Figured its about time I made one of these and share what a few years of browsing and drooling over everyone else's setup has brought me to.

Little background on the truck, picked it up looking exactly the way it does in the pics almost six years ago from a guy who ran an auto salvage yard in Maryland. Truck was a salvage title with frame damage but a new frame was swapped in and the truck was completely torn down, painted and reassembled. It was my daily driver up until the beginning of this year when I picked up a 2500 as a daily and I finally began to show it some attention.

Longtubes, intake, efans and a blackbear tune was installed and I was hooked. A month or so later, a tr220 cam. I lost a lifter shortly after that and dropped in some new ls7 lifters/shorter pushrods and drove it for another few months before deciding to tear it down for this turbo build. Its been down for three weeks and I plan on having it down maybe another two before it hits the road.

I've bagged an s10 before, drove around a typhoon (nightmare of a money pit) but never built anything from scratch like this before so if you see something in the pictures that isnt right, it probably isn't

Anyways, enough blabbing and on with some pics, even though the turbo is almost done I opened a project thread anyway because the stock 60e is still in there and is not long for this world. I've got plenty more pics of everything so just ask if you're looking for anything in particular.





The daily next to the retired daily

 

Pics of the pipes?

 

The x over and main manifold portion are made from 14ga 2.5" aluminized steel and the downpipe is 16ga 3" aluminized.

Ive got about $250 or so into the hotpipes including shipping/flanges/etc.

 

Wow, for a manifold flip... that looks pretty damn good!!!

Bill

 

I like the way you routed the hot pipes, I think that is how I'm going to build my kit for my '88 Chevy one day.

 

Looks awesome.

The rear of the truck could stand to go down a few inches.

 

Nice work bud!!!

 

Thanks Bill, was just in your catch can thread last week trying to make up my mind before saying screw it and running an oil cap breather. If the smell gets too bad i'll change it up

I've only seen a few guys route the Xover in front. I dont have a lift and there is enough space up front to drive a truck through so I figured why not, makes it easier.

Thanks, I dont know why the pic makes it look so high, it's a 3/5 on a 45 series tire. It was at 4/6 but NJ roads had a problem with that.

Thanks!

 

can you get better pics of the passenger manifold? it seems to be a complete PITA to change plugs coming along pretty damn good man. i like that you took the time to clean your welds up

 

Yeah that was a slight oversight on my part

Trying to work around that EGR bump out on the manifold and things got a little tight. I'll get some better shots this weekend but I think I can manage to wedge a hand in there. Worst case I can pull the downpipe, two vbands and a band clamp and it slides right out. Not ideal but it could be worse.