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Received the new turbo today fromRobert at
Forced Performance who has done a great job
rebuilding the turbo in 18T trim. I am excited
to see what this new turbo will do combined
with the new ECU. The results will be posted
in the coming days. He has done some "special"
work to the turbine side and match ported
the turbo to the exhaust manifold. While the
manifold was there we had him drill and tap
it for the EGT sensor. The work looks real
clean and tight. |
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| This
is the stock exhaust manifold that I cleaned
up the internal castings a bit and also polished
the rough outer casting. |
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| Tired
of those broken exhaust manifold studs? Working
with Dave at Lesco and ARP, we were able to
sort out some really nice stainless stud replacements
for the manifold. They have a nice allen key
for placement of the stud and 12 point nuts
(sorry for the fuzzy pic). If you are wondering
what the orange looking stuff is, it is copper
based Wurth's anti-sieze that works at high
temps. |
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| This
is how the JT system looks when it arrives
in stock condition. However, after it gets
back from the ceramic coaters, it looks like
a real diamond. |
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is a close up of the down pipe after ceramic
coating. |
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| Here
is the JT/Engstrom exhaust once I got it back
from the ceramic coater's. The only problem
that I encountered with the installation was
that the downpipe would not mount to the turbo
housing without first removing the lower mounting
stud and re-installing once the downpipe was
in place. I have noticed a quicker spool-up
of the turbo and the exhaust note is lower
and slightly more audible, but not loud. |
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is the 3" race cat with a pic of the interior. |
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