It's finally in the car and running. But I had to modify my plans slightly, lol.
I had the car down for 8 weeks while making the change from the old hybrid to this new one. I had a OBX SS exh manifold but it moved the turbo over to the PS pump to far and I couldn't turn the exh pipe down fast enough. So that may have to go on later. I put a Mexican exh manifold on a 2004 SRT head with square ports. but before you get all knotted up, it matches a lot better than I thought it would. I had to port the top two corners of each port on the exh manifold to get it too match. But this got the car running this year instead of next year.
Yes and still a stock turbo, for NOW.
This one is a 89 turbo II 2.2 with Venolia pistons. I made new smaller intake and now I can not only see the oil filter and dizzy, but can actually get to them.
The 2004 head is using cooper tubes in the 3 oil drain lines, which come out below the exhaust manifold. I fabbed a dual layer SS heat shield with exhaust wrap in between the SS layers. So far its working!! You can see it in pics.
I used srt4 rods which meant a I had to use a .075" thick special cometic head gasket. This raised the head up enough that I couldn't get to 249 belt to work with the small 2.5 tall blk tensioner in the stock location. So I had to move the tensioner AND I added a stationary pulley from a 96 2.4L in there as well. Then this required a new pulley cover.
Also using a separate coolant thermo housing(stock 2004 set up) so I can eliminate the annoying coolant seepage when using the one piece coolant housing intake set up.
Anyone got a turbo for sale cheap??
Thanks
Andy
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Originally Posted by turbovanman
