EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE WHATEVER I'M TIRED IT'S 6:30 IN THE DAMN MORNING
--T-Bird Stage 1-- [ Or look here:
The Ultimate T Bird Hybrid "How To"/ What do I need to make a T Bird Hybrid? - MX6.com (The Ultimate T Bird Hybrid "How To"/ What do I need to make a T Bird Hybrid?) ]
If you're not afraid to remove your turbo, tear it apart, ship it out, be without a car for a couple weeks, put it back together, then put it back on, then you could have yourself the coveted "Alter Ego T-Bird Stage 1" at a sufficiently lower cost than what it sells for online. First, find yourself a T-Bird compressor housing and wheel. It comes on the 87-88 Turbocoupes equipped with the IHI turbocharger.
This is the car you are looking for. The one you actually find will probably not look this nice, and the trunk may contain pornography.
Wrecking yards are a first choice, they can be had for as little as 10.00. They sell often on MX6.com for between 80.00 and 100.00, which is understandable, given the pain in the butt that these things can be to remove. Now, find yourself a rebuild kit. Check Ebay, I purchased one there for 95.00 shipped to my door. Alright, got everything? Good. Remove your turbo, and take it apart. No, take it apart carefully, put down the torch. Alright. Box up your turbine/shaft/compressor wheel, and ship/drive them to your nearest facility which is capable of balancing these items. I recommend Turbo City in Orange, CA. They charge 35.00 for a balance/bead blast of these items. Follow the handy dandy turbo rebuild FAQ on MX6.COM to assemble, and presto, Stage 1 Hybrid. You'll need an adapter plate for the compressor side to get this thing hooked up, so take it by your local back alley muffler shop, have them pick out an appropriate flange and short piece of pipe and weld it together for you. Re-install your turbo. Now, cut your wastegate line in two and go drive the car really, really hard. Just kidding, don't do that.
You need fuel now! Keep reading!
--Fuel Pump--
The only advice I can give you here is to shop around. The 255lph may be overkill, but if you feel that you may need it in the future, go ahead and get it now.
Otherwise, a 190lph will do just fine.
--5th injector--
You'll need a cold-start injector found on any old volvo, bmw, vw, whatever. Look for them mounted in the intake manifold, they'll usually have a blue top.
Just like this one
By the
way, you should be looking in the wrecking yard, not in your grandmother's garage, she'll need this item to keep her 1982 Volvo Wagon running to get back and forth from bingo. If you can't find one in the wrecking yard, have no local wrecking yard, or are a lazy bastard who sits around all day playing C0uNt3R5triEK because you are a virgin with no social skills or whatever, look on the classified section of MX6.com. They pop up occasionally, and sell for around 20.00 shipped. Alright, nooooow, go to your local auto parts store, and ask for a Hobbes Pressure Switch. Hobbes, as in the cartoon tiger accompanying Calvin, Pressure as in what I'm constantly under, Switch as in whatever just get the damn thing. You'll also need a brass barb that will thread onto the switch, and some vacuum line, a vacuum tee, a brass tee the appropriate size to match your existing fuel line post filter and your 5th injector's fuel inlet, and some extra fuel line from your tee to the injector.. All of these items should be well under 70.00. I will post a diagram when I find the one I drew on a napkin a few days ago, then lost.
I couldn't find the napkin diagram, so I used a highly advanced CGI program to do this one. This will be easy to follow, unless you are dumber than a box of hair.
Your switch will close at 10psi, powering the injector and adding fuel into your intake tract. Primitive and crude, but it works very well. Well enough to support
18psi on my Stage 1 hybrid with all of the other above modifications, and running pump gas.
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If you've followed all of the above, you're probably pretty quick by now. These modifications have netted me 82mph trap speeds in the 1/8th mile. Traction and
God willing, you'll probably see an easy 13 second 1/4th mile time at sea level, and you didn't spend too much to do it. People will laugh at your cost effective modifications, but hopefully they will be people with slower cars than you, so that you can smoke them, and laugh back. If you have any questions or corrections, or bags of money you'd like to give away, please PM me.
-SD6
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