More pics.. Ford V8...

Last edited by EBXR8380 on Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Great work there. Only one thing better than a turbo 6 and thats a turbo 8.

This is a quote from Zoom No124 that just came out.

Page 80 "picking the right kind of turbocharger exhaust manifold material is
a genuine catch-22 situation. By that we mean -and this is fact- what tends to
look the goods doesn't end up working the best. Its hard to resist the lure of a polished stainless manifold, so many put this on the top of their list when it comes time to choose a turbocharger system.
The reality is that from a material perspective, there is very little good about stainless steel, particularly the kinds of steel often used for high temperature turbocharger exhaust manifolds. Sit back and have a read of a material data sheet.......
A commonly used material - for the bling factor and its low price - is 316- grade schedule 10 stainless steel. It looks great when polished and is relatively cheapto purchase...... The actual raw data for the material is very scary, though with 316 sched 10 having an intermittent heat rating of 450 deg C and a continuous rating of over 300 deg C. While a 316 stainless manifold will put up with much higher temps showing no obvious side effect, even over short periods of time - the pure physics state that you are indeed irreversibly changing the state of the material.
The indicators of a stainless steel manifold starting to fail are darkness of welds and collector joints....... at this point heat has crystallised the material and no amount of restitching the cracks with a welder will fix it...."


Its a good article and I wholy agree with the author Martin Donnon

this is my mates Turbo EF and his set up

600kw atomic bottom end
Ported head
custom cam
Haltech ecu
Snort Stage 4 700hp kit
Tsunami fuel pump
Garrett AR 70 Turbo

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xt with a little more go!

 

 

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also referred to as hot shortness
heating beyond critical temp changes the grain structure (increases) plus the bigger the manifold the more stress is put on the pipework causing more vibration/movement causing work hardening also.

not that i'm by any means a manifold maker, just a boilermaker. but i'm keen to learn

I just came a little....

took some pics of the turbo setup yesterday.














THE 3 INCH

http://www.theturboforums.com/featured_cars.php

i love the colour of your car is that electric blue?
also if anybodys interested theres a cheap ba turbo engine on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BA-FALCON-XR6-TU ... dZViewItem
also thank you every one for all there pics the cars look insane

the car is blueprint, off the au-ba range, because its aftermarket paint it came out a bit lighter which im happy with. so scared to drive it around with all the d***head underage gangstas in my area

Looking pretty smick there luke!, definite magnet for wankers though- what suburb you in?

it run's a filter, just making a box for it

nice thats very neat,

It's all good guys.

that really neat, Justa 6.

I like how short the path is for the intercooler too. Whats sort of numbers is it running?