There really isn't any down time. Well there wasn't for me. I put my new engine in, drove it around for 500 miles and broke it in, then put the car on a lift and fabricated everything in a matter of 12 hours, and that includes all new exhaust from the headers back and also a trick way to bring the inlet pipe up and through the factory air box in order to hide it and make it look "trick" lol. After fabrication I pulled it out and drove it home. As long as you have everything you need from the begining your golden. Wish I could sell the kits but stupid patent laws prevents me from doing so.

-Sly

 

Damn!! 12 hours??!! You obviously have some skill and experience. I hope you stay around for a while. I may have to look you up when I max out this Vortech.

 

i consider myself a prety decent shade tree fabricator and i am not ready to try building a kit myself yet. i think it will be harder and cost more than you think.

just on the tuning side you will need a fuel pump, injectors, hptuners or (edit+efilive), and a wide band would be ideal. there is some prety serious cash right there. just bolting on a turbo and not spending time geting the tune right is nuts.

 

That is what I'm looking for right there, nothing more. (tranny concerns... that is hwat it is rated to, but I bet it could handle a lil more)


Just to let you know your tranny is rated for 450 hp at the crank not the wheels. Thats why I went with the superduty.

 

I think you should do it, I want to do the same thing with my 8.1, i want to run the 43# injectors and run what my fuel system can handle.

 

Correct, guess I should have mentioned that. I had this stuff from the get go so I forgot to mention this. Tuning IS a MUST!

-Sly

 

Alright....
Tuning, I can figure out. I have a mail order thing setup with Brian Herter and I'm sure he could at least give me a baseline, maybe even a close tune for a single turbo setup.

I am only looking for 450 crank HP btw. What, 360 to the wheels?
Can the stock fuel system handle 450 crank HP?
If I don't plan on going past 440-460HP, what would get me by (I mean what injectors, etc).

Which Turbo should I use. I keep saying the T04B.... Should I look @ something else or is this okay? Desktop dyno says to make 450 I have to be running like 7 PSI... no problem there. I could even turn it down to like 5 if I just want to go from A to B.

Sly.... I would like to talk to you in PMs if you don't mind so you can help me out.

Any btw... I don't see why you guys say all of this about "fabbing work." You are thinking about how to run the pipe, maybe notching a few things, relocating a thing or two, and doing it.

 

to some people "run the pipe, maybe notching a few things, relocating a thing or two" is easy. to most it is not. if you have some experience with work like this and still think it will be easy to do then you are probably right. if you have never done anything similur then most likely it will be harder than you think.

for the horse power level you are shooting for a 6.0 swap with a cam and some bolt on's would probably get you there and be much easier and cheaper but there is nothing like the whistle of a turbo

to answer your questions about fuel system. the fuel pump will goto 400+rwhp. probably 450rwhp so you are fine there. the stock injectors will likely run out a little over 300rwhp so you will need an upgrade there. might as well just get the 43lb injectors that most people go with. they are pleanty big and will leave you with some room to grow if you ever decide to.

 

and as far as tuning, if your really going to be happy with 360rwhp then yes a mail order tune could most likly get you by. he would need to adjust for the injectors, turn on PE sooner and add a little fuel, turn up the line presure for the tranny sooner. several other things but he could probably send you a super safe tune that is leaving 50+hp on the table but would not blow up.

 

Thanks a lot! Good to hear on the pump! Do I need a FMU?

Like I said, I don't have a mandrel bending machine, but my muffler man does and I could give him 300-325 bucks to bend all the pipe I need and help me run and weld it @ his shop. Also, on the pipe I am thinking like welding flanges every few feet of pipe so I can easily take apart the system if needed.
I am really thinking of running it under the front suspension, hugging it real close and bringing it up right in front of the so I can bring it up to where the MAF is located on the K&N FIPK.... and that cuts out all the work of screwing with a new intake tube/hose and MAF placement.

How much are those injectors going to cost btw?

Now please just help me understand how I need to do the oiling system.

Thanks guys!

BTW Parish... when are you going to be in Hot Rod?