Just figured I’d share this little journey with everyone.
I recently got a hold of a banks turbo and the banks breather box, hell of a deal. Ended up going to buy a ZF5 transmission that I had found on Facebook Market place. Got the transmission for $150, and I asked the guy about the turbo, and he said “hell if you can get it off, then you can have it.”
Backstory, the turbo was cut with a torch on the pipe setup and the pipes were no longer available.
So I simply took my torch on my rig truck and heated the bolts up just a little bit on the head, and they broke loose with a combo wrench.
I get it home, took it apart, sent it to a buddy of mines Machine Shop, he redid the turbo for me as a favor being that he owed me from previous projects I’ve done for him.
So I get it home from the machine shop, I have a short block with heads laying around from my previous build, so I’m like well hell, I’m going to Fab up the pipes and bolt the transmission to this old block and that way all I have to do is install my pipes once I throw my ZF5 in the truck.
Needless to say, I finally took some time off for the Christmas holidays and got to work.
Below are the pictures of my pipes, I’m now in the process of painting them with some 2k degree high temp paint that I got from the painters at the plant I work at. And so far it’s coming out great.
There’s also a junk yard with another 7.3 in it, that has one of the factory turbo setups. I snagged it for $100 for the turbo, pipes, and intake connection. Planning on building another 7.3 or 6.9 for a rat rod that we’ve been eyeing. If I don’t end up using that turbo setup it’ll probably go on the shelf. The only great thing with that one, is the pipes are all there so no fabbing will need to be done. Been a great end of the year finding bargains like this.
I recently got a hold of a banks turbo and the banks breather box, hell of a deal. Ended up going to buy a ZF5 transmission that I had found on Facebook Market place. Got the transmission for $150, and I asked the guy about the turbo, and he said “hell if you can get it off, then you can have it.”
Backstory, the turbo was cut with a torch on the pipe setup and the pipes were no longer available.
So I simply took my torch on my rig truck and heated the bolts up just a little bit on the head, and they broke loose with a combo wrench.
I get it home, took it apart, sent it to a buddy of mines Machine Shop, he redid the turbo for me as a favor being that he owed me from previous projects I’ve done for him.
So I get it home from the machine shop, I have a short block with heads laying around from my previous build, so I’m like well hell, I’m going to Fab up the pipes and bolt the transmission to this old block and that way all I have to do is install my pipes once I throw my ZF5 in the truck.
Needless to say, I finally took some time off for the Christmas holidays and got to work.
Below are the pictures of my pipes, I’m now in the process of painting them with some 2k degree high temp paint that I got from the painters at the plant I work at. And so far it’s coming out great.
There’s also a junk yard with another 7.3 in it, that has one of the factory turbo setups. I snagged it for $100 for the turbo, pipes, and intake connection. Planning on building another 7.3 or 6.9 for a rat rod that we’ve been eyeing. If I don’t end up using that turbo setup it’ll probably go on the shelf. The only great thing with that one, is the pipes are all there so no fabbing will need to be done. Been a great end of the year finding bargains like this.
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