On the bts did it just come with that part on the left of the pic?

 

What do you mean Aaron? It just came as a valve body..

 

There are multiple sections. Did you get the one piece on the far left that has three valves or were there more sections that they modify?
Just curious..
That section is the shifting body that I did the coon mod to.

 

Truck is looking great Andrew!

 

Ah yes i see what you mean. Yes only the section on the far left is changed on the valve body swap, took about 5 mins. But none of the other gypsy magic under there is touched.

 

Fun.yea its no big job. If you can avoid a trans fluid christening lol

 

Ok guys, another short update.

Making progress, but most of it is putting things back together. Had my good friend who has been super gracious with his welder come out and wrap a bunch of stuff last weekend.

Pretty much got started with mounting the turbo and then connecting the dots for intercooler piping and downpipe. I already had banks intercooler piping, so I opted to just modify these than start from scratch.



So after trimming the banks pipe back, I needed to make these two guys mate up.



And this is the other side coming in.



So I made my own y-pipe, trimmed a 90* to fit in the plenums,



Then worked a hole into the top





And after sitting it in place and getting it clocked properly, attached another 90* on top and welded it together. Also welded in a 1/8th NPT bunch for boost sensor.



^ not sure why that ended up looking kinda weird/racy, the bottom portion ended up really short, so the top looks kind tall/ out of proportion. But oh well, it fits well.

Modified both sections of the banks pipe a bit, although I dont have pictures of both for some reason. The drives side got more cut up to match with turbo..



Also welded in two 1/8NPT bunges on the passenger side pipe in to accommodate for a barb for the MAP line to re-attach to (used to go into plenum), and one is going to be blocked off for now, but will be used for a water-meth nozzle in the future (or a NOS nozzle... )



Then we made the downpipe, pretty much re-used as much of the original downpipe I had in there as we could ( a 3 inch flowmaster I bought 10 years ago now). I pretty much disconnected at the slip joint, and then we made a new upper for it.

Its not pretty, but poor people have poor ways, and I had to start drawing the line somewhere on this thing, so it got re-used for now.



And we ended up with this for upper.







Honestly, for fitting it in the truck and having nothing but a zip-cut ^ I feel that came out about as well as it could have. The thing fit together nearly perfectly in the end, much better than gaps I ended up with in the up-pipes haha .

Finally, I bought a drain plug off amazon, and then got a nut for it and welded a drain plug into the E4OD pan. New ones are pretty reasonable but this one was 6 bucks, so that's even better.



And what might be the best example of lipstick on a pig.. I splurged for schaeffers synthetic tranny fluid. So the old stock E4OD with triple disk TC and valve body is getting the best, hopefully it stays together long enough for me to save a bit of $ again.



And my biggest pet peeve from my previous setup was spending time painting intercooler piping, then scratching the s**t out of it the first time it had to come out. So going with the colour theme on this build, I wrapped the new piping with black exhaust wrap. Im not thinking this is going to be functional or anything, just wont scratch and should look alright.



That's it for now, should have it all installed this weekend if the snow melts. I'll try to record first startup.

-Andrew

 

Does anyone have a picture of how the hood latch cable is routed through the core support? I cant quite recall how exactly it was when I removed it

 

Looking good Andrew. I don't have a pic, sorry. I don't know how much of a difference it is, but I've got my map on the hot side pipe. IIRC there is supposed to be less turbo lag if mounted on that side.

 

Interesting, Ive never read that...

I was just putting it essentially at the point in the system where the hose would be the shortest/least clutter. Maybe I'll have to move it, dang it Wish I knew this before!

 

Put your MAP hose and boost sensor on the hot side, and do your water/meth on the cold side.

 

Well if its worth doing, it's worth doing twice I guess. Hot side it is.

 

The bung you put in the Y would be a good place for the water/meth. Just put pipe plugs in the other two on your cold side pipe....you may wanna add NOS later!

 

I put mine in #4 location. Still to be tested thoroughly.


Where to locate your injection nozzle

 

I think you should be able to see the routing in this picture.