Hey, folks! Time for 'Dimer to chime-in again... This time, it's to do with turbo-charging:
A friend of mine has gotten rather apt at handling a MIG-welder, and says he'd like to build a hot-air turbo system for my truck ('98 S-10, LN2/auto). I know being inter-cooled is the way to go, but he'd like to give it a try & see what... if anything... can be gained. Perhaps later we'll arrange some air-water setup, and run Evan's NPG in it. But for now, it's all hot-air. (Ha-ha-ha)
I've seen someone here do a remote-mount on his wife's j-car, along with many others going non-remote, so I know you guys have the insight. The first clue I have to go with on size is T3/T4 flanges, from the brief layout I've read as part of another '98-later S-truck owner's sig on another forum... Which also included how he went with a '97 cam. So basically, I needs details. I haven't time to search, so anything to with this anyone can post here will be taken into consideration.
Thank-you, and here's to the org!
Go beyond the "bolt-on".
there are a couple of build threads exclusively for S10 remote setups[ to front of motor] on S10FORUM.COM. go to search and you'll find them.if your'e interested in that type setup pm me i have one for sale.
MadJack wrote:Yeah, s10forum.com has a larger number of members and more info than the other forums. Nothing against the others (s10planet 
), just not the volumes of info on the s10forum.
One example is ablues10's and 2lowan2slow's builds. ablues10 is on here also, I don't recall his screen name though.
I just checked out that link, and I am still sitting here laughing at what I read..... Those poor engines! Those screenshots made me laugh and cry at the same time.... I remember talking to one of them on HPT, but apparently he did not take my advice..... Live and learn I guess.....
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QWK LN2 (needs an @ss whoopin) wrote:MadJack wrote:Yeah, s10forum.com has a larger number of members and more info than the other forums. Nothing against the others (s10planet ), just not the volumes of info on the s10forum.
One example is ablues10's and 2lowan2slow's builds. ablues10 is on here also, I don't recall his screen name though.
I just checked out that link, and I am still sitting here laughing at what I read..... Those poor engines! Those screenshots made me laugh and cry at the same time.... I remember talking to one of them on HPT, but apparently he did not take my advice..... Live and learn I guess.....
OMG what the hell are they doing?!?!!?
wow just wow, people never cease to amaze me.
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Wow holy @!#$. Bet that square tube piping helped him a bunch! EBay turbo and square tube piping. Now ive seen it all. Just wow.
QWK LN2 (needs an @ss whoopin) wrote:MadJack wrote:Yeah, s10forum.com has a larger number of members and more info than the other forums. Nothing against the others (s10planet ), just not the volumes of info on the s10forum.
One example is ablues10's and 2lowan2slow's builds. ablues10 is on here also, I don't recall his screen name though.
I just checked out that link, and I am still sitting here laughing at what I read..... Those poor engines! Those screenshots made me laugh and cry at the same time.... I remember talking to one of them on HPT, but apparently he did not take my advice..... Live and learn I guess.....
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I really don't see anything wrong with what they did. It's not a far cry from some of the designs for Diesel turbo adapters. It's also done with heavy gauge tubing. Considering the quick 90deg turns from the flanges, we're talking about an adapter for an already poor manifold design(i.e. the log manifold). Were I to see this with a tubular manifold (such as a ramhorn or equal length), then yeah, I would definitely agree that it's terrible. If the problem has to do with square tubing, then show me some flow data that supports why it's insufficient to use in an exhaust. The only "bad" thing I see is that the length of the tubing and the weight of the turbo puts a significant shear stress/bending moment on the bolts going between the manifold and adapter. The adapter could really use some extra support near the turbo to counter this.
Regarding the guys competence with tuning: from the little that I read of that thread, it seams he doesn't really know what he's doing and/or is new to tuning...so, that much I can agree with
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Id say the turbulence in that square tube won't.help. its cheap admit it. If you make an adaptor do it right the first time and that imo is a far cry from right.
From what I can see, the inside edges appear to be chamfered, so I would suspect that whatever turbulence you get from this square tubing would be negligible compared to the horrid pulse interference issues inherent with a log manifold design. The biggest flow issue is the flanges not being tangential to the flow in the pipe, which will hurt spool...but you're right, it is cheap. I agree with that.
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