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Green Machine 1g n/a to turbo

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Looks like it’s coming together well! If the non turbo cams are still good don’t hesitate to opt for those, when we had my car on the dyno with a completely stock non turbo 6 bolt long block and a 16g the non turbo cams seemed to have carried out a bit further than what would typically be seen with “turbo cams”. It almost negates the age old theory that one of the turbo cams is slightly more aggressive than it’s non turbo counterpart. Wether that’s true or not I can’t say but was definitely interesting none the less, and we found out either way the non turbo cams were good for 283 at the wheels on a low reading Mustang dyno on pump gas. Need any help with the non turbo to turbo differences don’t hesitate to ask, from my vehicle profile below you can see I’ve been down that road before.
 
How did you do the main seal with it on the stand? I was wondering how people went about that when I finally got mine on the stand. Seems like the one thing you can’t really get to properly.
You have to take it off or at least that’s easier. Lol. Lift it with the hoist, so you can get the engine stand mount off and then put the housing on it and then put it back in the stand.

Looks like it’s coming together well! If the non turbo cams are still good don’t hesitate to opt for those, when we had my car on the dyno with a completely stock non turbo 6 bolt long block and a 16g the non turbo cams seemed to have carried out a bit further than what would typically be seen with “turbo cams”. It almost negates the age old theory that one of the turbo cams is slightly more aggressive than it’s non turbo counterpart. Wether that’s true or not I can’t say but was definitely interesting none the less, and we found out either way the non turbo cams were good for 283 at the wheels on a low reading Mustang dyno on pump gas. Need any help with the non turbo to turbo differences don’t hesitate to ask, from my vehicle profile below you can see I’ve been down that road before.
Thanks for that tip about the cams. I keep that in mind. 👍
 
You have to take it off or at least that’s easier. Lol. Lift it with the hoist, so you can get the engine stand mount off and then put the housing on it and then put it back in the stand.
That's what I was thinking would be obvious, just making sure you didn't have a work around based on the pic and description. Guess I took it like you did it on the stand somehow LOL.
 
K so, new timing belt, timing belt covers on, valve cover, turbo thermo housing, cas and turbo water pipe.
The water pipe had to modded be causing I was going to keep the N/T oil filter housing so I had to block of the coolant port same on the thermo housing.
Also the IM with a homemade egr block off.
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I had ordered a 2g exhaust mani, a 14b, stock IC and pipes, stock turbo intake and all the oil and coolant lines. I already had a 1g o2 housing. I ported the inlet of the waste gate in the turbine housing a bit to make sureI wouldn’t get any boost creep. I was going to run a bigger full exhaust and stock boost. In my box of nuts and bolts I still had a transition ring for the 6cm turbine housing so I didn’t port that away. And the step was still in the manifold too so it worked out perfect.
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One thing I’ve been dreading since the start is the exhaust. If I stayed n/t I had to redo at least the down pipe cause it fell apart. If I went turbo I’d need an entire new exhaust. And 1g turbo exhaust even new aren’t easy to find nowadays. First thing I thought is that I could build at least the start of the down pipe on the engine stand. I’d have lots of room. So I got some pipes and flanges and put one together and had it fitting perfect. Or so I thought…
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The downpipe I fabbed up was pointed completely in the wrong direction,LOL. So with limited options I got a 2g AWD downpipe and made it fit. With very little effort I might add. The cat back came from a company called Tru Bendz. You could get a 1g fwd exhaust from 2” to 3” in SS or aluminumized but that it. They didn’t have one for any other model. Which was weird but oh well. Also it was just the bends and hangers. You had to fit and weld it. To finish it up, I put on a Megan muffler on and that was that.
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Looks good i remeber doing my first swap i was so excited, i remember justin built my first 14b it was fun on a gm maf translator and wideband.
 
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