my custom not-big worthless twins build
So a little while ago I sold my old-school MPI twins to my buddy dave (HEEPJEEPS) and we put them on his 06 LBZ CC/LB SRW.
I wanted to build my own twin setup because I wanted to do some unique things differently from MPI and I wanted to go bigger. And I just wanted to say Ive built my own twins.
I finally have all the parts except for the turbo. Im really frustrated with Forced Inductions because I ordered it monday with specific instructions (and paid extra shipping $$) that I needed it by friday (yesterday). OK. Fine. They said it shipped out on tuesday. Called on thursday to make sure it was on its way (its only coming from alabammy to CT, come on, shouldnt take that long). They said YES and that it would arrive UPS friday by 2:25PM. Well you can probably guess how the rest of the story goes; 2:25PM came and went, and as of right now (saturday) its still not here. I tried calling them all afternoon yesterday, no answer, WTF.
I need my truck running by this coming thursday because Im going up to school to visit my friends who are still there (have to relive college days every so often) and to pay the school's town of canton, ny for a ticket that was 3 years unpaid so I can get my license un-suspended in NY. NO it wasnt a ticket for drunk in public or being an idiot, it was for a broken headlight, imagine that!: :joker:
ANYWAY. Its gonna be custom "BT DieselWorks twins", designed/built by ben and dave.
- borgwarner S480 T6 1.32 A/R
- stock LLY turbo
- 3" mild steel (actually I think it might be aluminized, I dunno, I got it at a local tractor trailer shop) hot pipe
- 3.5" mild steel/aluminized cold pipe between the two turbos
- 3" and 2.5" mild steel/aluminized intercooler-to-intake manifold pipe
- full 4" mild steel/aluminized downpipe
- custom LLY turbo mouthpiece with machined v-band flange and o-ring
- re-use my MBRP 4" cool duals exhaust from the downpipe back
Im using LBZ runners/intake manifolds and a van bridge. I dont know what stooge at GM designed the stock LLY/LBZ two piece elbow/bridge thing but its annoying and impossible to hold in place and get to seal tightly without the EGR in place. So im using the van bridge and going from there...
Im going to try to make the pipes really complicated with as few silicone-boot-joints as possible because all they do is leak. Ideally there will be only 2 silicone boots. One at the cold pipe going into the LLY turbo mouthpiece, and one at the outlet of the intercooler to allow/account for engine movement.
Here are some crappy blackberry pics of what im working on today. Ill get some 'real' pictures up later on.
Ben
So a little while ago I sold my old-school MPI twins to my buddy dave (HEEPJEEPS) and we put them on his 06 LBZ CC/LB SRW.
I wanted to build my own twin setup because I wanted to do some unique things differently from MPI and I wanted to go bigger. And I just wanted to say Ive built my own twins.
I finally have all the parts except for the turbo. Im really frustrated with Forced Inductions because I ordered it monday with specific instructions (and paid extra shipping $$) that I needed it by friday (yesterday). OK. Fine. They said it shipped out on tuesday. Called on thursday to make sure it was on its way (its only coming from alabammy to CT, come on, shouldnt take that long). They said YES and that it would arrive UPS friday by 2:25PM. Well you can probably guess how the rest of the story goes; 2:25PM came and went, and as of right now (saturday) its still not here. I tried calling them all afternoon yesterday, no answer, WTF.
I need my truck running by this coming thursday because Im going up to school to visit my friends who are still there (have to relive college days every so often) and to pay the school's town of canton, ny for a ticket that was 3 years unpaid so I can get my license un-suspended in NY. NO it wasnt a ticket for drunk in public or being an idiot, it was for a broken headlight, imagine that!
: :joker:ANYWAY. Its gonna be custom "BT DieselWorks twins", designed/built by ben and dave.
- borgwarner S480 T6 1.32 A/R
- stock LLY turbo
- 3" mild steel (actually I think it might be aluminized, I dunno, I got it at a local tractor trailer shop) hot pipe
- 3.5" mild steel/aluminized cold pipe between the two turbos
- 3" and 2.5" mild steel/aluminized intercooler-to-intake manifold pipe
- full 4" mild steel/aluminized downpipe
- custom LLY turbo mouthpiece with machined v-band flange and o-ring
- re-use my MBRP 4" cool duals exhaust from the downpipe back
Im using LBZ runners/intake manifolds and a van bridge. I dont know what stooge at GM designed the stock LLY/LBZ two piece elbow/bridge thing but its annoying and impossible to hold in place and get to seal tightly without the EGR in place. So im using the van bridge and going from there...
Im going to try to make the pipes really complicated with as few silicone-boot-joints as possible because all they do is leak. Ideally there will be only 2 silicone boots. One at the cold pipe going into the LLY turbo mouthpiece, and one at the outlet of the intercooler to allow/account for engine movement.
Here are some crappy blackberry pics of what im working on today. Ill get some 'real' pictures up later on.
Ben
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