My bad, I did misread the question. They were milled from aluminium on a 3 axis cnc mill.

 

Oh and the lower portion is back from the welder. Looks amazing, I just need to smooth down the welds and I'll be ready to work on the plenum body.

 

pic's

 

OK

Welds inside the runners. I put a large v groove in the parts to ensure lots of penetration. The welding was done by a local fabricator that is much better at this type of welding then I am.









After about an hour with the die grinder everything is smoothed back out. I'll go over it tomorrow with a higher grit just to clean it up cosmetically. In the final picture you can set the outside of the runners. I really like the result of doing the welds this way and having the manifold look like one piece.

 

Very interesting way to have it welded up.

 

^Only way that works is if you get great penetration, however you have to be very carefull with the regrinding. Looks good!

 

Moar!!

 

Very true. Although I put a very large bevel on the parts to ensure the weld would be very deep and wide.


I managed to get some work on the plenum body done this weekend, including a very rough test fit on the car. Work is busy this week so I'll try to take some pics soon.

 

very nice quality there mate, truly beautiful

 

unfortunately i also have a hard time seeing the M90 put down anywhere near 350WHP, some people have used them but put down closer to maybe 250WHP.

 

Any updates level 0 ?

 

Out of the box you are correct, but with the newer rotors and an upgrade housing it has been done. If I remember right a few of the thunderbird guys are making 400+. Personally I'll just be happy to be able to take the car down the track this year.

 

Work has been hectic and the weather hasn't been great so I haven't done much on the manifold. I started welding up the plenum but still need to machine the top plate.

This weekend some friends came by and while poking at the car, one pointed out I might be able to fit the m90 on the OEM manifold with an adapter. I had all the cad files I needed to whip up a design so I made this up today.

I still plan on finishing the manifold, but this will work as a good solution for now. and also let's me start working on the pully's.

 

lol almost looks stock :P

personally it would still be nice to have the offset incase you do go with a IC later down the track

 

I have a 87 gxl na and a 89 supercoupe Thunderbird I was wondering if this was possible. the m90 can easily spin over stock setup by ford ( pulley ) not uncommon to see 5% and mostly 10% overdrive on them. I was getting 18lb boost on stock pulley and blew head gasket. with higher compression rotors more rpms and the fact it came off a 3.8l. I would think you need a turbo block or lower compression for it to not blow somewhere. Making your own pulley would help. Seems you have the resources to do so. I will be watching this closely.

 

Nice quick job on the adapter. how does it line up with the rest of the pulleys?

 

this is bad *** i will keep checking up on this very iNtrested to see final dyno pull

 

Almost, except the snout wont clear the hood line. With the manifold it was even worse

I personally like high compression build with forced induction. It's all in the tuning/detonation management. That being said, this set up is horrible idea for anyone not willing to kill a few motors. I can tweak the pulleys to keep the boost low, with the intake charge is still going to be stupidly hot. Thankfully this is my track car and I have most of the bits for a PWM water injection set up.


+/- 0.050" give or take. I'll be machining the pulleys so anything that is out of line will be able to be made up in the other pulleys. I was mostly worried about firewall clearance and making sure the inlet/outlet lined up well.

I don't expect big numbers. I'm planning to keep things tame this year, and there is still a long list of work to do on the chassis.

 

here is a idea. use the stock fd pulleys so you can use a nice 5 rib belt. i have some i can hook you up with possibly.

 

I thought about that, but the SC 6 rib, I forget off the top of my head. I'm planning on either running 6 rib or dual 4 rib belts. I plan to under drive the water pump to prevent cavitation, and under drive the alt to save reduce parasitic drag.

 

machining your own pulleys would be nice. I got the atkins 6rib kit for a project like this, that money hasnt existed for yet.

 

want to sell me one of those Supercharger adaptors? it seems like you have the means to make them easily

 

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if you are considering selling parts when you get somewhere with this I have a spare m90 laying around and the atkins 6rib pulley kit already ; ) just started suspension first.

 

Since I've been doing abit of research on this, if the M90 is right on the manifold where would the Bypass valve go?