Well after 2 long days of work, its almost ready to drive, all I got to say is WOW what a project i got myself into, This has been a ton of work and i hope its worth it. Pulling the stock turbo's out was one of the hardest things eva! Once you do it one time, it will be much easier the next times, but its not a fun job.
Here is the turbo somewhat mounted, with the fabricated up-pipes that are heat wrapped, I know, I know they wont last as long, but im more concerned with spool up than anything.
This is what The turbo up-pipes and everything look like out of the truck, you can install it just like this.
Not the best pic but the turbo is in it and mounted, oil lines on, Sorry for the poor pictures, i cant get the hood all the way open in the shop so its hard to get good pics.
Here is a video of the truck idling and stuff, sounds alot like a 7.3, the turbo moves pretty good amount of air with no load, I'm hoping that it lights pretty decent.
I owe a big thanks to mike (97singlecab) for the turbo, uppipes, wrap, and labor, Ryan (magicman) for the help and entertainment and Tadd and elite for letting me barrow an exhaust housing to try out.
There is alot of details that I didnt get pictures of, but i had to use an aftermarket downpipe and i welded a flange on the downpipe to match the exhaust housing. I still got some work to do, I dont know what im going to do for an air filter since the mass air flow is in the intake and i need another 90 degree bend for the turbo to intercooler pipe, and i should be driving it tomorrow with any luck.
I still need to mount the reservoir for the fuel cooler, figure out some sort of intake elbow to get rid of the EGR valve, but I think that will come at a later date, For right now I have a egr block off plate at the uppipe where the wastegate will go, I have my drive pressure guage hooked up there for now to see how this exhaust housing is going to work. The welds are less that great i will say that, and there are certain things i will change when the cab comes off to do studs. But for now it will work, im almost thinking of a log style manifold instead of "header" type. I have some thick walled tubing that would hold the heat in pretty well, and might make it easier to fabricate.
Well here are some pictures of it all buttoned up, still have to reroute the crank case vent, but i didnt have a big enough 90 to make the bend, the compressor housing is pretty big and there isnt much room to snake it down past it, so i can go down the frame and out the back of the truck, most everything is good to go, fixed my oil drain leak, then it sprung an oil feed leak, got that fixed too, so hopefully it wont look like my old 70s ford when i park in the driveway :doh:
Here is the turbo somewhat mounted, with the fabricated up-pipes that are heat wrapped, I know, I know they wont last as long, but im more concerned with spool up than anything.
This is what The turbo up-pipes and everything look like out of the truck, you can install it just like this.
Not the best pic but the turbo is in it and mounted, oil lines on, Sorry for the poor pictures, i cant get the hood all the way open in the shop so its hard to get good pics.
Here is a video of the truck idling and stuff, sounds alot like a 7.3, the turbo moves pretty good amount of air with no load, I'm hoping that it lights pretty decent.
I owe a big thanks to mike (97singlecab) for the turbo, uppipes, wrap, and labor, Ryan (magicman) for the help and entertainment and Tadd and elite for letting me barrow an exhaust housing to try out.
There is alot of details that I didnt get pictures of, but i had to use an aftermarket downpipe and i welded a flange on the downpipe to match the exhaust housing. I still got some work to do, I dont know what im going to do for an air filter since the mass air flow is in the intake and i need another 90 degree bend for the turbo to intercooler pipe, and i should be driving it tomorrow with any luck.
I still need to mount the reservoir for the fuel cooler, figure out some sort of intake elbow to get rid of the EGR valve, but I think that will come at a later date, For right now I have a egr block off plate at the uppipe where the wastegate will go, I have my drive pressure guage hooked up there for now to see how this exhaust housing is going to work. The welds are less that great i will say that, and there are certain things i will change when the cab comes off to do studs. But for now it will work, im almost thinking of a log style manifold instead of "header" type. I have some thick walled tubing that would hold the heat in pretty well, and might make it easier to fabricate.
Well here are some pictures of it all buttoned up, still have to reroute the crank case vent, but i didnt have a big enough 90 to make the bend, the compressor housing is pretty big and there isnt much room to snake it down past it, so i can go down the frame and out the back of the truck, most everything is good to go, fixed my oil drain leak, then it sprung an oil feed leak, got that fixed too, so hopefully it wont look like my old 70s ford when i park in the driveway :doh: