As the title, I'm converting a cheap TD05 that I got recently so I can fit it to my Turbo 2000 over the winter. Here goes.

Compressor housing before I start, I've marked a cut line as well: Elbow cut off:
Excess material cut from elbow:
A little bit more cut from the intake nozzle:
General tidy up of the surfaces:


Washed up and ready for welding, hopefully tomorrow:

 

Nice! Get a picture up of it once its been welded...

 

If I can't get it TIG'd today I'm gonna try out some aluminium brazing rods I have. Used them before to repair my lawnmower casing with great success!

 

Looks good mate, will be interesting to see the difference it makes on the car.

 

All welded up:

 

Very neat , nice job

 

Was it expensive to have it welded up

 

Thanks Simon, I'm well happy with it. I cant take any credit for welding though. A very kind work colleague of my wife welded it today for a grand total of £0.

I'm getting him a bottle of Bacardi for doing it though.

 

Nice job. 16g is a great turbo :-D

 

Looking forward to getting it strapped on! I have a new up pipe to bolt on with it but now I'm doubting it's large diameter. Might have to go back to the drawing board on it.

 

Good effort.

That's much too difficult for a septic to work out though.

 

Took me little over an hour to cut and shape the parts and the guy welded it in 10 minutes. My end of the job was easy. I thought it would have been worse!

You referring to "that other" post?? Lol

 

Maybe......

 

Ha!

 

Harvey smith uppipe works a treat. 1bar by 2900rpm is great :-D

 

Some people just can't be helped. It's definitely one of those face buried deep in my palms jobs.

 

AS Performance do these still, don't they?

 

Yes.

 

yup thats where mine came from. had a vf28 on before with stock uppipe and the 16g with a harvey uppipe spools as quick if not quicker. would have loved to have tried the harvey uppipe with the 28.

 

Indeed mate. People have been putting FE converted 16g's on PH 1.5 cars for god knows how long. It's hardly rocket science.

 

I still can't work out if that goat has a top entry or front entry turbo on his car, guessing it's a front entry like my TD04. I really don't know what it is he's trying to achieve either.

 

Americans didn't get turbo'd GC8's, and I believe there is some law stating that some cars can't be imported until they are 25 years old.

Strange folk are some Americans.

 

Yeah so I've seen on here but the "20K" that's repeatedly referred to also came turbocharged. The blatant lack of information and refusal to cooperate doesn't help his cause at all. If he had said "I have a N/A GC8 and would like to stick a turbo on it" then the thread might actually have been a success.

Anyway, I think I want to paint or anodise my compressor housing now. Just for the sake of it really. More to follow!

 

So, like I said before I wanted to paint or anodise my compressor housing. Opted for paint:











It's 65C reddish blue like my car. Just needs clear coat and that's it.

I rebuilt the turbo core earlier with a full service kit from eBay, all went together perfectly. Looking forward to getting it on the car.

 

Tart.

 

What he^ said.

Will the? paint cope with the heat? Compressor housing still gets quite hot.

 

lol

Yeah the paint should be fine, shed loads of people paint them. When I fit it and roast it for a while I'll report back with the results.

 

Have you fitted it yet?

 

The inlet looks a bit too long to me, certainly wouldn't fit on my blob like that.
Cracking turbo the 16g though

 

Heard a few complain about turbo lag. Not sure what turbo was on my V1 WRX but guessing it was TD05 although it was a beast to drive so not sure my have had upgraded turbo.