Refurbished Turbo - Hot Side Engine Reassembly
Posted on Jul 18, 2019
The turbo won. Turns out it takes longer to find a unicorn aftermarket intake manifold than it does to refurbish a turbo. Well it does if you are a professional outfit like G-Pop Shop https://gpopshop.com/
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So we’re going to assemble the exhaust side next. First we’ll need a heat shield:
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Our new exhaust manifold fit well but we did have to shorten some studs to get the nuts on.
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The rest was easy bolt on stuff. New gaskets of course.
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And we think we’ve found an intake manifold. Subscribe if you want to find out what kind.
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![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/32914546907_a7c833bc1a_c.jpg)
So we’re going to assemble the exhaust side next. First we’ll need a heat shield:
![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47003591714_09d2e6bd79_c.jpg)
Our new exhaust manifold fit well but we did have to shorten some studs to get the nuts on.
![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/40834075253_1fda9dbe59_c.jpg)
The rest was easy bolt on stuff. New gaskets of course.
![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48016029928_e71b8bdf5b_c.jpg)
![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48016104652_836b559823_c.jpg)
![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48016018116_d2eac26eac_c.jpg)
And we think we’ve found an intake manifold. Subscribe if you want to find out what kind.