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My turbo already had a t4 flange I wanted to use a V-band but I already had a perfectly good turbo so had to make it work any way I could.

More than anything I wanted to challenge myself and build a kit from scratch. I'm early into my engineering career and wanted to do a project on the side to practice my skills i'm still developing.

It actually works very well once you fine tune everything believe it or not.

Look at previous post for haters and doubters such as yourself that don't know anything :)

So hey kits been on the car for a while now I'm making 600whp reliably on about 21 psi. I usually keep at at 19 psi just because 600 feels like a lot and at 19psi its a fun amount of fast that's still safe. I've had 0 issues and have put about 7k miles on the kit so far and everything's holding...

Yeah I personally liked precision but I’ve experienced issues with them before. I would 100% go with a Garett turbo or a company that makes turbos based on garetts design (like boost labs).

Boostlab turbos are made in their own shop. Pulsar works if you’re on a tight budget but if you can afford anything else 100% don’t get pulsar.

Honestly don’t get pulsar I’ve had a few turbos from them they are trash. Get a real g35-1050 or a boostlabs one. I have a boostlab turbo now and actually met the owner and took a look around their shop great guys. I would get the one with water cooling option and you can just use the turbo...

6466 with a 0.92 or bigger housing should be able to push those numbers pretty good. A 6766 would 100% but low end it kinda sucks for street use.

I would 100% recommend it no need to go larger whatsoever unless you want 700+ whp with fueling and a built trans. I don’t have any e85 near me but my tuner said with it and no fueling upgrades on a 6466 I would be making low 600 range maybe more if lucky. Right now on pump gas I’m estimating...

When I developed the manifold it was extremely flaky. What I did was get a very long flexible but semi stiff rod and wrapped it in sand paper. Cleaned the inside of the pipes very well and tested them for leaks. Had no leaks and was happy with the results. I also used a cheap Chinese turbo at...

I have so many updates, I forgot to update this thread. I’ll work on getting a huge update post but long story short, Kit works amazing out about 4k miles on it so far as my daily driver!

How I made the charge pipe: First I did a evap system delete and got rid of all those lines. Everything that needs to be vented is now vented to atmosphere. Extra lines were plugged off. After that I did a water pump delete and got rid of the water pump system. The water pump isn’t necessary...

Actually I’m about $1,000 invested in this and I have everything besides a few odd things I forgot. Total in the end I’m estimating just under $1,500. I can do a rough cost breakdown at the end too.

Okay here’s the final and full design for the top mount two port manifold. It uses 304 stainless steel pipes 1.5 inch diameter 10 gauge thickness welded together. Attached to the top is a t4 flange and underneath is a tail 44mm waste gate that will eventually route down or connect to the...

Thanks still gotta do literally everything else have only welded together the manifold so far! I’m doing a wrap around it right now to prevent some heat soaking will post pictures of the full manifold when I’m done !

Update: Big update today welded up the turbo manifold and did a rough install of the turbo and the waste gate today

I’m mostly done with welding it together and the flux welder turned out great. It was tough to not melt the pipes but it got the job done. Welds don’t look that clean but they aren’t that bad. I will post later with pictures welding up the final parts of it today!

Would love to know why? I’ve seen some videos where people break down how it works compared to regular welds and do cross sections and such. Only downside to flux is it has a tendency to melt the metal a little more and be a little messy.

Update: disconnected and removed everything from the hot side of the car Taking measurements and starting to weld the turbo manifold. Trying to figure out what all the lines I disconnected are for. Other than this my turbo doesn’t use coolant so I’m capping of the coolant lines. Not sure if I...