TURBO KIT

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:34 pm

Bracket made

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burgandy81 · Post by **burgandy81** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:39 am

Hey Orford,

Any updates on this? I really like what I have seen so far......

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:35 am

Today i should finish the center console because i add a boost gauge. The car is running but i will have to wait until April or May before i see what is got.

Pictures tonight.

John

burgandy81 · Post by **burgandy81** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:38 am

Looking forward to the pictures!

Yes, it has been a loooong winter.

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Sun May 11, 2014 11:37 pm

Finally put the car on the road today. Actually leave it to 2 kids used to Megasquirt and tell them: ''Go tune it''. The two guys are the guy at the machine shop and the other one was the one who did the bushings for my GM forged connecting rods. And they both run on Megasquirt. When they came back 1H30 later they said that the rings are break in (The company said one night at the racetrak

). They also said that with 5PSI of boost i can see around 40Hp gain from the setup of last year with dome pistons. A little pinging around 6500RPM so more tuning in that area. The plan is to put a switch to get the boost to 10-12PSI for city driving

and leave it at 5PSI for highway. They also detect a rattle from Under the Hood that was the starter that was loose

The blow off valve seems to be a little small for the turbo so we will try a bigger one.

More to come with more boost

burgandy81 · Post by **burgandy81** » Tue May 13, 2014 11:45 pm

Thanks for the update!

Looking forward to reading more.

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:32 pm

After driving the car for couples hundreds miles, I can say that's the best improvement I made to this car. Forget about dome pistons. Use the stock one with GM forged connecting rod and add a turbo. I'll shoot a video to let you see but before that I have to change all 4 ball joint and adjust the wheel bearing. But trust me, it's very fun

Holshot · Post by **Holshot** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:00 am

ORFORD2004 wrote:After driving the car for couples hundreds miles, I can say that's the best improvement I made to this car. Forget about dome pistons. Use the stock one with GM forged connecting rod and add a turbo. I'll shoot a video to let you see but before that I have to change all 4 ball joint and adjust the wheel bearing. But trust me, it's very fun

Looking GREAT! Keep up the good work... What are you using for engine management? Also, if you can get some videos posted, I would love to hear this beast. Lastly what rods are you using? I know you mentioned they are GM but from what exactly? Thanks!

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:08 am

I use megasquirt II V3.0. The connecting rod are from a 350 because the crank journal is the same. So you can use better connecting rod bearing. The length is a bit shorter but it will lower your compression to around 140 witch is good for the turbo setup. The piston pin bushing has to be remove and replace with a smaller diameter one to fit the Fiat piston pin. The thickness of the GM rod is smaller so you have to made bushing to place on each side of the piston pin. That way, the rod is place on one side of the crank and is driven by the piston and not by the crank.

The good news is that I have a extra set of connecting rod and pin bushing. the only thing that you will need is the bushing that you place on each side of the piston pin. Anyone interested???

burgandy81 · Post by **burgandy81** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:52 pm

Video!.....video!.......video!......video! (crowd chanting)

looking forward to seeing more!

Cheers,

Jordan

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:53 pm

Today we adjust the boost to around 10-12PSI. I send the kids to adjust the upper parts of the tables because of the increase in the boost. They came back and said that the car have around 200-250HP. I can tell you that it's almost scary

I can say that I have now more than enough power

Go Pro charged and ready to go. I only need the time and a quiet road because 90MPH is coming fast

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:07 pm

Finally

Sorry for the quality it was made on my iphone holding in my hand.

XDarkSyntaX · Post by **XDarkSyntaX** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:18 am

Nice...Thinking about doing that to my 1980 spider FI...Looking around for a kit myself maybe next month..In the middle of fuel tank restoration at the moment.

ORFORD2004 · Post by **ORFORD2004** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:37 pm

The headers I made from SS crack at more than one place so now I have almost nothing in boost. No problem because the summer is over here and Mark have now a cast iron headers made.

joelittel · Post by **joelittel** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:01 am

Any updates on this project?

I’d thinking about building one for my car and would love to resurrect the conversation.

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