New Turbo for the TGPSE! PICS

[cobracmdr]

Soooooo, when are you hitting the track? ;) I'm curious to see what kind of trap speeds you'll get out of that setup.

Once Adam and I work out a few more bugs and get it tuned for 12 psi on the street.  Track will be 14 psi......next week or two I suspect as long as I stop breaking the damn thing!

[cobracmdr]

UPDATE:  Ok we have been doing a lot of tuning and this thing is getting fast as hell now!  I surprised myself earlier today when I powershifted 1-2 and the thing spun the front tires.  I'm sure you guys are like yeah big deal......well the tires on the car are cooper zeon zpt's 245/50/16! Thats a big chunk of tire to break free!

Anyways I fixed the exhaust leak, turned out to be the rear crossover ball and socket joint was warped from years of use so I got some of this stuff below called thermosteel from autozone for like $6.99.  I loosened the joint, stuffed the goopy mixture in there, tightened it up, smeared some around the outside and let it sit overnight.  Start the car up and let it idle for a few minutes to finish the cure and no more leaky crossover ;)  I had tried to tighten the rear flange to make it stop leaking, even tried copper shims, I tightened it so much I broke the damn stud off the rear exhaust manifold.  Luckly I had a spare rear manifold for a turbo grand prix in the garage with good studs and it only cost me 1.5 hours work to change it and put in a new gasket.

Otherwise I have been busy tidying up the engine compartment.  I made a EGR blockooff plate out of some 300 series stainless at work and used a copper flare pipe cap to block off the crossover pipe where the egr pipe was.  I just won and auction on ebay for a combo EGT/Boost gauge and I'm going to mount the thermocouple for the EGP where this cap is.

I have also been doing a lot of heat shielding.  Let me tell you thermotech works!  That reflective wrap really cut down the charge pipe temp and the header wrap around the turbo and downpipe really helped as well.  Enough talk enjoy the pics at the park near my house and of the updates!















Ken

[tgpfarmer]

beautifull car