turboglenn
15+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 5, 2007
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RIpley,
West Virginia
This is a IHI turbo that had a flat face for a bolt on inlet, I modified the inlet by welding on a piece of AL tubing, then we were left with quite the ugly turbo with a big rectangle name plate and a couple of bolt studs for mounting the OEM inlet to it. After welding it up the customer started telling me how he was going to polish the part with a dremel tool, so to asve him the time i just took the band saw and whaked the mounting studs and nameplate off and then began going from 60 down to 330 grit papers/grinding wheels.
Here's the final result, besides the one gouge in it that was left from the name plate not coming off flush i think it looks okay. Mind you this wasn't a full polish job, I just did it for an extra 30 bucks the customer offered to have me knock the rough casting off and remove the paltes and bolt studs. I think it looks a hell of a lot better than it did to start with, and since i did way more than the customer thought i was going to for the 30 bucks i think he decided to just finish the port work and is going to mount it as is.
I don't expect "oohs and aaaahs" but am rather just posting these because i ran into them on my camera as i was taking pics of mbullet's water tank i'm building....the inside of the compressor inlet is now ported to match the new inlet tube right down to about 3 mm from the inducer fins.
This is for a mazda MX-3 that a local guy has. His goal is to reach some where in the 300 - 350 range on this turbo, the car has a megasquirt on it and is pretty damn fast for no more than it is. Even spinning through the 1/8 mile he still takes cobras down with very little effort... you should see mustang guy's faces when they get smoke by this little econo-box
Here's the final result, besides the one gouge in it that was left from the name plate not coming off flush i think it looks okay. Mind you this wasn't a full polish job, I just did it for an extra 30 bucks the customer offered to have me knock the rough casting off and remove the paltes and bolt studs. I think it looks a hell of a lot better than it did to start with, and since i did way more than the customer thought i was going to for the 30 bucks i think he decided to just finish the port work and is going to mount it as is.
I don't expect "oohs and aaaahs" but am rather just posting these because i ran into them on my camera as i was taking pics of mbullet's water tank i'm building....the inside of the compressor inlet is now ported to match the new inlet tube right down to about 3 mm from the inducer fins.
This is for a mazda MX-3 that a local guy has. His goal is to reach some where in the 300 - 350 range on this turbo, the car has a megasquirt on it and is pretty damn fast for no more than it is. Even spinning through the 1/8 mile he still takes cobras down with very little effort... you should see mustang guy's faces when they get smoke by this little econo-box
