Well, I got all the bends and flanges together, and I finally persuaded my best buddy Alan to start helping me mock up the downpipe. This turned out to be quite the task. ED chassis cars were NOT meant to be turbo'd, and DEFINITELY not meant to have 3" downpipes of any sort.

You can see all the tight radius bends we had to use on this thing... JEEZ!

This WAS a 3" radius 3" piping donut that I picked up from http://www.roadraceengineering.com , it's a really nice little piece of metal, too bad we had to go and cut it up so much. For smoother flow out of the exhaust housing, and to help fitment of bolts and stuff to the turbine housing, we used a very short length transition to go from a 2.5" housing outlet up to the 3" piping for the downpipe for minimum backpressure in the system. Hopefully with this setup, the flow characteristics will allow for a great exhaust evacuation setup.

We're about 50% there as these pics were taken tonight. We've still got a little work to do with the oil return line, and the closed loop wastegate I want to use. It's getting there...

PS, there's about 3/8th of an inch between the Jimfab bars and the lower bend in these pics... We "cheated" VERY slightly, and offset the bend at the top by about 1/32 and pushed the flange up as high as it would go to keep things spaced as much as possible. I hate the ED chassis sometimes. :angry:






Modified by SiR Kid at 8:28 AM 8/19/2003

 

hey - looks GREAT MAN!! isnt it fun to DIY. i did all my exhaust myself, fun stuff and only one way to learn
keep up the good work!

 

Looks great!! Let us know how everything turns out.

 

why is your compressor turned upwards?

 

Looks pretty good man.

 

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Water/air intercooled.

 

Nice work dude. I love air/water on the street.

 

This is what I have been trying to do for almost a year. Nice! I would like to see how you do your -10 return line though. Whenever I look at my setup that line is my main concern. Thanks.

 

Wow.. VERY nice!

 

We're planning on runnint the -10 return to the radiator, then use a pretty long return line with a slope still to it, and have it drain around the OUTSIDE of the downpipe to finally meet back up with the fitting from the oilpan. We're having to do this, because the DP gets in the way of the ENTIRE large part of the oilpan with the JimFab bars... Those things had better help traction A LOT, because they're becoming a PITA to work around.

 

sweeeeeet.
I couldnt do a straight 3"
i have 2.5" flared to 3 mind you the 2.5" section is only about 3 inches long then it flares.

 

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I couldnt do a straight 3"
i have 2.5" flared to 3 mind you the 2.5" section is only about 3 inches long then it flares.
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Same here. The 2.5" in mine is MAYBE 1.5" to 2" long coming straight off the turbine flange.

 

Got some more pics last night of progress....

Welded up the Donut pieces, added a little more tubing, adn got some good pics of the 2.5" to 3" transition.

Whatcha think?

 

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Water/air intercooled.

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I have one of these for sale brand new with pump, fittings, and the water line for $300 if anyone is interested, I went with a FMIC instead.

EDIT: After seeing your pic I kind of wished I used it...