Winter Upgrades

[somethingclever]

Lookin good!!

[Martin0660]

You'll probably be quicker with 140ci than I'll be with 461ci.

LOL, we will see ;) As long as neither of us move up to mod, it's going to be a wash at 12.00 :D Sandbagger showdown.

Looks great Bob, are you changing injectors and doing the mass air swap for this combo

Car already has 55#'s in it, this turbo will out flow them although I do plan to start out there. I don't want to chase tuning 75# injectors while sorting everything else. Mass air is mandatory, and will be worked out as part of the new combo ;)

Turbos just aren't that consistent.

Agreed, although mine being a stick is better. The Buick stuff you had to deal with converter flash as well. Mine leaves off the limiter on a clutch drop, so it's better there. Between the 4 cylinder, stick, and turbo, dialing to the tenth is enough of a challenge although the old combo would run within .04 worst case any given day and most of that was 60'. This should be better, we will see ;)

[yeahloh95]

yeah let me know about the waste gate bob i don't have one yet,

[sutyak]

Great looking turbo!

[Martin0660]

Header is wrapped and coated. Probably cost me a few points at the show and shine, but I've got enough scars from working on hot turbo's ;)





And my help. He isnt very good with a wrench, but he doesnt bitch about the work, and is good company :D

[lib88stang]

header wrap looks good bob

[yeahloh95]

yeah that looks great ,nice job

[MBH]

that's gonna be sick!

[yeahloh95]

Did You Paint It After Wraping? Or Is The Wrap That Color?

[biminiLX]

Also would like to hear your review on the wrap Bob, I plan on doing my headers in that black.
-J

[Martin0660]

I bought the black wrap (DEI). the wrap itself is relatively easy to work with if you take your time and work the details to get it tight and right. For the four runners and the collector, I spent maybe an hour and a half fiddling with it to make it the way I wanted. The biggest time for me was in the middle at the collector where the tubes come together, the tubes are really easy. After wrapping it, it is coated with the DEI black "silcone" wrap spray. I swear to you it is nothing more than high temp black paint, but we will see. The spray is supposed to help hold it in place, make it more waterproof, and resist rot. We will see long term. I expect the header to crack long before the wrap is an issue ;) 1600 F EGT's tend to do that :D

[biminiLX]

Thanks Bob, that was the kit I was planning to use.
-J

[yeahloh95]

i think i am going to try swain tech on mine, then wrap it .

[Martin0660]

i think i am going to try swain tech on mine, then wrap it .

I'm not sure I would put that much into one of these headers. It's not "if" it will crack, but when ;)

[Martin0660]

New gate came UPS today :D




Shouldnt be a lot of restriction to flow here :D



Even the gate puck is pretty well open ;)



Still waiting on the rest of the V-Band parts to build the downpipe, and a big old box of AN stuff for the oil return and feed lines.

[yeahloh95]

wow thats awsome , that should flow a little better than the stock elbow

[biminiLX]

i think i am going to try swain tech on mine, then wrap it .

That Swain tech stuff is supposed to be the sh1t. I'm going to do my DP with it. I'd wait to wrap it to see if your good w/o it. It will come back white but you can paint any high temp over it.
Only going to DEI wrap the headers and crossover because I have a nice high temp black coating thats holding up nice and want the wrap for the heat protection.
And lookin' good Bob.
-J

[John4cam]

I wanna see this car run this year..

[Martin0660]

Thanks guys!

Looking at those last pictures, it looks like the WGA rod is on some funky angle. Kind of weird because it's not.



Still lots of work to be done, but I'm happy with this stuff so far ;)

[Martin0660]

Have been out of town for a while here, lots of parts came, but nothing 100% (damn backorders ;) ). I did get the rest of the V-Band parts, all the bits to build the downpipe, plus most of the oil line stuff. I need to get the return line done, and of course what I'm missing is for that

Anyway, couple pics of the V-Band assembly to start the downpipe.





This stuff is sweet! Basically loosen the clamp and I can drop the exhaust. I'm thinking about using some of these for intercooler piping too. They arent cheap, but should never fail / leak / blow out, and not that bad if you look at the price of a coupler and two t-bolt clamps versus one set of flanges and clamp.

Hopefully more parts come this week :D