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Installing Turbos and Custom Piping

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1500HP Twin Turbo Coyote Mustang Build: My Second Turbo Kit EVER! (From The Archives)

What happens here

The twin turbochargers are mounted onto the modified exhaust manifolds within the engine bay. Custom intercooler piping (charge pipes) and exhaust piping are then routed and installed. To aid in tack-welding pipes when working alone, a technique involving cutting a small slot in painter's tape to secure the joint is demonstrated. This helps hold the pieces in alignment until they can be tack-welded. Initial rough cuts are also made in the fender wells to accommodate the new turbo components, with plans for later refinement. The custom-painted blue charge pipes are installed, giving the engine bay a finished look.

Goal: Mount turbos and route custom exhaust/intercooler piping.

Tools and materials

  • Angle Grinder
  • Painter's Tape — To temporarily hold pipes during tack welding

What they say

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one-handed oh wait here we go starting to make some more progress here um saturday night at 11 o'clock i got the fingers hogged out that's just a rough cut i'm gonna go in there and clean it up later but uh the end is gonna come out and clean that up and it's gonna the engine is gonna get painted black too so i'm not worried about that right now i just gotta make the pipes under a time constraint jig's finished i had to put these little feet on here to keep it from rotating when the turbos are hanging turbos are mocked up attacked into position and i've been working on the connection pipe here which i just sorted out what i'm gonna show you a little tip here how i do it to hold my tube and tack it i just cut a little slice out of the tape here put a little tack and then i'll go to the other side and do the same thing that way you don't have to worry about fiddling with it with your hands this is just kind of a quick way to hold it together when you don't have you know any extra hands to do it because if you tack it on one side without being held in the other when it cools it'll separate because it'll shrink and uh just keeps it from doing that it works pretty well how i do it because i'm always by myself when i'm doing it

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