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The throttle body is a MAC 70mm high perf. mustang throttle body. As long as you are retaining the secondaries in your engine, it doesn' kill you low-end performance but it sure helps on the top-end. It will now be a big benefit with the turbo.

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The turbo kit was put together by Streetflight for me. Since the engine was larger, the T28 just wouldn't cut it...not even close for the airflow requirements of a highly ported 3L motor. The turbo you see is a T3/T4 with .82 exhuast housing. It is a lot bigger than the T28 so none of the piping after the headers would work since the turbo has to sit higher. I purchased the first set of headers that streetflight made when they were first getting the kit together. They are not all stainless steel, only the header primaries are stainless. Anyway, they were the 1st prototype set and were good enough for that 290HP dyno. I felt they would be better for my engine since it was a 3L rather than the smaller tube headers that they are using now. So in effect, it is a bastardized streetflight partial kit that I am working with.
I am fabricating all the piping from the headers up to the turbo, and from the turbo to the exhaust right now. In the one picture of the up-pipe, it is just tack-welded together to get the turbo into the correct position. The down pipe is also built now and fully welded together but I forgot to take my camera and snap pictures of it.
Next I am hooking up the oil pressure and return lines as well as the water cooling for the bearings. When that is done, then I will fully bolt up the headers and all the piping on the exhuast side.
Intake: I have an intercooler core and I am going to construct my own water to air intercooler. The turbo sits in a different spot so I didn't want to use the intercooler from the SF kit because the angles for the pipe may not have been advantageous.
So: I'm looking at about 6 more hours of work to get it driveable with no boost, from then I am not sure how long it will take to get the intake side finished correctly.

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Tom