Giulia Tech CommunityWell its the end of an era. The stock D16 bottom end finally gave up the ghost. I will be rebuilding a Z6 bottom end to replace it with.
Well, its been a while since I have written anything in this turbo blog thing so I figured I would updated it. According to the number of visitors to this section, people actually do read it, or at least look! HA I am still rockin the ebay turbo.. I have lost track
10,000 miles! A milestone for a sub $200 eBay turbo. lol I seem to be having good luck with these cheap China turbos. No problems with this one yet and I have still yet to install the oil line kit I bought. I am running this turbo with no restriction.. it sees full oil
After playing around with some higher boost levels I quickly found out that my fuel delivery system was inadiquit to cope with the higher CFM of this new larger turbo. In order to get more available fuel I installed a higher capacity pump and an adjustable fuel pressure regulator. For
Ok so I did get a little overly cheap on this one. I went a little more on the cost side then quality. The engine is getting a little old and I decided I would throw a cheap kit together and romp on it some. Turbo, T3/T4 (eBay) $120 Charge
First run after turbo break-in. Running 8 – 10psi Full WOT run. Break-in consisted of 10 minutes of idle time (turbo spinning slowly) while checking for oil leaks. I then did a few low speed passes, gradually working up to WOT. Not bad for driving with one hand and holding
This is the first spool of the turbo after installation. Actually the install is still not complete as you can see from the exhaust. I wanted to check for leaks before I finished it up.
While installing the new turbo I decided to replace the charge pipe as well with some light weight aluminum pipe. The problem being my 'vintage' HKS blow off valve which I LOVE and will not part with only has a metal flange. The quickest and easiest way to make it
New t3/t4 turbo install Designing and building this kit myself I started with some new aluminum charge pipe, a log style tubular manifold and a basic t3/t4 turbo. Once the manifold and turbo was installed I went to work on the down pipe which turned out to be pretty easy to fabricate. I started