I finally got some pics of my homemade turbo setup. I also got a pic of my newly modified hf manifold that I got modified to fit an external wastegate incase anybody is interested in seeing how to do that.








just playing around with the new camera

 

Looks good, how much power/psi is the motor making??

 

have you run it at full op temps yet? and how sure are you that the brazing will hold up to vibration and heat?

 

I heard brazing anything onto the mani like that wasn't a very good idea.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by b16boost &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Looks good, how much power/psi is the motor making??</TD></TR></TABLE>
i'm running 8psi right now with the new wastegate. I was running 9-10psi with the old messed up internal wastegate that caused my spool times to be insanely slow and I ran a 14.1 @100mph untuned. Now i'm semi tuned with 8psi.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hybridvteceg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">have you run it at full op temps yet? and how sure are you that the brazing will hold up to vibration and heat?</TD></TR></TABLE>
i have run it quite a bit since i got the new wastegate on there. I am pretty confident that it will hold up find. The guy that did it is a very well known welder and actually had a couple scca race cars in the garage that he was doing work for. He has done work for a few of my friends as well that looked very nice.

 

well hopefuly it works. but it sure doesnt look cute

 

yeah definitly looks sketchy, but if it works . btw i can braze better than that and i only practiced for 3 hrs in class for a grade

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Casey &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah definitly looks sketchy, but if it works . btw i can braze better than that and i only practiced for 3 hrs in class for a grade </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yea its not the best braze.
I seen another guy on here do this but I have yet to hear how the "bond" can hold up to the constant heat cycles that it will see.

 

props for the brazed mani.... i have had to repair three of those that people migged thinking it would work.

I have brazed cracks on two manifolds that have held up well over time. I just brazing when in a budget situation.

 

I dunno i guess we will see. Seeing some of the other stuff this guy has welded I trusted him with doing my wastegate flange. I know its not the prettiest thing, but he seemed confident that it would hold up. I wasn't really under the impression that brazing was suppost to look as clean as normal welds. I don't know **** about welding though .

 

MShue you still running the 59300 ?

BTW, This is 1493cc from the D board.

Your setup looks sweet.

Just flat black over the brazing.

 

Nice job. You won't see the brazing with the hood down anyway. haha

 

Nice. I would put a piece of hose or something between the ss oil feed and that vacuum line though. It could rub a hole into the vacuum line over time...and since it's the wastegate vacuum line, you definitely dont want a hole in that

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sporkcrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Nice. I would put a piece of hose or something between the ss oil feed and that vacuum line though. It could rub a hole into the vacuum line over time...and since it's the wastegate vacuum line, you definitely dont want a hole in that </TD></TR></TABLE>


Good point. Those lines will put a hole in concrete.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Dr. D-Series &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">MShue you still running the 59300 ?

BTW, This is 1493cc from the D board.

Your setup looks sweet.

Just flat black over the brazing.</TD></TR></TABLE>
thanx a bunch man. I am still running the 59300. I actually threw the stock cam in recently, but once I got the new wastegate and the boost stopped creaping and all that i noticed that the top end was seriously lagging compared to when i had the cam. I threw it back in and the car pulls way better up top now.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sporkcrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Nice. I would put a piece of hose or something between the ss oil feed and that vacuum line though. It could rub a hole into the vacuum line over time...and since it's the wastegate vacuum line, you definitely dont want a hole in that </TD></TR></TABLE>
damn good idea. I didn't think of that

 

looks good!

 

Brazin trust me in know from experience

 

nice engine bay but i dunno bout the yellow stuff

 

what bad experience did you have?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SOHC_MShue &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what bad experience did you have? </TD></TR></TABLE>

i had my friends dad do some brazing on some parts that were cracked on my menifold, and it just cracked everywhere that the brazing was. I ended up getting it welded and never had the problem again

 

damn thats no good

 

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy v

 

thanx man!

 

nice setup

 

Looks good. Always like to see more sohc's.