HE451, air system, seats install pictures

[Begle1]

It lives! It lives! It lives!
After two months I've had the truck down, I had to take some jury-rigging liberties to just make it driveable... Excuse the dangling bits and tie wrapped bits and whatnot. It drives!

New turbo and everything that flows air.



Dual-component air filter off a Hino tucked under the fender.
Scrap piece of 4" bent tubing to get it into the turbo.
HE451 turbo, coolant coming from stock ATF cooler ports. Supposedly it's a 64mm model off a really low HP ISX.
Cross-over pipe with a 3" to 4" cast bell that I should be able to tap for all my nozzles. Hood almost closes without contact, should clear as soon as I reposition the clamps.
Intake plate made out of an elongated 4" flange, trying to get air as far back and forward into the head as possible.
ATS T4 manifold.
Custom adapter plates to convert the T4 manifold to the T4i turbo foot.
Diamond Eye 4" downpipe.











Scat "Procar" seats. I don't recommend them. I need to move the shifter back next time I have transmission out.





I was concerned I might have issues spooling the turbo. With the nut tie-wrapped where it is keeping the vanes from pushing themselves open, it's locked in maybe 33% open position and builds 15 PSI in neutral at RPM. Much faster spool than the stocker, with just the downpipe I can't notice any smoke short of flooring it, EGTs were well less than 1000 degrees with the 35 PSI boost gauge buried. No exhaust noise, lots of whistle. A boost leak above 25 PSI that sounds like a turkey call fire siren combo.

Next I need to get everything to seal, then I have a rotary pneumatic control rig to mount on top of the turbo and a support to fabricate and mount below it. Then I have plenty of telemetry to finish hooking up, then I need to get my water injection system hooked back up, then I'm tuning the hell out of this thing.

[collegekid]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet setup, what is the green box and wiring harness on the drivers fender? (if I may ask)

[Begle1]

Most of the wiring on that side is water injection and datalogger stuff. The green box is a thermocoupler that turns the thermocouple signal from the intake into a 4-20 milliamp signal for the logger.

[dazedandconfused]

So are you gonna hook the vanes up to a actuautor?

[oldestof11]

In all my years on this place, I have finally seen Begles whole truck and what was hiding under the hood.

Now I think this is my best expression of what I have just seen...



Now that is over...

Good job Begle!

[Tacoclaw]

In all my years on this place, I have finally seen Begles whole truck and what was hiding under the hood.

I've never seen either of those before either.


I was wondering what possible reason someone could want sched40 in their crossover would be, but I never thought about threading stuff into mine. What's that dangerous-looking bare cable lug behind your seat go to? That suspicious-looking red box that's also back there? On your desire to get air to the front and back of the intake better, do you just have a 4 or 5 inch pipe that you've flattened out to get distribution as far as the injector lines will allow? Pretty good idea.

I've been thinking into rebuilding mine as well, though I've seen on a lot of performance gasser stuff where they'll actually put in curved plates that extend over into the incoming air. In log manifolds it helps evenly distribute the air into each cylinder, so it doesn't just blow by really fast onto the next one in line. I was thinking about adding some onto my plate that points towards the back and front. mostly towards the back, as I've seen that my engine obviously runs hotter at it's back-half.

That does look awesome, I wish my truck was half that clean...