Project Turbo LS1 by ColtGT4g63

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Well, last night I got my pan pulled off. Brought it into work today and drilled me a nice big hole. Brought it over to a friends house who could weld me a bung on it after work, came home and installed the damn thing! pics!








And for the pics you've all been waiting for! Its not bolted down or anything, nor is the manifold done, but this is where the turbo will be sitting for the most part.








Enjoy!

12/10/2008

Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to get my V band pieces in time before this week end either so I may not be able to start the down pipe until next weekend. Hummm.... Tonight I got my upper intercooler pipe all finished up. Got both Blow off Valve flanges welded onto it. As well as finished welding the fittings for the oil lines. My goal is to just start the car up this weekend with open turbine housing. Should be fun! I wanna make the Neighbors think that a jet is taking off on our street.  

12/11/2008

So Heres a few pics I snapped of some of the progress I've made during the week. I'm getting pretty anxious for the week end to arrive!!!




Harbor Freight tig welder at its best!













The Vband parts are all mild steel, I picked it all up from siliconintakes.com, Which is also the same place that I picked up the stainless bends to make the cross over pipes on the manifold. They've got quite a bit of DIY stuff, as well as others things too, and they're pricing is pretty decent. I picked up the BOV flanges from a shop I use to work at called RoadRaceEngineering, they've got a whole bunch of DIY parts as well.

You can get those blow off Valves off of any 90 - 94 mitsu eclipse, Eagle Talon, or plymouth laser turbo. I already had one in the garage from my old car, and picked up another for 30$. Much cheaper then going for a single bigger one.

12/13/2008

This rain is freakin killin me! But I squeezed in a little fabrication time last night while I could. I pretty much finished the manifold entirely, with the exception of the external wastegate. And I didn't get my final Vband pieces so I won't be able to make the down pipe this weekend either. Once the rain lets up I can finish up the both intercooler pipes. Wire in my pusher fan. And try to wrap up any other misc. pieces that need attention before I fire it up!

Heres a few pics of the cross over section of the manifold all finished up.

12/17/2008

So after work today, I decided that working on cars for 9 hours wasn't enough. So I pulled out the 'ol chop saw and fired up the welder. I got all my intercooler pipes painted, and finished up my down pipe. All I've pretty much got left to do is get the external wastegate welded on the manifold, and reinstall everything. Run a few vacuum lines then its time to fire this baby up!!! This weekend for sure... Heres some pics of the goods.







Sorry! No pics of the down pipe installed on the car.  I'll save those pics for later so the dying minds can sweat it out a little more. Haha