't have that 1.5 tons, like ya said. I'm pulling it out of the garage this week, just go up and down the street a couple time. I learned last time that i HAVE to retighten the bolts on the heads once it's warmed up, i had to tear it all down last time.

OH, and check out my custom intake! Thanks to my future father in law!!! Oh, and thanks to stangnet, turbomustangs.com, and B&G Turbo.

 

[bill302]

auesome when you get it on the road come by and pick me up. lol. congratulations.

 

[SMOKEDYA]

Why did you have to put the cold air intake and other stuff on the other side of the intake? peace





john

 

[94GTLaserRC]

Nice work...Give your neighbor single female cop what she needs.
RC

 

[Killercanary]

Just a thought... beware that your intake may very well have mismatched flow to different runners causing some to run lean and others to run rich. If it was my car, I would either take the intake off and have every port flowbenched, or at a minimum once you get a tune on the car and the AF looks like it is in check, run it at WOT and immediately shut it down, then pull each plug and inspect them to see if you have any lean cylinders... I'm betting you will. In an NA setup this might not be a huge problem, but with a boosted car this could cause some major issues depending on how the flow is effected by the placement of the inlet.

 

[OrangeMustangGt]

yeah i was about to say the same thing. What you have done is a BAD idea, instead, buy an intake that you can switch around......if you go lean on some cyl's, you will be mad.....very mad

 

[blk9450]

that intake is not gonna work correctly.
you know that you can just flip the intake right?
is that jb weld?/

 

[SeventyMach1]

you know that you can just flip the intake right?

You beat me to it. Same holds true for any intake in the GT40 family, right?

 

[blk9450]

You beat me to it. Same holds true for any intake in the GT40 family, right?

true dat.

 

[Dan95-5.0]

You beat me to it. Same holds true for any intake in the GT40 family, right?

same with my typhoon, so edelbrock too

 

[94Blue302GT]

LOL, i thought you guys would like that. Well, i'm a cheap a$$, big time. I could flip it, cept it's a SN95 intake. So, i cut and welded. On the inside, right where the intake bend comes in, it has a splitter so either side gets even flow. No, not the best scenario, I know, but It didn't cost me anything to do it.... so far. I'd like to buy a typhoon or something and flip it, but I'm worried about the clearance for right now. This setup will get me on the street, and from there I will do what i can as money prevails. I believe I will only be running up to 6psi for right now, so i shouldn't have a big problem with it.

Anyways, I have to rerun some of my intake piping... A rubber boot was too close to the exhaust, and it melted!!! I'm thinking of taking some exhaust pipe and bending it really sharply so i have an inch and a half at the closest spot. The exhaust is all wrapped, and on the driver's side it's double wrapped. If i do the exhaust pipe, i'll probably wrap that as well, even though it'son the intake side. Any other ideas?

Oh, and if you guys wanna throw an intake my way, feel free!!!
It's not JB Weld by the way, a TON of MIG welding and grinding. Went through almost a whole roll.

 

[RIO5.0]

Necessity is the mother of invention...gotta give you that much.....Keep plugging at it...
Doing the plug chop as Paul mentioned sounds good...its the only way to really see what each plugs doing or getting for that matter...It'll kinda prove your fab and port work...

 

[94Blue302GT]

Well, i've definatly invented with this car!!!
I went from a "total" to my baby in about a year. I'll definatly check the plugs. I don't have a wideband yet. Maybe i should buy the intake instead of the wideband?
Whatcha think?