Gunhand1
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Hi, you might remember me from the Dana 50 build thread I did (dumb). Being know for that level of ignorance wasn't good enough for me so now I am turbo-ing the Cherokar.
After my axle build thread this thing has seen a lot of action, some flops, and lots and lots of rev limiter......and it didn't break any drivetrain components. BORING. What I need is more power, I need that carnage every now and then to really make me feel like I was trying.
I was visiting a buddy and dropping some stuff off to him and we stood around bullshitting in his garage looking at his fresh 6.0 swapped TJ one day. The conversation eventually landed on the ebat turbo that was sitting on his shelf collecting dust. After a while he says that I should take it with me and use it as it is too small for anything he owns now, I'm a sucker for free parts so I do just that.
I stand around a bit drinking some miller's and pondering ideas on how best to stuff this free Beijing block buster under the hood (as cheaply as possible, of course). Eventually I decide its gonna go right about where the factory airbox sits.
All that fleshed out I set to work building a (sort of) cage, because I wouldn't want to take the most direct path here. I picked up a Hughes model 1 (jd2 before the name change) bender for a little bit of nothing a while back and converted it to air over hydro and bolted it up to an engine stand. I'm hoping in the not too distant future to build a more hardcore rig out of a TJ tub that I have laying around, but having never don't tube work in my life I decided I need some practice. And if I am being honest this whole XJ has been practice from day 1, I had no idea what I was doing when I started down this road. Begin the "cage" build:
So I just ended up doing some B pillar uprights and a crossover that ties into the pipe (yes, pipe) rain gutter "tree sliders". And basically the same in the rear to tied into the shock towers and a little X bracing there so I don't smash the roof in on my kids head. It's not the best tube(pipe) work, mistakes were made. But I feel a little more secure now and I think I can do better on the next build, and I definitely need a notcher, or at least a better drill press and a X Y table.
But I digress. With the looming possibility of a new job being offered ( distant possibility, as I asked for a pretty crazy amount) I decided ot was the perfect time to start a turbo build.
I got to work disassembling all of the engine bits that guide fresh air in and guide expended gasses out so I could chop up the perfectly fine not cracked at all stock manifold. The plan here was to make a log manifold that was pretty low profile and with extremely questionable flow characteristics.
Pretty straight forward, just cut straight across and notch them a bit to cradle the pipe (yes, pipe. Again). All except #6 were smooth, the angle of the factory header for this was wonky so I had to cut another section off and graft it in.
Lots of test fitting to make sure it all cleared happened, but so far it looks like it will all fit with room to spare.
After my axle build thread this thing has seen a lot of action, some flops, and lots and lots of rev limiter......and it didn't break any drivetrain components. BORING. What I need is more power, I need that carnage every now and then to really make me feel like I was trying.
I was visiting a buddy and dropping some stuff off to him and we stood around bullshitting in his garage looking at his fresh 6.0 swapped TJ one day. The conversation eventually landed on the ebat turbo that was sitting on his shelf collecting dust. After a while he says that I should take it with me and use it as it is too small for anything he owns now, I'm a sucker for free parts so I do just that.
I stand around a bit drinking some miller's and pondering ideas on how best to stuff this free Beijing block buster under the hood (as cheaply as possible, of course). Eventually I decide its gonna go right about where the factory airbox sits.
All that fleshed out I set to work building a (sort of) cage, because I wouldn't want to take the most direct path here. I picked up a Hughes model 1 (jd2 before the name change) bender for a little bit of nothing a while back and converted it to air over hydro and bolted it up to an engine stand. I'm hoping in the not too distant future to build a more hardcore rig out of a TJ tub that I have laying around, but having never don't tube work in my life I decided I need some practice. And if I am being honest this whole XJ has been practice from day 1, I had no idea what I was doing when I started down this road. Begin the "cage" build:
So I just ended up doing some B pillar uprights and a crossover that ties into the pipe (yes, pipe) rain gutter "tree sliders". And basically the same in the rear to tied into the shock towers and a little X bracing there so I don't smash the roof in on my kids head. It's not the best tube(pipe) work, mistakes were made. But I feel a little more secure now and I think I can do better on the next build, and I definitely need a notcher, or at least a better drill press and a X Y table.
But I digress. With the looming possibility of a new job being offered ( distant possibility, as I asked for a pretty crazy amount) I decided ot was the perfect time to start a turbo build.
I got to work disassembling all of the engine bits that guide fresh air in and guide expended gasses out so I could chop up the perfectly fine not cracked at all stock manifold. The plan here was to make a log manifold that was pretty low profile and with extremely questionable flow characteristics.
Pretty straight forward, just cut straight across and notch them a bit to cradle the pipe (yes, pipe. Again). All except #6 were smooth, the angle of the factory header for this was wonky so I had to cut another section off and graft it in.
Lots of test fitting to make sure it all cleared happened, but so far it looks like it will all fit with room to spare.
). I may do some work to smooth the flow into the runner to the T3 flange but I am a a bit crunched for time now.
. So I not only have to finish this shitbox up, or at least make it move under its own power, but I also have to prep my house to sell it. The bright side of all this is I will be back in my hometown where the wheeling opportunities are MUCH better, and trips will be more frequent.
