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 Back at it again...Turbo LS Teaser 
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Dont worry im sure come next winter I will be building another LOL. Car ADD.

To answer costs here is a rough estimate

Hotside piping/vbands/flexpipe- $400ish
Wastegates on sale -$450
BOV on sale- $100
Injectors on sale $305
Turbo “ebay GT45” $250
Turbo Blanket- $40
DEI Header wrap-$150ish
Intercooler-$135
Intercooler piping/vband and cast elbow- $175ish

$1700

I built the kit around the GT45 knowing I would want to upgrade to a T4 Borg warner S475 or S480. since theya re similar size. The T4 S475 is around $850usd. With the way the build is taking off I wish I would bought it already lol.

Looking to buy a lot more shit in the upcoming months. I got my trans mount made this weekend so the 4l80e is going out to be built soon, ordering a PTC single disk converter, SFI flexplate, TCI trans controller and looking into a plug and play EFIsourse MS3-gold box to control the motor. I already have a stock harness 90% finished but I figure I may bite the bullet and get it done with before day care bills come at summer end lol. Working lots of OT these days.

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Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:19 pm
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Wow looking over the costs its pretty sad I have almost as much into my gauges as I do my turbo setup lol

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Thats great!

It will give people like me realistic expectations on the cost of horsepower/kickasscar parts per dollar

My own turbo project involves a 180HP turbo V8..lol


Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:41 pm
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Car is ALMOST ready to fire. Pulled the tune from the PCM, need to work on a custom OS to get it fired up. Been a LONG time since I went that in depth with EFIlive so im sure it will take me all week to get it fired up. I do have a leak at the fuel rails that I need to address. However I tapped the rails with a mallet this morning and the injectors popped in. So I may be good to at least fire it up then mess with the brakets I made.

Gauges are all wrapped up though!

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Wow I havnt posted on here in a long time!

Car has been running great, recently I had my balancer bolt back off. I ended up pinning the balancer since it was a bit messed up and same with the crank. I designed up a guide tool at work and made it out of Hardened H13 and drill the crank with a carbide drill. Waiting on the ARP bolt but the oil in the car didnt look promising. i saw some bearing material. Hope the motor will last the rest of the season then decide on what I wanna do. Been debating parting with the turbo stuff and going LS3 6 speed. but thats some pretty good coin. I may end up just forging the 5.3L maybe bore it to an iron 346. Who knows. Still thinking 6 speed though.

I got my new seats in this weekend as well. Also ordered a nice Nardi Steering wheel which should be in this week.

I also made some spoiler extensions I was planning on making a group buy for but more tire kickers than interest. The white one with the third brake like is only on by 2 way tape as I wanted to make sure im happy with it before I drill holes in my spoiler. I think I prefer the non brake like version. However I have other plans for this winter which may need to be done before I go ahead with bolting it on. (diffuser etc)

Anyways there is my small update and a few new pics of the car.

Jay


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I absolutely love this thing man! Yes to 6-speed haha!

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Looking good as always dude! Love the Nardi's..


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Lots of respect for your turbo builds over the years. Great Job!

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Thanks guys, Im hoping to keep the updates going, I kinda stopped as I thought they were killing the forum. I got the car running Thursday night, oil pressure was all good idle but have yet to take it for a spin as I was gone camping for the weekend. My Nardi wheel is in as well just need to grab it from my buddy.

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Motor seems to be fine! Did a couple quick blasts around. Amazed what changing the seats and steering wheel did to the car. I literally feel like I'm in a go-cart. Steering feels nicer and more firm.

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jay_rich wrote:
Motor seems to be fine! Did a couple quick blasts around. Amazed what changing the seats and steering wheel did to the car. I literally feel like I'm in a go-cart. Steering feels nicer and more firm.

Jay

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Just Wicked dude, love it.

Did you do the astro/jeep steering shaft mod?

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I did not. It is something I have been wanting to do since the Header is pretty damn close to the rag joint. Close enough I had to cut the dust shield off. Planning on a Kmemeber anyways so at that time I will probably swap it. I missed out on a good T56 combo yesterday. Debated to long and it sold on me :(. About to buy another combo though!

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T56 with tick master and monster clutch on the way! Complete swap. Pedals to driveshaft!.

Guess I'll have a stout 4l80e combo for grabs soon!

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T56 will be sweet, are you still thinking about going LS3?

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For now the motor seems to be fine. I think down the road it may happen. At least the trans I want till be in the car, a long block is a simple swap!

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