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Thanks man hopefully it goes okay!

Well you may favour my optimism if this works wouldn't have happened without it

I guess we will find out! ;)

Updates woohoo! Look what we have here fellas! This is the new location for the turbo, the bracket is bolted down and that is where the turbo will bolt onto. It wasn't bolted down yet hence why there is no video of first start up! Cant wait! Tomorrow im going to drill holes in the bracket so that i can bolt the turbo on and see if this puppy runs! So if there are no problems tomorrow there should be a video up soon of first start up!

I can't use the core of the turbo because the end of the shaft that needs to be run off the belt goes inside the core, so once its inside it can't be run off anything.. Yeah just find out I guess. But first things first trying to mount it.. Made a bracket today but after making it it sat too high and wouldn't fit under the unit above, it basically needs to sit flat right above the bolt I had the bracket attached to but then the turbo can't sit that flat, it's driving me nuts haha

Thanks dude! Well it will still compress the air just spinning the impeller with a electric motor instead of gases or a pulley, as long as the impeller is spinning at the right speeds it will make boost, I'm having real trouble finding somewhere to mount this turbo.. It may be easier to actually put it in place of the aircon unit

Haha yeah man, but now I'm thinking why not just run off the belt that's already there.. I could just mount the turbo under neath the power steering unit somewhere and run it straight off the belt, no need for new pulleys or new belts

I had an idea, instead of running a new pulley and a new belt.. Why don't I just find somewhere to mount it and run it straight off the belt that's already there? Then I don't need to get rid of aircon and put it in its place I could just mount it somewhere else on the belt, attach a rubber bush on the end of the shaft so the bush wears out and not the belt, the bush will be easier to replace than a belt, I'll still get the step up in rpms needed so I don't see any problems in trying it, anyone thoughts on this?

We looked at that Colin as that is what me and my brother were going to do with his turbo to start with but there aren't any strong enough at 12v to spin that fast all the electric turbos that make power that people sell for just as much as a standard turbo setup use 3 battery's haha

This whole thing is an experiment so im going to experiment while its here, We don't know what its going to do or what its going to need, Im doing this so other people know either yes it can be done or no might as well just do it how everyone else does it. I'm just doing something different If it turns out yes it actually makes boost and gets hot. Then its not the end of the world to just take the belt off till we get a intercooler or whatever I'm experimenting so everyone knows what is required and what isnt

The only thing is the aircon pulley is apart of one belt between the P/S and the crank. But i would need another belt running off the aircon to the shaft of the turbine. But if you remove the belt from the crank and P/S then the aircon wont spin

Is it possible to just disconnect all the aircon stuff and leave it all in the car? and just use the pulley in the mean time so that if this project ends up being scrapped its all just threre to hook back up again?

I was thinking about that, I am going to wait to see if this actually makes any power, I'm not to keen to go slapping a few hundred at a fmic and it doesn't actually need it haha I have thought about removing air con and fitting to where that pulley was actually,i may end up going that route we will see

The overflow bottle in that photo isn't actually connected so it won't be like that usually! But that's a very good idea! Thanks morgey

Thanks colin! Will have a look round

Does anyone have any suggestions for what piping to use? The outlet on the turbo is pretty small!

Hahahaha probably ;) But we will see! haha

For those of you who are interested i have some photos of where i was brainstorming! Emphasis on brainstorming... So in this photo you can see a pulley the turbo and a screwdriver ;) So the pulley that you can see that is where it is going to bolt onto. The P/S pulley nut i have replaced with a longer nut so that i can put a bolt through the other pulley and tighten into the nut on the P/S pulley so they will spin as one. The screwdriver is just there to hold it in place because i had no bolts that size at home haha. The turbo will be mounted up in this area somewhere so that the shaft is p

That's the one colin ;) I am going to use a belt now, going to bolt another pulley onto the a/c pulley and run the shaft off that pulley, safer and probably work.better also much easier haha

Yeah im N/A dude haha There isn't that many availible over here dude, and to ship the stuff is expensive as hell

Since a few of you are freaking out about the chain and stuff. I have thought of a much safer way of doing it. No chain no sprockets. Its not about how much boost im wanting. It is purely a project to see if it is possible to make something from a old turbo that can actually make boost. Some people don't have the money to buy a whole turbo setup. Sure the ct9 would be the better option to go obviously but thats not the point

Just stick around for the ride guys if it works it works

Guess we will find out right

Only problem with those is they need to go onto the end of a shaft and they have no hole in the center :/

You are a genius! But they dont ship to nz -.- will keep looking tho! now i know what they are called!