Other than the near 100* heat and the fact that I'm a lousy mechanic, the job went smoothly. Except the park manager explaining how working on vehicles is not allowed here...



I got the exhaust like 2 days after ordering it (thanks Clay! ) and it was a piece of cake to install. I cut the stock junk just in front of trans x-member and behind muffler and it came out with truck sitting on all 4 tires.



The old turbo came out in less than 45min and I cleaned the CAC tubes and pedestal and did the EBPV delete. Then, I put it ALL THE WAY back together with the van turbo (THANKS JIM), put most of the tools away and decided to crank it up. When I do, I walk around back and listen to the exhaust, ease up front and look under the hood for a bit and finally turn off the truck - eagerly awaiting a test drive. At some point, I observe 1/2 gallon of shiny, BLACK (5k miles) engine oil running off the piece of cardboard I was laying on!!! I cleaned up the spill and pulled the turbo off again and found a pinched o-ring (ie, the lousy mechanic). Put it all back together again and its all good now.

The bad news is my up-pipes are leaking BAD.



Went from nearly 30psi on the stock charger that blew up, to barely 20psi on a known, good stock charger - thats when they started leaking, because I saw them when I swapped turbos a few weeks ago and they didn't look like this! So, another call to Riffraff and ceramic-coated bellowed up-pipes are ON THE WAY!!

Now, I just gotta find a place to wrench on my truck so I don't get evicted!

Even though I'm still only making 20ish psi, the SOUND this thing makes is awesome. Its kinda like a big block muscle car with mufflers mixed with a jet-powered helicopter. The tone/pitch of the exhaust is a beautiful 'song' accompanied by the turbo whistle as the lead singer. I am pretty infatuated with it right now (and I have had a couple beers, lol...) My other truck has a 38R, 6637 and a straight pipe - I love that sound, but this is waaaay cooler!! That van turbo SINGS!!!!

 

good job know you can fix the pipes.

 

What exhaust did you get from Clay. Almost looks like a banks. Anyway I like the look.
Chet

 

Good work on the install. Just let us know if the manager gives you any more trouble. Jim and I can take a drive down there to rough him up

 

Hehehe, actually she is very nice. Good to know y'all got my back though!

 

Glad you got it done Jason. That's a well manicured site, I bet you did race to clean the oil before it became too messy. Did any oil drain from the stock muffler? I'm curious how much was in there. You can always bring it over to my house for the Up-pipe install .

 

I knew you would love the van turbo still not sure why more people don't have one its a great option between stock and 38r