turbo progress
 

well today we bought a turbo, an intercooler a piping kit, a battery relocate kit and the flanges we will weld onto the custom exhaust manifold...

i will get pictures up whenever things start coming together here in about a week or two.....

anhy thoughts on fuel injecters?

Depends on the size of your turbo and how much boost you are trying to run.
Richie supposedly had 42#ers with his 250whp setup (6psi on a Garrett T3 60-1 turbo; AR trim .63), and some others have made do with 28# injectors from a Trailblazer (again, about 250whp from 8psi on a Garrett T3/T04B V Trim .63 AR).

Some inspirational pictures......

whose is that? nice looking manifold, better than the ususal birdshit welded logs you see......

i second that i wish i could find that manifold, it would look better than the custom pipes we are making now...

and as for the boost i will be running at around 8psi...
but with the boost controler i will be keeping it in between 6-8

are wastegates able to be adjusted to the desired psi within their range?

because mine is set at 8psi spring according to its specs

you running this on a stock 3400?

things will be upgraded durring the process why?

my buddy has one that he had turboed two years ago and to this day he is still running stock at 12 psi only difference is is his is a grand am.

I got a set of injectors from my 3800 engine freshly cleaned before I removed them... if you're interested 100$ shipped to you...

well, i know that the internals of a 3400 are forged, so i would not worry

what you mean not worry lol?
is your opinion that it wont work or you think it will ? ;)

yes, called boost controller... it limits the amount of boost the wastegate sees so it doesn't open until your desired boost level is set

and nate's talking about the engine handling the extra power. the 3400 has forged rods stock.

yeah the majority of people that i have talked to have said i will be ok with this setup the only ones that say otherwise dont see the point anyways lol.

and thats what i thought about the boost controler.

i will get pics of stuff when i get farther into the progress

wrong.....


but yes, at 8psi, assuming you have a good tune, your motor will be fine....

thats what my friend and myself figure,,,,

you sure its not forged i had someone else say it is too

Well what are you describing with "it's"? Every component in the engine? The connecting rods are forged. That's it.

usually the only worry at higher psi, is the pistons, rods are usually fine, and so it the crank, but if you want SBC rods will work if you narrow down the big ends, and the 3500 has a forged crank which can be used if you turn it down, or custom rods, and then you also will need the TCE external crank trigger.....even though i bent my last crank, i opted for the stock 3400 crank and SBC rods with custom forged pistons in my built motor....

well the good thing here is that im not going that high on psi im starting at low;)

If your wastegate is set for 8psi, you cannot lower it below 8psi, you can only raise it. A boost controller can only raise the boost pressure from what the wastegate is set at. The only way to lower it is to get a different wastegate actuator (internal gate) or a different spring (external gate).

i know. i was planning on getting a spring for 6 psi

OK then you can run 6psi minimum and raise it to whatever you want :thumb:

vent
 

so we go to relocate the battery to the trunk.....get it all done wire ran under the car and everything, for some reason we forgot to fasten it at the bottom where it came u to the positive terminal on the fuse box. so with the slack it fell down and scrapped the road exposing about two feet of wire (50$ ruined) and started hitting the frame and sparking... now its at my girlfriends house awaiting me to go back and lay in the road to fix it.

on a side note; my car runs hot would switching to regular coolent help this?

Regular coolant? What do you run now?

dex cool. everyone at my work says they would NEVER keep dex cool in the car. and it probably is partly why my car heats up so fast and i should switch to the green stuff

you cant just switch from dexcool to regular coolant, i would wait til you rebuild your motor and actually tear into the gaskets and then while you have the engine apart flush your coolant and replace all of your gaskets at the same time while switching to new coolant.

everyone told me that i could just get a full coolent flush and switch to the green

hes saying to wait till you have to flush for a different reason.... rather then simply to change coolant types....

Those guys only hate dex cool because of GM's shitty V6 gaskets that have given Dex a bad name.

I love Dex-Cool. Been in the car since the beginning. No issues with overheating or high temps whatsoever. It's always in the region it should be.

hmmmm. i wish i could say the same. they claim its why it gets so hot.

im going with an hks bov for the turbo anyone else have one?

Buddy of mine has an Apex on his MR2. Works great.

where does the car run for heat? like on the gauge?

well i let the car idle it heats up real fast to about 3/4 hot the fans never kick on.(however they work with the air conditioner)... then as i drive it goes down a little but the car is almost constantly inbetween half and 3/4.... and after short drives the motor will be extremely hot just from an across town drive... i have had the coolent flushed about 6 months ago and since then had the LIMG replaced and the water pump. it was recently preasure tested and no leaks... maybe a clog? the coolent?
and why dont the fans come on auto matically? very frustrating lol

posibbly bad pcm? if so it will be changed when tuning time comes around either way.

jeez, dying water pump?

the fan on temp is 223 F

WHAT? HOLYSHIT!!! where on the gauge is that?

We have 2.4L Twin Cams also. Who knows if your tune is set differently.

brand new water pump.... i have absolutely no idea why it does this. im beginning to wonder if the gauge just misreads. so the fans dont come on cause it never actually gets that hot. thats why i think maybe confused pcm. my gas gauge doesnt work either . it picks how much gas it wants to read lol

but yeah its getting frustrating especially since thats the only thing wrong with it at the moment and the turbo setup is on the way so i want it fixed!!!;)

buy a coolant temp gauge and see if your stock gauge doesn't work

i think its going to come to that unfortunatly. how much would one cost?

http://www.glowshiftdirect.com/blue-...ure-gauge.aspx

I got mine for $50

does the electronic sender go where the stock coolent sensor is?