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Old Jan 28, 2011 | 07:58 AM
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Lookin good man, nice project.
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by 03sierraslt
Lookin good man, nice project.
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As for an update, I have started a few new hobbies in the last two weeks which has pulled me away from working on the charger. One of the new hobbies is carbon fiber. I need some non metal custom stuff and I cant mold or weld plastic, carbon fiber and fiberglass is the next best thing I think... I've got a ton of supplies on the way and have made a few chunks of practice carbon. I plan on making the center console out of carbon as well as other things. Ill post pictures of the aspect of the build later.

My other new hobby is machining. In the aim of improving my tooling abilities, I recently acquired a small bench top style drill/mill. It is a very old Jet-16. It should help with any of the milling need for the charger project, once I figure out how to use the thing.... lol I might start a thread in our tooling section after I figure a few things out with it...

Here is the titanic-esk drill/mill, It nearly killed me and a friend of mine when we unloaded it. It is a pig.....



I milled a 3/8 bolt head down to 10mm so I can mount the four jaw chuck to my rotary table. I know I could have bought an allen cap screw, but why? I need the practice anyway.



I also managed to fit in a small amount of header work last night..



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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 12:24 PM
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Nice, cool build...I'd love to get my hands on a 72 plymouth road runner and put a LS2/6 speed in it...just to be different.

Let us know how the car runs and what kind of power it puts down
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 01:48 PM
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Nice, cool build...I'd love to get my hands on a 72 plymouth road runner and put a LS2/6 speed in it...just to be different.

Let us know how the car runs and what kind of power it puts down
Thanks, I checked out your conversion... make me wish I had stuck with my original plan of an LS charger....
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 08:13 AM
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I got number four pretty much done....




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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 05:19 PM
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Well it's time to start welding

I also raised number six primary to gain "air" room for the poor shock bushing..


























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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 05:38 PM
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Looks like a snake orgy.
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Old Feb 22, 2011 | 12:26 AM
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Damn...

Where are you gonna route or place the WG's?
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeGyver
Looks like a snake orgy.
Originally Posted by Spoolin
Damn...

Where are you gonna route or place the WG's?
Thanks guys...

The waste gates are going to be mounted to the inside of each turbo, (more aesthetically pleasing). I had planed on a complex split pipe thing like I did with the S475 set-up...
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 11:11 AM
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those headers look 1000x better than your truck's set...keep at it!
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