5-31-08 Michigan Wrenching

[Dirk]

Small turbo is the early99. They gave him the early 99 twice?

[bigcountrysg]

Originally Posted by Dirk

Small turbo is the early99. They gave him the early 99 twice?

They gave him the Y pipe for an Early 99 then he went and got the Flanges for the Y pipe he bought.

[Dirk]

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[TurboSevenThree]

Yeah. I wish I'd've noticed before. This sucks. But I'm saving fuel money! Lol!

[TurboSevenThree]

WOOOOH! Finally done!!!!! It went back together like cake. Lining stuff up was the biggest problem after we went to another state for a band clamp bolt (no joke we went to Toledo, Ohio) We didn't even get any pics with the turbo back in or anything, we were going balls to the wall. We're done playin.

Now me n' my dad have to take a drive down there and pickup the car I had to leave LOL! Driven close to 700 miles in the last week and a half for this

I got my rig back. Now I've gotta make the 4" exhaust stop hitting the frame. And hook up my CB n' such! Also need to re-probe my gauges into the more correct places (ie: BEFORE the turbo not after, and into the spider pipe not the M.A.P. line) I got about a week before i move!

[bigcountrysg]

Yes it is all back together and no leaks.

I will say this, the chevy exhaust doughnuts might be ok. But I do not see how any one would ever crush them down enough. Those are 3 times the size of the oem exhaust doughnuts. I think if Rob would have went with the oem ones from the get go it would have been done a while ago.

But either way it is back together and running good. Like he has said, he needs to move the locations of his turbo gauge line and the pyro probe. The cb well I hooked him up with some real good coax that will do the job for him.

[Dirk]

did fixing the leak raise the drive pressure allowing more boost?

[TurboSevenThree]

Originally Posted by Dirk

did fixing the leak raise the drive pressure allowing more boost?

Like 2psi. I found out my gauge is probed into the M.A.P. line, and it seems to me that that wouldn't be that accurate. I see a max of 16 on the gauge. I'm gonna re-probe them sometime soon. And maybe just completely re do them in an a-pillar pod. Eventually.

[Maintain]

Originally Posted by farmboypowerstroke

O i see now when i do mine i'll just go with new everything

DON'T DO THIS

Only replace what's needed. New uppipes, gaskets, etc cost 300 bucks!