So im abit worried that my T04Z and my downpipe will be to heavy for my manifold to handle, so im afraid it will crack on the track.

Anyone has some pictures of a good way to build one? I was thinking about building one that uses the mounting points to the stock air pump. And then when i next year remove the water pump and go to electric waterpump i can use one of the rods for the waterpump housing.

What do u guys think?

So if anyone has some pictures of how they look like it would be great. So that i can get an idea of how to build it.

JT

 

is a it custom manifold or something? i dont see it in your mods list? its tube style i take it? i bet it will be fine unless the manifold has super long runners that dont curve at all

 

Yeah it's a custom manifold. It's in a race car so it will see alot of heat and alot of g forces. So im ofc worried about it breaking. Don't want that to happen when im at the track.

So if anyone has made one, or has some pics of someone elses turbo support system it would be great.

JT

 

Not sure if you need a turbo brace, rodends or bushings ?

First, convert the temperatures the brace is going to see from degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius. Just for the sake of simplicity, lets say the brace will see temps from -40 degrees F (winter) to 200 degrees F (summer), that will give us a delta T of 240 degrees F. Convert that to Celsius or Kelvin (its all good) and get 121 degrees.

Next, convert the length of your brace to meters (http://onlineconversion.com works nicely). Then, plug your length into the equation:

Delta L = 17.3*L*Delta T

Delta L is change in length of your brace in meters
17.3 is the coefficient of thermal expansion for stainless steel
L is the original length of your brace
Delta T is the change in temperature in Celsius (plugging in 121 for it will work)

If your brace is a foot long and the underhood temps get to be 300 degrees Fahrenheit, your brace will lengthen about 0.0025 inches, or about the width of six hairs lined up side to side. Rodends should work just fine.

Just to give you a little perspective of underhood temps, paper will start burning once temperatures reach 451 and most plastics melt between 200 and 450.