Muncie

I kind of took a guess where the wastegate would end up against the plenum surprisingly I hit the mark looks good. Enough clearance to pop the v bands and slip it out for spring changes.

Ok some of you are probably thinking Muncie you Dickhead your inlet is pointing straight at your wastegate. I've been on hunt for a spare plenum to chop up and flip, stumbled across one already done but not very neatly welded it was cheap though! So I'll save money not buy one from Mace engineering fill my argon and weld it up better as practice for the intercooler plumbing It's been sealed up with jb weld in places so will sort that fill in the nasty bits and try making it pretty. Sometimes I'm ace on alloy others I struggle a bit more exposure can't hurt. Will also linish up the ports too

It's certainly a different mounting approach to how others do it. Probably not better or worse but to service it will be ace spark plugs are easy to get to everything is vee band so a few spanners everything could come out in a few minutes. Changes of wastegate springs will be piss easy too as its a gate off job due to needing a clamp to squeeze the top hat on to drop bolts it, not at all hard it not been under car will save my back.

Starting to remember how to tig weld again too almost through my first gas cylinder. No need to rate my welds I already give myself a 4 out of 10 they're strong enough at least.

Now turbo and wastegate are self supported decided to see how much room I have to do the downpipe in 3.5 inch surprisingly not bad, could be improved for sure and I'm lacking a few pieces so sticky tape and tack welds for now.

Got back in to things today revisited wastegate position reckon it should have about as good flow as I can give it now also tweaked it a bit further away from rocker cover.

Anyone keen on this? I need some extra cash for my commodore project. It's probably suitable for hard as nails kids its still a hoot for adults though will fit in a wagon too. Just the thing for ripping up tge lawn this summer. See the for sale thread.

A wise once chap said hold up.... something ain't right. So I ordered some parts chopped some things off and started again. Now ive actually got 50/50 priority turbo or wastegate. Chopped the T3 flange off and did my best to make a 4-1 merge to sit the new 1-2 90 degree blend which has some other benefits everything will end up closer to the manifold win win. Now to get v bands on this and weld it all together. From there I'll probably fit it in the car and start making the downpipe and front crossover in the engine bay. I may roll up at drag day N/A or turbo at this rate...... or as a spectator. If anyone has a sharp price on 3.5" tube message me a need some.

Added a small fuel tank to it and other than an annoying float height leak its run faultlessly just real minor things like adjusting brakes that didn't stop it for long. Kids and myself ran 3 tanks of gas through it over weekend took it to Auckland my son rode it around panmure basin. Good fun chugs along pretty effortlessly and steams up hills I struggle to walk up end up being pretty light too. Gets a wobble over 40kph I'll see if I can add some bracing to get rid of it but you wouldn't normally go that fast on it anyway.

If you want some knobblies would be keen to swap.

Plus one for Strata i Bought an AC/DC ex demo for $1800 from Proline in Nelson. its so bloody easy to use and has made my getting back in to tig so much better AC i'm still learning but havent blown holes in anything yet.

Cheers, i sat down today and watched some you tube vids got the coms working data was working but lots of errors. tried different options used one that shouldn't work surprisingly it did.

Finally Managed to get Tunerpro Talking to the car again settings were vastly different to how my previous laptop was setup, program would crash then i got coms but only Transmission information few more settings got some engine information and no trans information....... randomly checked a few more options everything fired back up all the onscreen dash became live, And it works so much better than my previous laptop everything is quick data logs nicely was a bit hit and miss before. If i wanted to run an aftermarket ECU i'd need something that can run the trans too hence i'm giving it a nudge others have with good results otherwise i'd run a Haltech R3 or something. Thank fuck for that! s

Managed to unseize this and get it running....... its poked runs but sounds like it's been lubricated with valve grinding paste. Removed CVT belt and sound is in the crankcase guessing a bearing has collapsed as its so down on power idles lovely though.

@cletus cheers few photos definitely helps especially of something that works. What size gate and turbo are you running?

Definitely taking that on ive ordered some more parts to reconfigure it, it's a 60mm gate so as soon as it opens there's going to need to be good flow to it or it's going to be terrible, turbo on this engine could support 700hp efficiently and I'm betting the insides would fall into the sump around 500hp so good control needs to be a priority. Interestingly this setup had a single 38mm wastegate venting only the drivers side exhaust flow welded on at a fucked angle im betting it came up for sale after killing a few engines.

Can anyone help with this? I can not get Tunerpro up and running to see live data. Osm flash tool connects and works so it's just got to be something really small but im out of ideas.

Well got coms going again with car Reflashed PCM with clean version of binary file. And it starts and runs so successful there. Fingers crossed plugged in and tunerpro is trying but still not working its a setting somewhere in the config so can't see live data or log anything.

Think ive got a plan re the wastegate placement, will more or less stay in the same place just the pipework will be reconfigured a bit to transition more of a 50/50 flow to wastegate and turbo. Thanks to @Honda Ass Dragger I now have an Innovate LC-2 Wideband to install. That's led me to trying to work out how to integrate it in to the stock ecu apparently it's a piece of cake and the calibration file I have already supports it. My biggest problem I've got at moment is my lead won't talk to the car through Tunerpro it used to on my old laptop then stopped ive now got a new laptop too, Hopefully it's not a Windows 11 problem. Will do some trouble shooting today see if I can pull the bin file from PCM using a different program then try using the settings to get Tunerpro talking again. I now have a huge pile of car parts in garage that even the mrs is impressed with!

I had a different image in my head and had started buying bits then found the manifold setup. Guess I kind of merged the two ideas.

Noted, in my head it looked like the best flow option with priority to the turbo but able open the gate to release pressure. Will see what I can do ive built so it can be easily modified at least..... With what you see what would you do? Use one of these?

Inlet is now sharing space with wastegate and exhaust supposedly really easy to flip it 180 degrees to drivers side so will do that, should make the intercooler plumbing far easier. Oh fuck me intercooler too! Injectors fuel pump fuel pressure regulator etc etc. Just got to keep chipping at it.

Things to do next. Actually fit both manifolds in car finalise placement and start building the crossover pipe around front of engine. The dump pipes going to need to snake around air conditioning which is doable and AC plumbing has about 50mm of flex towards strut with little force needed to shift it (eg push with one finger) so will make a bracket to hold it there. The crossover has to duck under the manifold and fit through a 100mm gap that has Air-conditioning radiator hoses and engine loom all around it. However it's like it was meant to be there.

Pull it off weld it together remembered I haven't done much tig in years! Realise I'm also actually sick and that's why I'm shaking like fuck. Happy with todays progress. Till the mrs comes out and goes oh is the new engine in didn't take long......

Step two see where the wastegate can live for the sake of servicing fuck it can just live right there! Both turbo and wastegate are 63mm so a blended tee got used the bend heads to the turbo gate off ass end of the bend. Sits in a good spot plumbing back to downpipe will be very easy or straight out bonnet....