NEED HELP SHOULD I BUY ? TURBO QUESTIONS

[TheBirdman]

Oh Im perfectly happy with how my banks setup turned out, Ive got an AMC Eagle, so Im perfectly used to spending hundreds of hours rebuilding worn out old parts that nobody makes parts for, for a questionable end result. The turbo rebuild itself was pretty easy aside from a snapped off bolt in the turbine housing. I had to 3d print a mount to stick my air die grinder with a carbide rotary file onto my drill press, so I could use it like a poor mans mill to grind the bolt out without chewing up the threads.

Im just saying if I charged myself even the cheapest of shop rates, the price tag wouldve been higher than a new turbo kit. Actual parts and materials price tag was incredibly low.

 

[ISPKI]

Your best option is to order a kit from CDD, R&D, Hypermax, etc. I don't think Banks sells the IDI sidewinder anymore, but I may be wrong. Like was said already, there are a ton of other trim pieces that are needed to install a turbo on a N/A engine. I don't know what you value your time at, but I would rather pay someone who has already gone through the time and expense of piecing this all together than to reverse engineer it myself, just to maybe save a few bucks.

Here is the complete CDD Turbo kit and a 3.5" Banks exhaust kit for my '85 F350 laid out on the bench before I installed it. The turbo pedestal, CDR Valve, and turbo specific fuel lines for cylinders 2 & 4 are not in the image.

It appears that they can be ordered directly from banks power:

https://bankspower.com/products/tur...ord-f250-f350-6-9-7-3l?variant=42951623770309

 

[KansasIDI]

Oh Im perfectly happy with how my banks setup turned out, Ive got an AMC Eagle, so Im perfectly used to spending hundreds of hours rebuilding worn out old parts that nobody makes parts for, for a questionable end result. The turbo rebuild itself was pretty easy aside from a snapped off bolt in the turbine housing. I had to 3d print a mount to stick my air die grinder with a carbide rotary file onto my drill press, so I could use it like a poor mans mill to grind the bolt out without chewing up the threads.

Im just saying if I charged myself even the cheapest of shop rates, the price tag wouldve been higher than a new turbo kit. Actual parts and materials price tag was incredibly low.

If you’re going to factor in theoretical shop rates, don’t forget to do that with the install of a new turbo kit

 

[TheBirdman]

I wouldnt have had to rebuilt the turbo, weld up the crotch of the Y pipe with cut strips of steel, re-bend the up pipe, cut out graphite donuts to seal the headers, and try 3 different ways of sealing the stupid bent up slip joint with a new kit. Thats what most of the hours were.