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Posted by: airsix Sep 11 2004, 01:40 AM

Here's what the elves have been up to tonight. I look at the picture and think "Well that doesn't look like it was too much work." Well maybe not for a lot of folks, but it was for this guy. After about 3 weeks of chin scratching I decided on my plan of attack. Last Saturday I made the flanges and shopped for all the hardware. Tonight I did the rest. The intake side of the turbo peeks though a hole I punched in the rear cooling tin. I wanted to keep the exhaust side completely out of the engine bay. Tomorrow I'll finish it up and let you know how it runs. Not expecting earth-shaking performance - the math says 20-28hp if I did everything right. That'll put me between 100-108 hp. Don't sound like much, but that's as much as a 35% increase over the current anemic 80 hp.

-Ben M. (exhausted and going to bed with visions of compressor maps stuck in my head)

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Posted by: airsix Sep 11 2004, 01:41 AM

flange #2

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Posted by: airsix Sep 11 2004, 01:41 AM

flange #2 and reducer

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Posted by: airsix Sep 11 2004, 01:42 AM

ta-da! Good night.

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Posted by: Mueller Sep 11 2004, 01:46 AM

........you beat me to it !!!!!!

looks like a good job, I cannot wait to read about the results next week when I get home....time to hit the sack, I've got a plane to catch in about 7 hours or so

Posted by: airsix Sep 11 2004, 01:53 AM

QUOTE(Mueller @ Sep 10 2004, 11:46 PM)

........you beat me to it !!!!!!

looks like a good job, I cannot wait to read about the results next week when I get home....time to hit the sack, I've got a plane to catch in about 7 hours or so

Have a good trip. I hope it's a real vacation this time and not just more work on the other house. See you in a week (well, I mean see you here that is). Have some fun.

-Ben

Posted by: maf914 Sep 11 2004, 06:45 AM

Nice work! I think fabricating pieces like that is very impressive.

What do you intend to use for the rest of the induction system?

Posted by: fiid Sep 11 2004, 09:27 AM

Dude - awesome job. That looks great. Keep us posted on the results.

Fiid.

Posted by: Brando Sep 11 2004, 12:25 PM

ooooooh it's beautiful... excellent machinework!

Posted by: red914 Sep 11 2004, 12:48 PM

wow, very impressive. i can't wait to see more, and hear abou the results. do you plan to cruise over to this side of the state ever?

Posted by: airsix Sep 11 2004, 06:09 PM

Pretty good Saturday. Got the induction plumbing built. Everything is installed and ready to fire-up except for vacuum sourse for the BO valve (need a 'T'), hose clamps on a few vacuum lines (soon to be pressure lines), and a 10mmx1.25 nut for one of the turbo-flange studs (I know I bought enough - but one went missing).

Have to stop for the day (almost got done today) and clean up to go to a dinner appointment. More updates as they become available....

-Ben M.

Posted by: airsix Sep 11 2004, 10:25 PM

QUOTE(maf914 @ Sep 11 2004, 04:45 AM)

Nice work!

I think fabricating pieces like that is very impressive.

Thanks, but don't give me too much credit. I forgot to mention that I used a Burch exhaust as the base. I just did what's between the collector to the muffler.

-Ben M.

Posted by: rick 918-S Sep 11 2004, 11:02 PM

More please...