awsome!

i've wanted to get rid of that crappy plastic housing since i put my vortech on and have to look at it every time i open the hood.

 

Nice job on the gap filling. that's a big gap to fill on those welds. that's alot better than what it would look like if I tried to fill that gap with molten aluminum!!

 

nice. SFR sells premade bungs for ~40. but i'm sure if you can make them yourself, thats essentially free!

very nice. what size wastegate are you using?

 

Yeah, to be honest I don't have all that much experience with aluminum welding. I find it very easy though, just have to set things up properly. With filling the gap I made sure I crank up the amperage and keep most of the arch on the thicker piece. Once they start melting at the same time I made sure my filler was nice and thick, 1/8" I think it was. Just melted righ in there no problem. It will be much cleaner when it is on an actual kit.

Hmmm, I looked everywhere for that dam thing but couldn't find it. Initially I wanted to buy them, but not that I got this figured out I won't bother. $40 savings for me, plus the shipping/duty fees. Probably saving $60.

Wastegates will be 38mm for the base kits (6062 turbos) and 44mm for the kits with a 6262 turbos.

 

not sure if you read other forums, but the grand national guys are using the 38mm gates on the 6262. They are running the 44mm on the 6765's.

One more way to cut costs as those 44s are about $100 more expensive.

 

I was thinking about that too. The 38mm should be fine for all applications in this case. In theory, you would want a smaller w/g with the bigger turbo, beacause you are looking for most of the exhaust gas to go through the turbine anyway.

Maybe I will change that, it sure would make things simpler. Just one way of doing things.

I have a $ number in mind as to how much I want to make as profit per kit. So, any savings like this $100 would reflect in the final price of the kit.

 

^ exactly. But say if someone wanted to use a 6262 on a stock block at like 8psi, then ya might need a 44mm gate.

 

I don't know why anybody would use the 6262 and run 8psi. The 6062 will be the other turbo option.

 

same reason why people are running 20g greddy kits or gt35r powerlab kits at 8psi.

 

Thats what I was thinking. Run at 8 psi on stock block; build block later and turn up the boost.

Everytime I check this thread I so want to order a kit. Just need to figure out how to spend 5k+ on my car without my wife noticing.

 

Very true.

 

Well, I won't tell your wife that you sent me money.. as long as you don't tell my wife you sent me money.

 

^ lol nice...

 

Just paypal BP the monies, wife will never know..

 

Looking good... I had a convo with Injected last week. The Z will be there on the 15th of December through the new year. Should have something Concrete in late Jan.

I am looking forward to seeing what the upper limit of this turbo kit is. I have told Injected to make the necessary support.

 

Well, I was hoping to have everything close to done this weekend. Unfortunetly the intercoolers got held up at the border for some reason. I expect them to be here on Monday, then I can get the IC to TB piping done.

All should be ready to go by November 30th and ready to ship. This will work out well because shipping will take a week to two weeks.

I had to rush a scavenge pump here as well because the place that I ordere 3 from is still on back order. Not sure why it's taking so long.

I will get all that I can done this weekend though.

 

BP turbo kits.

 

Lol, seems fitting.

My wife would call me at work out of the blue and come up with a kit/business name all the time. Only to have me say no, don't like it...gay...ect.

 

Do it!!

 

The intercoolers finally came in today, so I got right to it. At first, do to the size I thought it wouldn't fit the way I want it too. After putting it on some blocks in what I though was a good position, and making a few brackets it will all work out well.

It is tight, and at first I thought that trimming to the inside of the bumper would be neccessary, but it all turned out well. Tight fit but it's a good fit. I really like this setup do to the fact that the entire core is exposed to the oncomming air. A few pictures:




















At first I was worried that I wouldn't be able to make the tight turn on the top towards the TB. This was a big thing for me. I really didn't want to run that piping down, around and up through the fender area.


I am now waiting for the scavenge pump, and that should be here in a day or two. Look forward to a finished kit on Sunday.

Basically now that one is done the rest is easy. All the "problems" have been solved and I know exactly what to buy for each kit. This is will be the setup for built motors, the intercooler for stock blocks will be the same configuration but smaller. IC piping will for stock blocks (stage I) will be 2.5" as well, this is plenty big for 500whp.



I have also found some great turbo inlet flanges. Basically, one will be able to bolt up a T3 or a T4 furbo to the same flange. This will allow for upgrading for down the road, without having to take anything off the car.