[Mike Peyton]

also forgot to mention I recently nabbed a "svo style" 3 spoke steering wheel off ebay. much improved over the grant wheel that obstructed my view of the gauges. a little more "period correct"

Looks like this one, will get actual pics later.
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[4EyedTurd]

Mike, are you only running coolant hoses to the heater core? Did you block the lower intake off?

[Mike Peyton]

I am running to the lower intake, and to the oil cooler as well as heater core. All that stuff is still intact, will be upgrading those lines to braided with AN fittings over winter. At some point I believe an EFR 6258 is in my future, so I will be putting in a tee for that as well.

[Mike Peyton]

Haven't updated some things that have been in the works since mid December. Found a lightly used EFR 6258 and sold the Turbonetics. Turbo came off Honda's Indycar team car, one of two turbos that are used in the V6 2.2L engine that makes 750HP and weighs 248#. water cooled aluminum bearing housing as well. this thing is LIGHT!!!! SS .64AR turbine housing looks great as well.

Sold the old manifold that was T3 flanged. Building a new log header, and mounting this up soon:





While the truck is down, going to go back into the head and do a little more porting on it, and replacing all of the coolant lines with PTFE braided line. I am deleting the line to the lower intake, and on the fence about deleting the oil cooler circuit. I'll probably keep that part.

Also have an MS2 daughter board and electronic boost control chip coming for my archaic MS1 ECU. the EFR has elecronic boost control, and I went with the medium 19psi wastegate canister.

More pics when I have some more progress.

[TurboRay]

I envy your progress AND your EFR acquisition, Mike! :dunno:

[Mike Peyton]

Actually looking at converting to plug near coil with some LS2 coils. Will probably make a tray that sits above the valve cover for the coils and run wiring parallel to the injector loom that I have now. This block has the crank trigger in it, and the intake side is going to change a little soon as well as losing the distributor. I have to get through one more emissions "visual" check before I can go to collector plates and not have another emissions check in 5 years. EGR valve has to be intact for the visual inspection. It's there, was there last time. Doesn't work and the pigtail ends about 4" underneath the split loom. I thought I was going to use the Ross Machine extrusion for a log intake, but I am going to make a bigger plenum out of 1/4" plate.


Borg Warner also has an alternate compressor housing for this model with a forward facing outlet. that's coming soon as well to clean up my IC tubing a little.

[Mike Peyton]

the turbine housing is simple and clean. 3" v-band, and big wastegate flapper. The compressor cover is connected by a V-band as well so clocking at any angle is possible with a single 10mm nut, and the wastegate canister can be clocked in 15 degree increments.

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I bought the EBC solenoid, replacement "heavy" CRV spring, additional cover for the CRV, but did not spring for the compressor wheel speed sensor yet. I can tie all of that in with MS2 I believe down the road. I'm excited to simplify the IC plumbing I have as well. No more BOV to atmosphere.

The alternate compressor cover is $250, so that can wait a bit while I get the rest of the loose ends resolved.

[turbo970]

dang...your fast. I'm still on the Kermit meme...

oh snap, I could use one of those housings

[Mike Peyton]

I got a little work done on my header, using 1.25sch40 tees and ells is a little more complicated than using 1.5sch40. the spacing on the weld ells and tees is smaller than the port spacing on the head. So off to the lathe with some pipe to make spacers.

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After welding the tees, ells, spacers and 45s, the holes were off by a small margin so what better way to fix that then an end mill!!!

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Mocked up on the head after welding to the flange, and needed to see where I was going to put the turbine flange. Wanted to get the turbo down low, but also needed to clear the alternator.
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After welding, needed to face the flange so I have NO exhaust leaks. I still use a copper gasket at the head and at the turbo, with nord-lock washers.

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And finally the rough cut on the pipe to the flange. I'll clean up the rest with a carbide burr sometime this week.

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Now just waiting on a few small items to arrive, have a new head gasket, LPG intake gasket blocking the water passage to the lower intake and all new coolant lines out of SS braided line. Moving the ECT sensor to the coolant line. Still have a heater core, and oil cooler. Also decided to buy ptfe 4an line for my oil supply line to the turbo. I had a cheap rubber braided line on it a while back that failed, and blocked the inlet to the turbo. Not interested in doing that again. More to come in a week or so.

[TurboRay]

Looks good, Mike.....it must be nice to have a milling machine handy, lol! :dunno: