My turbo build

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Stock hood on still hitting pretty bad, about 2”s here’s a pic all the way down. Worse case scenario I’ll have the compressor side sticking out of the hood or I’ll see if I can maybe bubble it up to clear the compressor side.

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Still no response from the eBay company that made the turbo kit. I’m not surprised. I’m going to end up cutting the stock hood and selling the SS hood.

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One of my neighbors does body work, he just looked at it, said he’ll cut it out for me. He’s busy so maybe next week. $100 , not bad.

[2.8 Bird]

How's it running Steve? Congrats on finally putting it in. Looks awesome!

Theres a number of v6 owner who have this installed and I've never heard of them having issues with their hood....interesting.

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It’s idling great, haven’t been able to tune it because of the hood. Soon as that is fixed I’ll tune it.
Yeah before I bought the kit, I asked the eBay company if the Gt35r would fit and they said it would, since you can run bigger turbo’s supposedly. They lied.

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Found the place where I posted the eBay turbo and the GT35R, thread eBay turbo , 4 pages in, just a few threads below mine .Mines alittle taller but not much. Plus the eBay seller said it would work. I still have the emails from them.

[2.8 Bird]

I forgot, you have a better turbo than the one that came with the ebay turbo.

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/29314090635...iABEgJ4YfD_BwE

I looked at this one again Robert, might work, I’ll see how much he cuts to make it fit.

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Got my heat shield on, and my open air filter, not going to have room for a normal air filter, might put the battery in the trunk later on. Hopefully get the hood situation solved this next week and tune it. Then get the down pipe routed to the exhaust and new tires put on.

[2.8 Bird]

Looks really good. Your turbo is huge.

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Looks really good. Your turbo is huge.

Thanks Edgar, it’s only about 1/2” to a 1” taller on the compressor side. I’ve looked at the turbos side by side and not too much difference.

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Got the hood cut today, needs some touch up but I’ll do it later on. The eBay hood should work, but have to use hood pins. Looks like it’s going to rain here so no tuning today. Hopefully this week.

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Here’s one with it painted. Not going to do much to it since I’ll be getting a new hood.

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Going to take the Camaro out tomorrow for some tuning, should be nice weather. Hopefully not much traffic. At idle my air intake temps are at 70 degrees so that’s good.

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Post some videos of your run.