Ok guys its taken me a 2.5 day thrash at a friends house to get her together, i custom made my own turbo mani (its decent... not some shitty flowing log) Custom coach FMIC, 2.5" charge piping, short open downpipe 2.5" (sounds like ass but its not TOOO loud)... Garret .60 .63 T3 off of a turbo mustang, damn ill post pics if i can borrow a digicam. For management i have a SAFC and MSD Boost timing master, the safc is running the 450cc 1g dsm injectors and its working nice. So far i was taking it out and tuning it and it would take absolutely an eternity to make boost... id have to be in 3rd at about 5500 rpm to make 3-4psi boost, but once it spooled this car has one HELL of a top end pull, even at 3-4psi. Im having clutch trouble at the moment, my spec 3 puck clutch is not cooperating. First thing once i had it somewhat satisfactorily tuned is i raced my friends mini cooper supercharged S with some minor mods... cai etc and we were side by side (i had a few feet) until about 95 mph and then he started to pull away... this is while my clutch is slipping like crazy, only making the peak 4 psi at the top of 3rd.... BTW i found out why she wouldnt build boost at all until way later... the wastegate actuator rod fell off....
The hard parts of the install: making the manifold and getting it to fit, i didnt take into account how low the turbo sat so i had to notch the front beam (not badly... just beat the living fuck out of it with a hammer etc) and cut about 1/2 an inch out of the front motor mount... also the front mount intercooler was a bitch... other than that it wasnt too bad. The manifold took a long time to fab too.
Current problems:
The turbo smokes quite a bit, i have the oil feed line turned down 1/2 way or so with a ball valve but i think my oil drain is kinked... ill figure it out... oh yea and my GOD FORSAKEN CLUTCH
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