Been working on the car quite a bit more than uasual. Trying to work on it as much as I can while the weather is still iffy.
The Holset is a T3 downgrading and my new manifold is a T4 flange, and I didn't like any of the adaptors out in EBay land, so I just decided to make my own so I could fit the bigger turbocharger more easily.
Here is how it turned out, after a few hours of work. It was pretty tough to make because I rotated the housing away from the head, and angled it towards the headlight a little bit so I could make up a new intake pipe. My old intake pipe will simply not fit, the turbo is in the way, so I will just have to get creative with a new one. A front facing intake manifold would really help here... But I don't have that kind of $$ right now. I would rather just make one myself, but the TIG welded that I have acccess to is only good for welding steel.
This is pretty much my first time doing any real TIG welding, but I think it turned out pretty damn good for not knowing what I'm doing! Pretty excited about that haha
Now I could finally set the Holset on there properly so I could get a few other things mocked up.
Here is my idea for the intake pipe as well, it will have to he heat wrapped like the last one since it is right over the exhaust.
Up next:
Make turbo oil drain line
Fab new downpipe
Weld intercooler pipes
Change oil cooler system and add remote filter adaptor.
