Jet Hot called and should have the manifolds and turbos coated by the end of next week cannot wait till they get here.  I will post some pics when they show up.  Now we have to order some nice shiny exhaust pipe for the down pipes and waste gate dumps.  I am excited to here the dual exhaust with turbos!!

Can't wait to see it myself.

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

Here, in the continent of million Toyotas and Skodas, I can say nice even that is made by wrong american car company and wrong era.


Hyvinkää, FI

I figured I could put some of my tax dollars to work for me for a change. At least get a bit of our 60 billion bailout dollars back from a company that still builds junk vehicles.

They finally showed up!  Here are some pics.

The headers and turbo hot sides are ceramic coated and the cold side of the turbos are powder coated.

Picture of the collector Chris built.

All new Turbosmart waste gates, blow off valve and electronic boost controller.  It's gonna be sick!!

Lookin' so good so far! One serious build, have to say. Hutz, what are you going to use as a head gaskets?

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
www.hollowheads.net (just click the hole in the head to proceed)

Blue felpro with 125 lb/ft of torque plus 90 degrees. ARP studs of course. Had about thousand mile on the other head gaskets with 15 lbs of boost and they looked perfect when I pulled the heads off. No signs of leakage anywhere. Someone told me i couldn't torque them that much but I haven't blown a head gasket yet.

It's not so much that you can't, as you have obviously found but going by a copy of a page out of the ARP catalog, a 220000psi 7/16stud with ARP Moly Lube should be torqued to 70ftlbs. You are nearly 2 to 2.5 times the recommendation depending on just which stud you have. Add in the additional pressure as a result of the turbo, and you have to be exceeding the design limits of the stud.


Lawrenceville, GA

It's coming together we have all the stainless pipe ordered for the exhaust and waste gates. All the blue turbo smart couplers for intercooler piping on their way. It's looking good and cannot wait.