Here are some pics of my friends current project. 8x CRX with a 93 z6 swap. Pretty much barebones, with only an RPM swith with stock si ecu/etc. He's building a junkyard turbo setup, and has only spent $150 so far includeing the turbo and all the fittings. Sure the manifold was welded and will probably crack, and sure it looks crappy but he's doing it mostly as a learning experiance. I just snapped these pics tonight, hopefully in a few days he should have all the piping hooked up. And yeah, i already told him he's ****** nuts

 

Hows he got the rpm switch hooked up?

 

 

so any details on what cars these parts came off of???

thats a pretty nice lookin intercooler....

what manifold???

 

Hehe, the junkyard turbo set-up. Is that an HF Manifold? What kind of intercooler/was A/C retained? Looks pretty good, I'd like to see how much power it makes on the Z6. What CRXBart said too.

Does your friend have a spare motor? Maybe he will be the next Abaz (guy on another board who blew up 4 or so motors with his homemade set-ups-mostly for fun).

 

its a starion intercooler (AKA conquest)

 

Hey bro if you could have your bro send me an email for info on that turbo setup. mike@hpnc.com

 

heeh dooope

 

I dont like the looks of that oil drain line. It looks like the oil has to travel down and then back up to enter the oil pan.

 

Its just the angle of the picture, its actually pretty straight.

 

Nice Work, May I ask what the hell he used to adapt the manifold to the turbo? is that a fatty weld? or is their a plate somewhere in their?

Its a Civic STD manifold.. you can tell by the imprint #3 on exhaust runner #4

Once he gets everything dialed in, do you guys mind taking some pics and I can post them on my website?
http://www.homemadeturbo.com

is that a Vg30 turbo? 300zx?

Jeff

 

Not bad at all.........

Who ever said horsepower is expensive?

 

He got the original manifold from the car he took the turbo from (cant remember what kinda car/turbo) and cut the flange off of it. The flange was welded to a plate, and the plate to the civic manifold.

 

******* ingenius. Seriously. That's always good to see...someone using SENSE more than dollars.

I always love a good boneyard build-up car that can run with the guys who spend a LOT of money on their cars and talk **** about how bad-*** they are.

 

ive seen them welds break when doin it like that its kinda not good just a plate like abaz has is better from wut ive seen on my friends cars they dont break and its a little safer to go with the plate do to the stress of teh turbos weight on teh weld

 

Why cant I sem to find a freakin Starion intercooler?!?!?!?! GRRRRRR.

-Seth

 

I didnt want to take any chances on my 14b turbo.. So I welded it and used fasteners..



Btw, what kind of turbo is that anyways? is it a 300zx turbo? vg30?

Jeff

 

hey jeff, you ever get your friends rex working right w/ the turbo kit? this is the guy up the street w/ the black hatch.

 

Has he run into any cooling problems yet?

 

Abaz did you use copper or plain weldings?

I'm still figuring out a good method to combine a D-series turbo manifold with my B-series manifold.....

 

no, but he really didnt get a chance to drive it yet. only around the block a few times. But, i dont think it will be a problem. The turbo is fairly small, and his stock coolant system is in excellent condition.

 

Nah, he blew up his motor, and we still cant figure out why. We are still stumped on what the problem is.. My personal opinion is, that the wastegate is just fucked up. My buddie thinks the manifold he modified (drag) got fucked up. I dont know. He is buying a new Rev hard manifold, hopfully it will work out


Modified Drag manifold, so you can mount a T3/04e in a CRX.


T3/04e vs a little saab turbo.. We tried the saab turbo thinking it was bad. It probably would have just worked fine.

I update my site once in a while so keep a eye out.

~How is your car running? havent seen the hatch out at all latly

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I have never had a problem with my cooling system after I turbocharged my crx. Maybe on a warm summer day at idle it might be a bit warmer. But its not bad.

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The welds were done with a mig welder at my work, flux wire was used. Nothing fancy.

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So Ninja can you tell me what kind of turbo that is??


[Modified by AbaZ, 7:20 AM 12/19/2001]

 

hey AbaZ, can you send me the links where youre getting all these free turbos from?

 

I've got 3 from work for free, just extras around the shop, And I bought 1 14b for 100 bucks..

Jeff

 

Im getting no luck going around the junkyards around here for turbo parts........grrr..............Send me some of those DSMs if you get your hands on any more, ok?