I need to know of a shop in central fl that will do my piping for my turbo kit.

 

If you are using steel mandrel bends, you can have just about any muffler shop weld up the bends for you. Simply number and whitness mark each bend, then just sit and help the welder tack them together. Go get some lunch, and by the time you get back, he'll be done. I replaced my steel IC piping with aluminum mandrel bends, and have spent time looking for someone who can do quality high freq Mig, or Tig. If you don't know where to get the piping, check out Road Race Engineering, JC Whitney, or Burns Stainless. Automotive Engineering also typically has Hooker J and U bends in the warehouse, as well.
John

 

Yea mark mcelwain did ur truck right?I saw it its a sick beast.Its a 60 series turbo right?

 

Yep, Mark welded me up. He was talking about getting a Heli-Arc machine, but I don't know if he has done that yet. He welded up the steel piping I got from AE (Hooker piping). The piping was 3 2.5" J bends for $25 a piece. I didn't need much, as use a liquid to air intercooler. I even got a DP out of those bends. I just ordered my Al piping from Burns Stainless. The steel stuff went too long unpainted, and looked terrible. I painted it, but it didn't last too long.

BTW, you were pretty close; my turbo is a T3/T04E Super 50 trim, and I love it!

John

 

50 trim rules the world!!!!!!!!!!!!! btw, whats your whole setup, this has intrigued me for a while, the turbo frontier, sounds cool as hell though

 

I use a Turbonetics T3/T04E ceramic ball bearing Super 50 with a stage III wheel in a .63A/R turbine housing. The flow rating on this turbo is 47lbs/min, which will support 470HP in static flow. I am currently using a modified RevHard cast log style manifold, and a Spearco 2-231 liquid to air intercooler. I have a Deltagate MKII wastegate, and Godzilla BOV. Alminum intercooler piping is from Burns Stainless. I use a Jabsco permanent magnetic drive water pump, an RJS 5 gallon racing fuel cell for water, and Camaro radiator dedicated to just the intercooler. I also picked up a set of electric fans from the junk yard to cool the radiator. I like having the liquid to air setup the way I do, because with the truck, I've got tons of space for everything. The radiator is under the bed at about a 30* angle, and the pump/reservoir are in the truck box, along with the battery I've pulled the equivalent in water weight for the intercooler from the front end, in an effort to effectively equalize the truck's weight distribution; in addition to further front end lightening modifications. The truck still has very little weight over the rear axle, so I'm stuck working to positively affect this.
The inducer diameter of the compressor wheel is 2.122", and the exducer is 3.200". Maximum efficiency of the comp is 78% at 3.0175 pressure ratio moving roughly 33.25lbs/min of airflow; pretty unbelieveable! That pressure ratio equates to about 29.6psi (2.01 bar)!!
You may be able to locate the online compressor map at www.turboneticsinc.com; not to be confused with the standard 50 trim wheel, however.

John

 

Damn i must say this guy know his shit... and he drives a turbo'd pick-em-up.... BADASS!!!!

 

yeah what he said....