Tech Day: Georgia gets a Turbo

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9am is the start time or whenever you can come!

I took off the air cleaner and oil pan today to get things started. I hope to get the pan cleaned up tonight so it's ready for welding the bung to it.

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AJAEbj42 said:
Hey Brad, were you able to use your stock air filter housing? It looks awfully tight to still use that.

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I managed to use mine, had to shorten the mounting brackets on it, so it sat flat on the fender, and further outboard, and the hose to turbo is awkward as well..

Bit of a pain in the ass, but it worked out in the end.

Mind you, it was an AXT setup, but probably similar amounts of room.

Fun project. You will like. :beer:
 
Turbo in a day!

A turbo install in a day..... well, almost. Still need to finish the air intake portion, but we test fired it and she works and sounds great.

Thanks for ALL THE HELP! Kim, Vince, Tony and his wife, Sue (drove up from Oak Harbor), Martin, and Brad. It was a great team effort for sure.

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Fantom said:
Congrats Rob! is it finished and running or still some small details left?
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Need to finish up the air cleaner to turbo and the exhaust. I'll likely just put a cone filter on it rather than spend hours trying to fab with my poor skills something to make my stock setup work.

Then off to the exhaust shop to put a new 2.5" exhaust system on. More $$$ that Brad doesn't have to spend! :D


Betarocker said:
How are you increasing fuel delivery to deal with the increaded air?

Also, looks like there's room for an intercooler between the grille and radiator.
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I'll experiment with turning the fuel up on the IP but I'll take that one easy; I'm not after a rocket here; we're only dealing with 85HP to begin with ! I plan not to run an intercooler. From what I read on MUD, it's a little overkill, but I'm certainly not opposed to running one later if need be. I'll see how it settles in balancing fuel and temps for the first little while.

Here is the install procedure:

1) Remove oil pan and clean up to get ready for welding of bung for oil drain. Pick out small metal fragments and cringe with each one telling yourself, it's NOT Cam bearings :mad:

2) Remove air cleaner and exhaust manifold
3) Install 13BT exhaust manifold gasket (metal one)
4) Drill and tap manifold for EGT (the most nerve racking part for me but it worked out very well)
5) Install manifold and EGT probe
6) Install adapter plate
7) Install Turbo
8) Get friend to 'clock' the turbo ensuring that the air part points correctly over the engine; we had to do a slight change to get the silicone over my hot water heat exchanger.
9) Clock the center part so the oil inlet is on top and the oil drain is on the bottom in a vertical position
10) Install the exhasut flange (I had mine fabbed up by a local shop)
11) Install oil drain
12) Install oil feed; we used the port for my factory oil gauge; I'll put a 'T' on later. I run a mechanical oil pressure gauge on the front port, so I have oil pressure info
13) Disconnect EDIC electrics and turn the engine over to get oil flowing out of the oil feed. Connect oil feed line
14) Put clamps on vacuum hoses between intake and IP (now pressurized so they can blow off)
15) Reconnect EDIC electrics and Fire it up!

Pretty straight forward and the kit is well designed. We had to do some workarounds to get it all to fit but really it worked quite well.

I can't emphasize enough how great it is to have knowledgeable and generous club members around. Vince packed my oil pan in his backpack then rode his Husaberg home to weld and paint for me. Brad started work at 3am to he could get off early enough to come help; everyone contributed in other areas as well.

We had three different turbo setups in the driveway to look at and compare. Brad runs the same kit, but if you know his truck, it looks nothing like mine :eek: I learned a ton from these guys. :beer:

Quote of the day: "The infinite adjustment is limited"

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The kit is from Keith (diesel42) out of Northern California,

Kit comes with new Garrett 2052 turbo, adapter, 13BT exhaust manifold (from Steve @EBI), oil inlet hose, oil drain hose, silicon fittings for turbo to engine intake.

To save shipping, Keith gets his suppliers to ship directly to you rather than to him and then onto you, so yes, Steve would ship the 13BT manifold direct. I picked mine up direct from Steve at a previous meeting.

You'll have to call for pricing as it depends where the ship to point is, current pricing for the turbo, etc, etc.

It's more expensive than doing it yourself, but it's a time saver, no doubt there.
 
Good job guys!! Sorry did not make it out.

For the filter if you wish to retain the stock housing (i would they are great) see if a top off a hj60 will work i was looking at Gavins the other day and the outlet is muc shorter. Could even look at a HDJ81 top its got a 90* down tirn out of it.

In our summer dusty FSR i would try and retain te stock filter/housing a cone filter would mot last long I bet plus all the hot air it will suck in.
 
Thanks for the suggestions Jeremy,

I tried Mat's top from his BJ60 but the diameter is wider than what I have already. Yeah I'm not thrilled with the cone option either. Someday; I'll probably put a snorkel on it; but since I'm DYING to drive it, I may put the cone solution on for now.

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Took Georgia out for a spin tonight. Put on a conical filter, clamped the vacuum line to the IP.

WOW. Like everyone says, it's a different truck. Haven't installed my boost gauge and have not altered my fuel yet.

My exhaust is only 12 inches long, but it wasn't terribly noisy. The whine of the turbo can be heard as soon as I push on the accelerator.

That whine is a beauitful noise on a clear evening with the top down! :)

On the Abby Mission highway as you come into Abbotsford, you make a left turn to go up the hill to bypass downtown. My NA 3B did this hill barely in 3rd gear.

Tonight I shifted into 4th and the truck continued to accelerate through 85km/h. All the while my EGT's stayed under 1000 (which when NA, it would hit 1100 easy).

What an incredible mod this is! :steer:
 
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Very nice Rob! :beer:

I remember the first time I drove my BJ70 after driving my then-new BJ74 for a while. It felt like I was dragging an anchor :grinpimp:

So what's next... lockers?
 
Now that my truck has exchanged vacuum for pressure, my wallet picked up the vacuum; I'm going to have to hold off on expenditures for a while.... (well, maybe that Paki top ;) )

and then there's the busted engine mount that Kim noticed, that I confirmed today.....
 
Hey Keith! That is a heat exchanger for my hot water shower, which I've actually yet to field test. :o
 
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