i've been planning on doing a pinto turbo for about 4 years now since i had my old capri, got a few bits together then but never finished it

now ive got a sierra and i've nearly got all the bits to do it

heres the car



i made my manifold today

its not pretty but bloody strong





my intercooler, just fits nice in front of the sierra rad with the ports coming out in the right place in the bay





my turbos and other bits, one turbo for mocking it all up and testing then i'll change it, theres also a fuel pressure regulator there off a renault 5 GTT, this is so the carb allways has fuel pressure higher than the boost



the boost will be getting blown down the top of my 38DGAS



i should be making the plenum for the top of the carb on friday so i'll keep the updates coming

thanks for looking

 

Thats a heavy duty turbo manifold.When you gonna start,will follow this one

 

the flow not be very smooth through manifold,good look tho mate & hope it all works out.

 

looking forward to watching this progress. Hope it all goes well, and remember to take pictures of every single stage, guys like me love that sort of thing lol

 

well i'm going to make the carb top plenum on friday, find myself a bosch type out of tank fuel pump then hopefuly start assembling it early next week

 

this could be interesting!..good to see something a little different

 

keep an eye on this

 

i like this

 

love it!!!

 

looks a good one as people have sed keeping an eye on this one.

 

i've been telling myself i'm going to get it done for the last 6 months, i just got stuck in last week and bought a few parts

just need a fuel pump now, i might just go the scrap yard and get an injection tank

then its just odds and sods like pipes and jubilee clips but i've got some 2 inch pipe to make solid boost pipes out of, i might tidy the bay up a bit while i'm at it lol

check out my ghetto pcv valve

 

i made this yesterday

 

How you going to seal that to prevent boost leak?

 

i'm going to find some decent rubber to make a gasket and the bolts have rubber washers on them

also silicone

 

looking good.

A bit off topic but the big case full of spanners and wrenches looks like a good tool set, what make is it? Quite fancy one like that with everythink all in one box.

 

its a crescent set, Ł75 from cosco

its got loads in it, great for keeping in the car

this is the same set

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Crescent-211pc...item3ca9911c98

 

looks awesome for Ł75. Are the tools pretty goood quality? (sorry to take you off topic lol)

 

yeah they are very good, lifetime garentee aswell if i remember right

only thing i have against it is that there is a set of deep sockets but no deep 10mm

 

its on and working, didnt have time to put the intercooler on as i need to use the car, and i havnt put the proper fuel pump and regulator on yet so it backs off on boost but still, a good start

 

excellent, not a lot left to do then

 

awesome. How much of a difference over stock?

 

that was quick

 

looking good though,eager to see what it goes like

 

God only checked this the other day your not hanging about are ya!!

 

nice - now what it like

 

Is that a stock engine that your putting the turbo on.Did you do anything to the bottom end like con rods/pistons.Looking good keep it up

 

its just a standerd 202 block thansit engine i got from the scrap yard for Ł80, i've re-built the top end and the bottom end was in suprisingly good nick so i just left it, i've got a lot on tomorrow so i'm going to crack on a bit more on friday

need to fit a boost guage to

 

looking good mate. keep up the good work.

 

this may sound stupid to most of you, but is that the standard carb, inlet manifold?

besides the obvious exhaust manifold, turbo, intercooler and plenum for the carb (great work by the way), what else do you need to do this kind of job?

cheers

 

the carb is just an old 38dgas of a capri, the inlet manifold is normal too, this is pretty experimental so far, i've not sorted the fuelling out yet, i need a high pressure pump so i can use the renault 5 turbo fuel pressure regulator, this alters the fuel pressure with the boost

i'm also planning on rigging a 5th (or 1st lol) injector in there somwhere, going to make it activate on a pressur switch

the ignition timing is going to need tweaking also

 

does the pressure of the turbo not affect the carb? Find this really interesting and what proper mechanical tuning is all about, not plugging into a computer. good stuff mate

 

isn't it best to use a turbo carb for this kind of projects?

external fuel pump?

also, is the inlet manifold from a capri?

 

it proberbly would be better, but i allready have this carb so i may aswell use it, i think the inlet is off a capri but not from a 3.0 like the carb

and yes, i'm going to use a bosch out of tank fuel pump as soon as i can get down the scrapyard and find one. like the old xr3i fuel pump

 

at the minute it does yes becuse the fuel pressure is too low and the boost pressure is stopping fuel from going into the carb. once this is sorted though it sould be fine

the float chamber is fed pressure through the breather as the box on top of the carb covers it. this means the carb SHOULD behave as normal because there is even pressure all through it

 

ah right i see, so its just a case of increasing the fuel pressure?

wont the vacuum effect be higher due to the turbo?

 

Think you will have problems feeding the engine with fuel when the pressure comes through the carb. These carbs is not built for pressure

EDIT: Just read the post above :P

 

you mean the vaccum that sucks the fuel in? i'm hoping it will be higher. there is more air going in so i'm hoping it'll suck plenty more fuel in too

 

nice work

 

yeah thats what I mean, should compensate and suck more fuel in

 

any progress mate?