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I want to see how you plan to route the exhaust to the turbo with how tight those frame rails are. Snaking both exhaust banks to one side won't leave that much room in my mind. Maybe the bay looks bigger once the straight six is yanked out of there. That's the reason I want to supercharge it instead.
Supercharge would be much better for offroading anyways. I just miss the spool noise and BOV. I also really want to learn to tig and this would be a great project as all the tubing will need to be Tigged for hot and cold sides. The Hooker manifolds will prob need to be flipped from side to side and then flipped upside down so they point forward and up. the driver side will come up a few inches and pie cut across the front of the motor giving like 3-4 inches of space for the accessory drive, then the passenger side will come up a little bit but it will merge with the driver side pipe from two 2.5 inch pipes to one 3 inch into the bottom of the turbo with a V Band. Right at the merge the wastegate will be added and then routed either under or over to the side of the turbo to be connected to the downpipe. Really hoping with low boost, one wastegate will be okay. Im also hoping the turbo will sit up kinda high behind my battery so ill have room for all of that. The cold side will go through a hole in the firewall under the battery tray that will need to be cut, into the intercooler and out the other side through another hole and up to the intake. Kinda over simplifying it here but ive looked at it quite a bit and it all checks out as far as spacing goes. Ive got over a foot of space from the back of my electric fan to the front of my accessory drive and theres a TON of dead space under the battery trays on each side. the drivers side by the power steering is the only place it is tight
Youre totally right on that. The LS motors burn up small turbos and spool up very easily, thats why i was looking at running low boost out of something like a 73 to 78mm compressor. I havent gotten that far yet into the research yet on it. Most guys turboing LS motors are looking for max power and racing. Which makes it tough when you are just looking for street power. Ive been trying to see if anyone is running the Compact Garret G42 on a LS with low boost but not finding much. The smaller housing would be super nice. Granted this is still something i know very little about but ive got a local resource who drag races turboed v8s thats kind of giving me some pointers
literally did the same thing just about a week ago!!
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literally did the same thing just about a week ago!!
Builds - fj62 gets a lift
@Spook50 got my window relay working perfectly. sorry about the messy bench in the background. that’s mostly my “to do” box of fj62 stuff and tools not put away properly 🙄 window up… window down… window up…
right at the end of my thread is what i did to fix it. runs like a top now
at least you’ve still got some brush material!!
if you want to replace it rock auto sells replacement ones. i got one to put on my shelf just i case my rebuild didn’t work.
I literally just threw a clutch master and slave away last week. damn it
It's all good, I appreciate it though! Mechanics stethoscope did it's job, it's a pretty nifty tool. Ordered a new cylinder this morning from CruiserCorps with two day shipping. We'll see what the actual time is with the holidays.
I haven’t looked at the condition of the slave cylinder but I’m assuming it’s the same age as the master. Which might mean the master isn’t far behind lol. Might order one of those as well.
You’ll be a pro at it by that time.
Yes. Weather is 50° calm, I'm diving in after this cup of coffee.
Absolutely love this look. That color match looks really close. What color BWM seats are those? I’m on the hunt for something similar. Thx.
