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locally, the domestic guys are starting to get into the turbo stuff which is kinda cool. now that we recently became a NLR distributor, the phone rings a lot more with guys building domestic projects, so i figured its time to take one on.

basic parts run down:

2 - 62mm Precision Turbo billet turbos with S housings .81 ex
2 - Tial 44mm wastegates
Tial Q bov
Dual 2.5" inlet, single 3" inch outlet vertical flow FMIC (customer supplied)
C6 Corvette exhaust manifolds (customer did not want to spend the money building custom manifolds)
2.5" stainless up-pipes
3" stainless down-pipes
custom dual 3" stainless exhaust
2.5" aluminum hot side charge piping
3" cold side charge piping that will be stepped up to 3.5" after entering engine bay
NLR AMS-1000 boost controller


everything on this car is extremely tight. for example the passanger side downpipe a 3" tube fits, but once you weld on the vband ring it does not fit anymore, and you have to be really creative on how to get it into place. i think the drivers side downpipe is the hardest thing i have ever made. you can not see what you are doing, you can not get your hands in there to hold anything, you can not use a marker to mark anything. i really really wish i had one of these motors on an engine stand for that.

here are a few pictures.










everything will be getting heat coated, all surrounding "stuff" will get some sort of heat wrap, etc. and will probably build some heat shields if i feel it is needed as well once all of the "kit" fabrication is complete.

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customer provided intercooler






































next step is cold side charge pipe and somehow making the wastegates fit in there

ValleySyder

we just did a direct port nitrous system on that car .. props on fabbing up a GTO turbo kit wid very lil room in that bay !..in for results..

SOHCD16y8

Very nice, what are the plans for the cold side routing?

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truthfully, there is not enough room on this car to really have plans. its just a matter of making things fit where ever possible. hopefully i'll have an answer to that question some time today lol

nasteboyii

WOW joe looks great
way more patience then i have
keep up the good work
in for the build

dan

jjspec

Nice!!! Want to do this to my friend's LS1

oneludesol

the turbo placement on this thing is absolutely fantastic!

Rogue108

Sweet *** Joe. I have always loved the look of GTO's and your doing the next best thing by boosting it. That engine bay is beyond tight. Getting plumbing done in that car is probably harder than keeping dogs in a bathtub. Nice work as usual !

Are you handling the tuning duties and what is being used to for engine management?

redboost10

wow, those cars fun mid 12's right from the dealership with street tires, i can only imagein what its going to run now

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dogs in a bath tub lol




i have no idea what he is doing on the tuning side, sounds like whoever tuned the car when he had a supercharger on it is going to tune it again. dont know if thats here or somewhere else or what. im just trying to get this turbo stuff sorted out for now.

i believe he is using HP tuner for software.

91redteg

thats an awesome intercooler, are those the stock exhaust manifolds? just with up pipes fabricated to them?

B18c1turboedEK

iTrader: (1)

Are you using the stock headers? Just curious. I was thinking of doing something like that on a 5.0 im gonna build.

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they are C6 corvette manifolds, flipped backwards.

solo227

Those cars dont do mid 12s on street tires...

try low 13s...

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this particular car has been 10.8 or 10.9 something like that on his old stupidcharger set up

tepid1

Cool project Joe. You did all this by yourself?

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yup. up until this week, i spent the last 3-4 months working by myself. good help is really hard to find. place a friend of mine was working at went out of business, so he started helping me out here this week. so far his work ethic is about 656% better than the last guy lol

nos51

looks good man,real tight engine bay can wait to see it when it done!!

sq_creations

Nice work!

Blown90hatcH

Recommend some turbo blankets on that thing. Hate to cook those brake lines. Looks good man.

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everything exhaust related is getting coated, and we will be using some of the blankets T1 sells.

he had the ENTIRE cat back exhaust thats on the car right now coated. not totally sure why, but i guess he likes the coated look lol

tony tone

i want twins for my v

boostedh22a

Awesome project. Good work!!

22_42r_eg

looks good man... are those turbos braced somewhere???