is the ss autocrhome 1.8 manifold a pos?
thanks everyone. I'm really frugal, however I don't want to skimp on turbo, manifold, and dp because of what I went through on the last turbo system that went terribly wrong.
Right now I am leaning toward the hks manifold and buying another mig and building my own, very ugly, 3" dp and exhuast.
What kinda cars can I find in a salvage yard with turbo's that will fit on the HKS manifold?
The old saying is: "Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick two."
From your posts it sounds like you don't have a lot of time. If you've only been at home for 33 days since 09/05, do you want to spend that precious time fixing a cracked manifold or DP? When you only have a couple of days a year to enjoy the car do you want to ruin that with a blown junkyard turbo?
If you can't part with the $$$, then leave the car N/A. If you can, get on the phone with FM or BEGI and call it a day. This is NOT a difficult descision to make.
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This sounds like a very resonable way to approach it. Then you say this:
and this:
Do you want ghetto or not? My opinion is this, if you have the bucks and no time buy a complete solution. If you have lots of time but not a lot of bucks build it is cheap as you can, knowing that you'll be wrenching on the car a lot. If you enjoy doing the wrenching then by all means have at it.
The old saying is: "Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick two."
From your posts it sounds like you don't have a lot of time. If you've only been at home for 33 days since 09/05, do you want to spend that precious time fixing a cracked manifold or DP? When you only have a couple of days a year to enjoy the car do you want to ruin that with a blown junkyard turbo?
If you can't part with the $$$, then leave the car N/A. If you can, get on the phone with FM or BEGI and call it a day. This is NOT a difficult descision to make.
and this:
Do you want ghetto or not? My opinion is this, if you have the bucks and no time buy a complete solution. If you have lots of time but not a lot of bucks build it is cheap as you can, knowing that you'll be wrenching on the car a lot. If you enjoy doing the wrenching then by all means have at it.
The old saying is: "Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick two."
From your posts it sounds like you don't have a lot of time. If you've only been at home for 33 days since 09/05, do you want to spend that precious time fixing a cracked manifold or DP? When you only have a couple of days a year to enjoy the car do you want to ruin that with a blown junkyard turbo?
If you can't part with the $$$, then leave the car N/A. If you can, get on the phone with FM or BEGI and call it a day. This is NOT a difficult descision to make.
The last turbo system was a kit from ATP. I am confident that although not world class visually, I can get a mig with flux core and do a good enough job on the dp and exhaust to be reliable. People here think the hks manifold is reliable. I'm not going to spend $3k on a turbo system for this car, just not going to.
Hopefully I'll have a job in town soon.
I'm going with cheap and reliable, not fast...well I hope the car is fast but the process will take some time.
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You can get a rebuild kit from gpopshop.com for less than $80 complete with everything and do it yourself. Think they're more like $65 actually.
The balancing is the trick, is your friend going to get it balanced as well for that price?
The balancing is the trick, is your friend going to get it balanced as well for that price?
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I have the JGS on a frontwheel drive, the turbo hangs off it, so it it holding all the weight, there is no flex pipe in the DP either, been there for two years now... having a Lincoln 185 helps...
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Be careful, thats my home town your talking about..
-Michael-
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He doesn't have any turbo this small, or I'd just get it from him. I may work something out with him to do the tubing.
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