Wazman's NB8a

AB7 · Postby **AB7** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:34 am

dorifta wrote:
NMX516 wrote:^^ It's the air temp sensor.

do we need it? im guessing it can just dangle close to the mouth of the pod?

edit: will this do?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-SILICON-BEND ... 286.c0.m14

Yes you do need it, I drilled the silicone hose and put the rubber grommet.
In my case I put it close to the TB.

Wazman, nice work!!!

wazman · Postby **wazman** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:23 am

^^^^ Yeah i just let mine sit in the engine bay in front of the pod filter.

Finally got some bits together for something important.........

The flanges are 12mm stainless steel. The bends are CAST stainless steam pipe bends.
I didn't want it to crack in 12 months......hence the steam pipe

here looks good.....just allow enough room for a gtrs later on :roll:

Give my house mate a ccokie and away we go.....

bolt the flanges in place and weld some temp braces to hold the turbo exhaust flange in position, so the bends can be jigsawed into position.

The fitting up of all the bends will be later..... very labor intensive..... stay tuned

dorifta · Postby **dorifta** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:20 am

How did your housemate exactly learn all this it's bloody amazing.

Secondly, is he looking for an apprentice lol

Postby **Okibi** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:45 am

Is he going to try and make an equal-length manifold or just adding a bit of distance between the turbo and the exhaust valves?

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:29 am

awesome welding mask.

Szemen · Postby **Szemen** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:59 pm

Man Your housemates have some skill! Can't wait to see it completed.

philz · Postby **philz** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:06 pm

Will definately be keeping an eye on this turbo install.

Remember to take lots of pics!!!

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:42 pm

another great post - tks for sharing!

GS · Postby GS » Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:15 pm

Looking good mate.

Out of interest, are you going to 'clock' the turbo housing to spin the outlet around? At the moment the it appears to be pointing at an angle towards the bonnet?

wazman · Postby **wazman** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:39 pm

The turbo's rotation will stay as is....... due to the actuator mounting position. The hot pipe should be fairly easy to make from there.

I'll be cutting and he will welding......We will do our best to keep the runners the same length.

Viski (my house mate) is a welder by trade...... so this stuff is like coming home from work to do more work.........which i'm sure he thanks me for :roll:

rxmx · Postby **rxmx** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:31 pm

Just read all 9 pages of your build, awesome work...

Looking forward to seeing this finished. Did you purchase your manifold flange and steam pipe locally??

buz 138 · Postby **buz 138** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:59 pm

yeah nice thread! i also just read all 9 pages.
i'll be keeping an eye on this!

many pics are needed for the next part

wazman · Postby **wazman** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:06 am

Viski (my house mate) got the flanges cut at his work.....cost a slab of beer

the bends he got from a stainless specialty place. He said if this one is not a pain in the butt to make he might make a jig and we can sell a few if people are interested........wont be cheap though.... bends were around $30 each..... cant remember atm exact how much....

I'll try get as many pics as i can though he is camera shy :roll:

thanks for the positive feed back..... hope to have progress this week :wink: