My project car, compound turbocharged (non dsm)

[turbo23]

Thought I'd share some of my fab work with you guys, this is my 2.3l ford powered 87 thunderbird. All the work was done by me and my father. thought you guys would like it. heres some pics

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those are just some of the "highlight" pics of the project so far. here is a link to the album in my photobucket.. theres over 100 pics and a couple vids from over the years.

 

[99gst_racer]

Shotgun!

 

[Zdrummer15]

That's sick. What's the car being built for?

 

[turbo23]

street/strip set up.. should be pretty fun on the street!! can't wait, will be running mathonal also

 

[GRAVEDIGGER]

Holy wastegate! That thing looks huge! Nice build, but I don't see a link to photobucket for the pics or vids

 

[99gst_racer]

Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket

 

[turbo23]

damn paul.. treed' me!!

 

[viperlp01]

HAHA is this Tyler? Must be because that has to be the sickest 2.3 in michigan. That looks SICK man. I hope to see it soon. Whens the ETA?

That first turbo confuses me.. It looks like the exhaust from the engine goes into the exit of the hotside?? Can you link me to that hotside so I can figure it out ..

 

[turbo23]

yeah its me.. whats going on john?? thanks for the comments guys!

 

[flyineagletsi]

That first turbo confuses me.. It looks like the exhaust from the engine goes into the exit of the hotside?? Can you link me to that hotside so I can figure it out ..

Are you looking at the HUGE a$$ wastegate? It kinda threw me off too until I looked twice.

 

[BLINKY619]

Are you looking at the HUGE a$$ wastegate? It kinda threw me off too until I looked twice.

i thought it was a turbo at first.... once i looked again i was like daaauuummmm thats big...

 

[turboglenn]

Much respect to anyone building the good 'ole ford 2.3!! I still have a stock t3 flanged turbocoupe manifold hangin in my garage to remind me that one day i'm building a SICK SVO copy road race car Or at least putting the driveline in soemthing like n austin healy or something old and light

more pics, more specs please

EDIT: although i do have to wonder how the lag would be with that much header between head and turbo

 

[turbo23]

when we designed the header, it was about compromise, we chose to have more length with gradual bends, rather then a shorter length with less than optimum bends and collectors... i've seen much longer header setups work perfectly, so for me, its really no concern. and yeah the 2.3l engine is old school, but they're fun to work on!! what do u wanna know about it?? I could go on all day with specs

 

[Kevin Jewer]

This project is relevant to my interests, very nice!

 

[TofastForU_99]

this thing looks crazy... cant wait to see it run... we should race

 

[peon_slayer]

i have a 83 mustang gt turbo that runs the same motor, id be interested in more info on this build, could u pm with more details

 

[#40Fan]

Am I seeing this right? You have the BIG WG plumbed to feed the back turbo? Then using the internal WG of the back turbo to exhaust out to the open?

Or is there another external under the back turbo?

 

[turbo23]

there is another gater under the t66, here is a better shot of it

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[dsm-onster]

Love the turboford platform. Head flows for sh!t. But the block is STOUT. And there's so much ROOM in the fox body to work on the motor. This project looks like something I dreamed of back when I still had my '85 1/2 TC. This is beautiful!!!! I love it.

 

[turbo23]

Thanks man!! yeah these heads are horrible!! this one is one of the best following stock valve dia. heads around.. and it only flow 225cfm @ .600 lift on the intake and 215 on the ext. @ .600... The best head flow ive seen is 250 @ .600 with oversized valves.. the esslinger heads flow well but they're 1500$ bare....

 

[GSXSixteenG]

Looks great, any update on dyno numbers? What kind of intercooler setup are you going to be running? water/meth?

 

[99gst_racer]

He plans on running with no intercooler and straight methanol.

 

[dsmdeliveryboy]

Completely ridiculous.. I love it