Myself and Ryan, the owner of RD Fabs, decided it was time to convert my car to turbo, so we set out on a winter project. Fortunate for me, he just became partner in a company called The Turbo Shop that specializes in turbo sales, service and rebuilding. My car was going to be stored for the winter at his shop anyways, so we took the project slow while he custom fabricated every piece by hand out of type 304 stainless. That includes both the intake and turbo manifolds. Well, not really the turbo manifold, that was made heavy duty out of Sched 10. Here's the general info:

Garret GT3071R w/ a free float .63A/R turbine housing
Tial 38mm Wastegate
Forge BPV
FMIC (28X8X3.5)
HD Turbo Manifold

Riding on a 1 bar spring while I learn how to tune and mess around with it. I will eventually bump up to ~22-23psi once I get the hang of it and get my LC-1 hooked up to HPT Pro. The only thing I still need to get pictures of is the mounted turbo/dump underneath. The car sits two hours away and I'll be picking it up next weekend. Unfortunately, we finished too late yesterday and as my wife put it to 06Black last night, her lame ass can't make that drive in the dark. After being w/o my car for 6 months, driving home without it even though it ran was a very hard thing to do last night, but it's better than watching my wife drive her TBSS into a tree...

 

If you even think about mentioning how dirty my car is, I will e-kick you in the nuts...

...If you love dogs, I'm sure you spotted our pup in the back of Katie's TBSS!



Only decent video I have from the initial start up and drive. I love my wife to death, but sometimes she is not the best videographer...



P.S. - Thanks to Paul(JohnnySasakiMGS) and Nick(Rollover360) for coming all the way out to the shop to check out the build. Big thanks to Bryan for help w/ the tuning...

 

Dude sick, I had no idea you were turbocharging the car haha.

Got any old parts to sell me?

 

Looks clean man

 

Looks nice man. What kind of numbers are you putting up??

 

that **** is sick! I can't wait to get that far along on my balt!

 

Grats Edub! Sickness in its most epic form. Also...dog is epic. She rides in style in the TB SS

 

that intake mani looks amazing!!! good looking car you have there

 

What are you looking for?

Thanks!

Still working on tuning. I don't expect to try for numbers for a month or so. At ~22-23psi, I should be able to tweak out 400whp somewhat safely. It'll take a lot of work, though...

Just keep the faith mang!

Thanks! And the dog is a boy, lol. He's lab/retriever and we think shiba inu cause he's only 35lbs at 6 months. His name is Cam...

Thanks a lot!

 

Oh whoops read it wrong. thought her name was Katie! Well Cam looks like he'll be a good buddy to you. =)

 

Looking good man.

 

Katie is the wife, not a dog

He's our little ********!

Thanks!

 

Anything that will make my POS faster and more efficient... lol

Do you have a header/DP by any chance? Mine always leaks at the header to DP connection and I can never get a proper seal. FML.

 

Awesome manifolds!!! Nice job on the whole setup. I can tell someone isn't a nooby welder.


What did you do with your washer fluid tank?

 

very nice.. good work

 

Thats a beautiful build u have there. Congrats on the job well done!

 

that mustang in the background. send it to me


kbai

 

What are you doing next weekend? Ryan may be able to take a look at it for your to see if there's anything we can do. Depending on your power goals, my old header may work well. If you want more than 275whp, then it's the primaries are prob too small...

Ryan has been welding for 15+ years.

I'll be fabricating a tank for the trunk to run both meth and and the stock washer pump. Right now, I'm using rain-x...



Thanks!

I appreciate it!

Let me guess, you don't need me to send it with the turbo four, though...

 

newp. wanna keep it just like that, and stick an ls1 in it

 

Almost forgot my favorite pic...

 

Keep posting dude, looks good.

 

that is one great looking engine bay, definetly looking forward to seeing your vids of the balt

 

make me one!

 

Can you host the pictures on the gallery on here so I can see them? Thanks!

 

dayum man ... good kept secret i luff it .. any chance those intake manifolds will be coming up for sale?