Re: 1985 Shelby Charger Turbo
Glad to hear that you have it running. If there is oil coming out of the exhaust, I would pull the plugs to see if they are covered in oil. If they are dry and the exhaust takes a while before it starts puffing smoke, I would suspect the turbo. If the plugs are oily I would do a compression test.
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yeah it does take like a minute or so for the smoke, i hope its just a gasket and not the turbo but if its both then time to replace
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yeah it does take like a minute or so for the smoke, i hope its just a gasket and not the turbo but if its both then time to replace
If it takes until the exhaust is hot enough to burn the oil, you are almost certainly leaking oil out of the seal on the turbine side of the turbo.
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so it must not be a bad headgasket? because im planning on buying a gasket set
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so it must not be a bad headgasket? because im planning on buying a gasket set
You would need to do a compression test also to determine that. Either way it will be easiest for you to pull the head to change the turbo so you will need the HG.
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got it, ill buy the set and check on both the head and turbo
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also to put a bov, it must on the air intake after the throttle body, correct?
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also to put a bov, it must on the air intake after the throttle body, correct?
It must be between the turbo and TB in a blow through type of setup. You will need to convert the car to TII if it hasn't already been done for one. If it hasn't been done, you don't need one.
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i wouldnt need even if i have after market internals and such?
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i wouldnt need even if i have after market internals and such?
No. In the stock TI log setups there is nothing between the turbo and intake to restrict the flow when the throttle closes like there is in the latter TI and TII setups eg. the throttle body.
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now i understand! thanks for being such a great help, a friend of mine with a 4.6 v8 with a 1/4 of 13.80 wants to race me now, lol typical trash talking ford owners
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planning on getting a stage 1 ecu upgrade, 803 injectors and f3 camshaft
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just like in the pm and to everyone else, im buying parts here and thereto build up my block
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Cam is the last thing I would be looking for. I would look to upgrade to t2 and be putting a big turbo and ported upper end before even looking at getting a cam. The most I would cam the car is putting a roller tbi cam in it.
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heard about the tbi roller cams and how they work wonders:hail:
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You would need to get the rockers for the roller cam as well. Cant use slider rockers with a roller cam.
a 13.80 out of a 4.8 is hardly fast... There are plenty of guys on here with street tuned L-Bodies running faster then that. Two of my local guys are running low 13's on daily driven cars.. a good T2 swap and an intercooler and a bit of tuning (smec upgrade or chipped LM) and you can easily take the stang.
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ive talked to a guy on the other dodge website and he gave me tips on how to run 12s, stay tuned on my parts for want thread, ive been working this whole week, tomorrow is my friday and ill get to a wrenching!
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http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/9...2887504852.jpg
some photoshop mobile using android, cylinder head is out and the gasket is ----, im going to take a look at the seals on the turbo now
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If you are going to pull the turbo apart you may as well plunk down the $100 for the kit to rebuild it. Some of the seals are pretty delicate as it is so taking apart a 20 year old turbo is a bit of a risk IMO.