I'm seriously bummed out because I missed the Ani DiFranco concert in Austin last night. I was too sick to go by myself - that's a lot of driving for a guy as sick as I. One of these days, when I have the time, I'm going to take a plane just to go to a concert wherever I can meet up with her.
On the other hand, I am pretty happy in that I now own a Garret T3 turbocharger unit.
Now what to do with it?? Have no fear, friends, I have plans forming within plans in my mind here.
I'm going to feel my two older brothers out and see if either of them are as much into fast cars/trucks as me. If so, then when I move to Seattle I'm going to set up an old school Chevy pickup (early sixties to late seventies) in one of their garages and have them help me build a twin turbo speed demon.
I'm already building the setup in my mind, as it'll be entirely custom. I want to use a huge dump truck turbo, if I can find one in decent shape, and definitely intercoolers from old dump trucks and/or semi trucks. I want to get a huge turbo, just a monster one, maybe even off of some mining equipment, and charge that with the other turbo, but I don't know how good of an idea that would be. The T3 is a fairly small turbo, rated for a max HP or something like 300hp, and flows only about 450cfm (which is good if you're working on an import), but what would happen if I plugged that into a system pushing more like eight or nine hundred hp? Then again, I could just upgrade it and change out the internals, but the gains for that would be kind of small. Fuck it, why not give it a shot? The beauty of a turbo is if you blow out the internals, the engine will still work (though it wouldn't be smart to just leave it there).
OR, I could just run a big diesel turbo off of both headers, but that's a lot of tubing and a lot of heat and a lot of other stuff. Still, it wouldn't be a street driven truck...well...maybe a little, but it'd be mostly for the strip.
Gonna have to look into that a little more.
I bet I could talk my buddy into letting me turbocharge his SVT
On the other hand, I am pretty happy in that I now own a Garret T3 turbocharger unit.
Now what to do with it?? Have no fear, friends, I have plans forming within plans in my mind here.
I'm going to feel my two older brothers out and see if either of them are as much into fast cars/trucks as me. If so, then when I move to Seattle I'm going to set up an old school Chevy pickup (early sixties to late seventies) in one of their garages and have them help me build a twin turbo speed demon.
I'm already building the setup in my mind, as it'll be entirely custom. I want to use a huge dump truck turbo, if I can find one in decent shape, and definitely intercoolers from old dump trucks and/or semi trucks. I want to get a huge turbo, just a monster one, maybe even off of some mining equipment, and charge that with the other turbo, but I don't know how good of an idea that would be. The T3 is a fairly small turbo, rated for a max HP or something like 300hp, and flows only about 450cfm (which is good if you're working on an import), but what would happen if I plugged that into a system pushing more like eight or nine hundred hp? Then again, I could just upgrade it and change out the internals, but the gains for that would be kind of small. Fuck it, why not give it a shot? The beauty of a turbo is if you blow out the internals, the engine will still work (though it wouldn't be smart to just leave it there).
OR, I could just run a big diesel turbo off of both headers, but that's a lot of tubing and a lot of heat and a lot of other stuff. Still, it wouldn't be a street driven truck...well...maybe a little, but it'd be mostly for the strip.
Gonna have to look into that a little more.
I bet I could talk my buddy into letting me turbocharge his SVT
I just had a bulk waste pickup at my old house and I had put all my old cams , blocks heads , and intakes out with the trash , you should have seen all the local gear heads out there loading the stuff in their cars and trucks , if they actually have the parts x-rayed they will find out everything they took is junk