Progress Thread Tanner's "there's Probably A Name For This Illness" Builds Thread

A5literMan said:

That intake is sic!

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I don't hate it as much as I thought. It's not mine, just borrowed it to test fit. Normally I'd be a little worried about it. Partially because of the operating range being so high and partially because that style intake has some air distribution issues on the far runners but the Holley allows individual cylinder fueling so it wouldn't be as big a deal.
This combo is so far from max effort anyways and it's geared too high on top of that. I'm hoping it suprised me.
We'll see how my expansion tank relocation goes, hopefully I'll be able to keep the 92 fast.

old_blue said:

Is that expansion tank needed now that the cobra motor isn't in there? Maybe have it chopped down a few inches and welded into a smaller box? I am super excited to see this thing running.

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Yeah it's needed, it's the only fill location for the radiator and is the middle man for a lot of the hose routing. I bought a canton tank and a filler section to kind of rearrange the cooling system. Hopefully it'll work as I really really want to keep the cobra radiator and fans

Sold the FAST. Also made a purchase to solidify my reputation on this website for repeated project changes

hoopty5.0 said:

You make me feel better about myself in a lot of ways.

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Going single turbo. Bought the hotside last night as well as the turbo.
Boost was absolutely my plan from the beginning, it was just getting myself to sack up and go ahead with it. Should be pretty cool. Definitely foreign territory for me though.

hoopty5.0 said:

What efi system if you sold the fast?

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Holley efi still. Sold the fast intake, will switch to something less plastic and prone to exploding

Giggity

really pleased with the quality of the manifolds


It's tight but the turbo actually clears everything fine. That's the condenser in the picture, which won't be there obviously.
Going to delete the ABS block to make some room, maybe be able to fit the big DP that way.


Will be running a pair of these Precision 46s


Not bad for a test fit

old_blue said:

Is that alternator going to have a hard life there?

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Will be wrapped

Got ripped off majorly on what was supposed to be a good running 06 5.3. Ended up being a blown up 02. Been pretty sore about it since last weekend.


Made an extra long journey today to pick up a super super clean 2008 high compression 5.3. It's got all the DoD/VVT stuff I'll have to delete but otherwise I'm really pleased with it.