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Tosh21
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171

27-03-2022, 09:58 AM

#151

15mm thick! Ordered 12 but they said they will give me 15 for the same price as the 12 was bowed. Not complaining really, gives me plenty of meat to machine off after it's been welded so it's dead flat.

The 90 elbows. They are mega tight, ideally they should be long rad to flow nicer but being a turbo manifold it's not quite as important. Very high quality for the price!

All my exhaust materials minus the silencer which is gonna be a custom job again. The whole system after the manifold is 3" inconel starting from .9 at the downpipe and fading out to .7 towards the back.

Car runs like a absolute cr*p sometimes and I still haven't managed to figure out why, out of ideas now to be honest. Try and get some time to do a bit of diagnosing next week hopefully.

Tosh21

27-03-2022, 09:58 AM #151

Got all my exhaust bits today, I hope the cad model works after all this planning.

Stainless flange, those little holes were points I put in for referencing while I drew the flange and I forgot to delete them. Oops! They are pretty shallow though and the weld should penetrate into them fully. Hopefully

15mm thick! Ordered 12 but they said they will give me 15 for the same price as the 12 was bowed. Not complaining really, gives me plenty of meat to machine off after it's been welded so it's dead flat.

The 90 elbows. They are mega tight, ideally they should be long rad to flow nicer but being a turbo manifold it's not quite as important. Very high quality for the price!

All my exhaust materials minus the silencer which is gonna be a custom job again. The whole system after the manifold is 3" inconel starting from .9 at the downpipe and fading out to .7 towards the back.

Car runs like a absolute cr*p sometimes and I still haven't managed to figure out why, out of ideas now to be honest. Try and get some time to do a bit of diagnosing next week hopefully.

john wan
Posting Freak

890

27-03-2022, 10:46 AM

#152

He he he he i knew you would copy me in the end thicker is best ha ha ha

john wan

27-03-2022, 10:46 AM #152

He he he he i knew you would copy me in the end thicker is best ha ha ha

Tosh21
Member

171

27-03-2022, 11:00 AM

#153

To be fair, I think the one i have on now would work if i had a turbine in the turbo. There must be so much pressure in the manifold it just blows it up but ohwel. A nice thick beast is the way Wink

lol no need for a turbo brace either

Tosh21

27-03-2022, 11:00 AM #153

To be fair, I think the one i have on now would work if i had a turbine in the turbo. There must be so much pressure in the manifold it just blows it up but ohwel. A nice thick beast is the way Wink lol no need for a turbo brace either

john wan
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890

27-03-2022, 12:06 PM

#154

Yeah man lets see you blow holes in this one ha ha ha ha

john wan

27-03-2022, 12:06 PM #154

Yeah man lets see you blow holes in this one ha ha ha ha

Tosh21
Member

171

16-04-2022, 01:05 PM

#155

Make collector and stubbs, mount in jig and just join the dots!

Started making the larger exhaust system. downpipe welded up and fits way better than before, managed to tuck it right up to the chassis so it won't scrape.

Check out the bowing in that baby!

Got a new fuel pump, 340LPH apparently. much quieter than the bosch, can still hear it but nowhere near as bad as before. Car stopped missing and juddering too, runs nicely and pulls alright like it used to

Went testing with a manufacturer and saw this beauty in the car park, it was owned by the test driver!

Got a lovely package from owen developments.

It's exactly the same size as my tr30 so works perfectly. Pretty light too

Wastegate was rebuilt too. New diaphragm, new body, new seal, new valve and a spring for £130. Pretty awesome price!

[Image: IMAG0589_zpsqhnq7uc8.jpg]

Turbo mounted for mocking stuff up. Hopefully I can get everything in and plumbed up so I can test run it in the next couple of weeks.

[url=http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/toshamov/media/IMAG0595_zpsonebl0de.jpg.html] [Image: IMAG0595_zpsonebl0de.jpg]

Tosh21

16-04-2022, 01:05 PM #155

So turns out making manifolds from pipe is a whole new ballgame compared to tube! Had to scrap the collector, can't be done without a pipe expander so plan b! Made a jig off my current manifold to position the collector exit and wastegate, also took some measurements so I can avoid the water pipe and make the manifold on the bench instead of on the car. Will see when it's done weather it works or not.

Make collector and stubbs, mount in jig and just join the dots!

Started making the larger exhaust system. downpipe welded up and fits way better than before, managed to tuck it right up to the chassis so it won't scrape.

Check out the bowing in that baby!

Got a new fuel pump, 340LPH apparently. much quieter than the bosch, can still hear it but nowhere near as bad as before. Car stopped missing and juddering too, runs nicely and pulls alright like it used to

Went testing with a manufacturer and saw this beauty in the car park, it was owned by the test driver!

Got a lovely package from owen developments.

It's exactly the same size as my tr30 so works perfectly. Pretty light too

Wastegate was rebuilt too. New diaphragm, new body, new seal, new valve and a spring for £130. Pretty awesome price!

[Image: IMAG0589_zpsqhnq7uc8.jpg]

Turbo mounted for mocking stuff up. Hopefully I can get everything in and plumbed up so I can test run it in the next couple of weeks.

[url=http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/toshamov/media/IMAG0595_zpsonebl0de.jpg.html] [Image: IMAG0595_zpsonebl0de.jpg]

Sparkystav
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17-04-2022, 06:36 AM

#156

Nice mate, turbo looks good!

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Sparkystav

17-04-2022, 06:36 AM #156

Nice mate, turbo looks good!

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john wan
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890

17-04-2022, 07:01 AM

#157

Looks good mate I'm sure you were effing an jeffing a bit trying to make the bends work .
glad you liked my car I lent it to him for the day his coral was being fixed

john wan

17-04-2022, 07:01 AM #157

Looks good mate I'm sure you were effing an jeffing a bit trying to make the bends work .
glad you liked my car I lent it to him for the day his coral was being fixed

Tosh21
Member

171

21-05-2022, 12:12 PM

#158

Wee hole in the floor to run the wire, tucked away nicely behind the glovebox. Gonna fill it with some black silicone at some point

Can never have too many lambda sensors

Put back together and mounted up. Gonna make a 2 pod gauge holder and boost controller holder in one out of the top of the center console piece with some fiberglass and wrap it along with all the other plastic on the dash at some point

So I made this badboy, pretty hard to weld this thick stuff actually! Thought it would be easy but it's harder than the super thin wall stuff I'm used to

Ended up with one super long primary and the first 2 primaries are kinda in the way of everything but I'll make things fit even if i have to go through wheelarches or whatever

Made a water feed off the oil cooler (apparently it's an oil cooler anyway)

Fitted the manifold, was an absolute ***** and took 2 of us to fit it. Not looking forward to taking off and refitting it after I weld the wastegate port on!

Had to do a bit of milling on the oil drain

Mounted the turbo and hooked up the water and oil feeds

Made some of the oil return in ali tube cos it was quite close to the manifold and rubber might melt. Put a firesleve over all the rubber bits

The only picture I have of the rest of the exhaust for some reason. Made it a 2 piece system with a v band in the middle.

Fired her up and drove her home. Wow what a noise!! Turbo wasn't hooked up to anything so it was way loud, making turbo noises all the way home! you can hear it spool at 2k rpm if i open the throttle enough and at 3k it whistles whatever throttle I have so shouldnt have much lag. There is a bit of a delay between opening the throttle and turbo whistle but that's probably from having a long ish tubular manifold.
Drove to work and there was oil in the engine bay coming out the end of the compressor housing. Called up owens and they said it's because I don't have it hooked into the engine and not to run it like that or it can overspeed. Kinda obvious really, DOH! Haven't ran the car since and took the turbo off, will make a blank for it like I did before so i can keep it driving while I do charge piping, wastegate, screamer pipe (possibly) charge piping and an ecu extension harness.

Still loads to do!

Tosh21

21-05-2022, 12:12 PM #158

Finally had some time to sit down and do an update, been insanely busy working till 11 every night and doing weekends.

Fitted an AEM wideband, for monitoring mainly. Just as a piece of mind for the ol boost.

Wired into cigarette lighter

Wee hole in the floor to run the wire, tucked away nicely behind the glovebox. Gonna fill it with some black silicone at some point

Can never have too many lambda sensors

Put back together and mounted up. Gonna make a 2 pod gauge holder and boost controller holder in one out of the top of the center console piece with some fiberglass and wrap it along with all the other plastic on the dash at some point

So I made this badboy, pretty hard to weld this thick stuff actually! Thought it would be easy but it's harder than the super thin wall stuff I'm used to

Ended up with one super long primary and the first 2 primaries are kinda in the way of everything but I'll make things fit even if i have to go through wheelarches or whatever

Made a water feed off the oil cooler (apparently it's an oil cooler anyway)

Fitted the manifold, was an absolute ***** and took 2 of us to fit it. Not looking forward to taking off and refitting it after I weld the wastegate port on!

Had to do a bit of milling on the oil drain

Mounted the turbo and hooked up the water and oil feeds

Made some of the oil return in ali tube cos it was quite close to the manifold and rubber might melt. Put a firesleve over all the rubber bits

The only picture I have of the rest of the exhaust for some reason. Made it a 2 piece system with a v band in the middle.

Fired her up and drove her home. Wow what a noise!! Turbo wasn't hooked up to anything so it was way loud, making turbo noises all the way home! you can hear it spool at 2k rpm if i open the throttle enough and at 3k it whistles whatever throttle I have so shouldnt have much lag. There is a bit of a delay between opening the throttle and turbo whistle but that's probably from having a long ish tubular manifold.
Drove to work and there was oil in the engine bay coming out the end of the compressor housing. Called up owens and they said it's because I don't have it hooked into the engine and not to run it like that or it can overspeed. Kinda obvious really, DOH! Haven't ran the car since and took the turbo off, will make a blank for it like I did before so i can keep it driving while I do charge piping, wastegate, screamer pipe (possibly) charge piping and an ecu extension harness.

Still loads to do!