Boomtacoma's Buggy Build

[Taco Loco]

The GLFab Exhaust manifold came in last week. He really does a great job on these. Naturally I had to throw the Turbo on for good measure..

Pulsar 3071 Gen 2 - Seems these are the ones getting popular with the guys boosting 2/3RZs
For the price I gave it a shot..

• Dual Ceramic Ball Bearing System
• 8 Blade Gen2 Billet Compressor Wheel with Extended Tapered Tip Technology
• Inconel 713c 10 Blade Turbine Wheel
• Gen2 Cover Integrated with the Speed Sensor Port
• 3" V-Band Flange exhaust housing
• 4" inlet on Turbine Housing: T3 0.83A/R
• Performance turbo for applications with 1.8 – 3.0L engines
• Max Air Flow rate: ~60 lb/min, rated @ 650 FWHP

I found a Turbosmart Hypergate45 and a eBay special 44mm exhaust pipe to use.. Not in its final orientation yet.

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Considering a 3 port boost controller but need to look into that some more and how it integrates on the Haltech 750, If not, I'll use the manual Turbosmart on I have on the shelf that I never used for my other truck.

The T3 Spacer is on for now to buy some needed clearance for the coil packs in front of the Air filter. Those may get relocated. The spacer does buy me some room for the Turbo oil drain though. The air filter may need to be extended and routed differently, but that is where it will live for now. Now that I have a reference; I can pull the pan, install the 10AN bung for the turbo drain and plumb that up.
I also got the 4AN oil feed plumbed up from the oil filter to the turbo with a few fittings.

Air charge from the turbo is 2" moving to 2.75" at the throttle body. I hope it is able to clear the accessory drive and fan on the radiator. I still need some more parts to check that. May get my buddy to tig me up a shiny piece when its in its final configuration.

Exhaust will be 3in all the way out through a Flowmaster Flow FX muffler. It should be nice and ricey..

I may put the 2wd A340 pan back on to relocate the Trans dipstick to the other side even though I may lose a little capacity.
I over fill the trans anyways and will have a trans cooler plumbed in too.

Badass!

 

[Boomtacoma01]

Haltech goodies

Still waiting on my Atlas so, been killing time on other things.

Nathan came by to assist with a fabricated cold side intake pipe. He 3D printed some 2" straight and 22 degree pie cut pieces and we managed to route the crossover a little closer to the engine and reduced some of the 90s to help streamline it a bit better. The tight radius bends that are achieved with the pie cuts are so much cleaner than what I had before. There is still enough wiggle room for some alignment on the install when it is all fabbed out of aluminum. The silicone couplers total. Had to use the middle tee since it was 54 bucks . I couldn't not use it at that price..

 

[Silverback]

Looking too damn good to use that middle T as it is. That middle T needs to be aluminum.

 

[Boomtacoma01]

I was thinking that too. It will be hidden behind my radiator anyways..

 

[Boomtacoma01]

Atlas came in earlier last week and I finally got a chance to swing by and pick it up .

Promptly got it unboxed and stabbed into place.

I mocked up the seats and mounts. 1st try was with 1.75" DOM tube, FAIL. I wasn't happy with the height. No pics because time and material wasted .

I'm going to move and modify my Trans Xmember and try to lower the transmission and clock the atlas almost flat. Second try was with 1.25" DOM, this seems to be the path forward. I cut the tacks last night and moved it towards the rear to get the seats down about 3 inches. There is still a little more to be had. Planning on integrating the Atlas shifter mount to the the front seat mount tube. Looks like there is room and they will be easy to reach and out of the way of my right leg.

Might as well get these as low as possible. I found some rubber vibration mounts at McMaster with 12mm x 1.75 studs to thread into the tail shaft housing and will make a base with some 3in wide channel iron (or something similar) which will mount to the top of the Xmember. The current rear trans mount is just too tall an this will buy me another inch or so. This will hopefully get the seats in place and at an acceptable height.

Also, tacked in the orbital mount and column mount assembly just to see where it's going to live. I may need to move up to a 12in steering column from the 9.5" one I currently have or just modify the column mount I currently have.

 

[Silverback]

Baller status