Turbo Dragon time!

[Wheel House Motorsports]

Been helping my buddy put together a turbo kit for his dragon, sourced most of the parts for him and helping him weld up the stuff we did ourselves.


Thanks to

Justin Silber - lots of oddball parts, oil tank, clutching, etc.
Dobeck performance - fuel solution
kPa turbos - ball bearing goodness.
2cool air vents - fresh air for setup

Here is the breakdown.

Wahl Bros anti-ratchet drivers
KPA 2871 ball bearing turbo
silber's clutching, turbo inlet, charge tube, and airbox
2cool shock tower and knee vents to keep this thing cooled down a bit.
DIY Gen3 fuel controller so we can setup and do custom programming to get the thing exaclty how we want it to run.
3" stainless bellydump downpipe

some pics of the progress.
downpipe before we cut it to length

oil outlet dongle with check valve setup to prevent burning oil during rollover

DIY controller and the 2 5/8" boost gauge.

everything all bolted in! (never snapped a pic once we trimmed the downpipe)
we also moved the stock exhaust delfector to the downpipe to prevent bogging.

 

[bart0678]

Nick kinda surprised not to see my name under the sponsor list. I supplied half pint with that sexy down pipe tubing.
looks good boys
Adam

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

haha yeah, that stuff worked out awesome. stainless rod, stainless pipe and a little polish. i was impressed how good it looked!!

 

[joshkoltes]

why arent you puting that motor in the tubie??

 

[jeepin270]

Can you give more info about the diy dobeck box? what is needed to have the program and use it. Also did you make the oil tank roll over valve or does silber sell them?

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

why arent you puting that motor in the tubie??

its not mine and he doesnt have the $$ to build one

Jeepin... http://diytuningsolutions.com/

you get a programmer and a powerlab account so you can adjust the zones, functions, etc and can make the tuneups yourself. Its can be a lot to understand at first but if you spend the time its got some very powerful software/interface for a piggyback system. and $300-325 for programmer, account and controller, hard to say no to.

we made the outlet dongle. pretty easy to rig up. and used some scrap stuff. think it cost like $2

 

[jeepin270]

can you give details on making rollover valve. thanks

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

it looks just like a normal outlet donge, we just slightly overdrill the tube to put a ball bearing that doesnt fit throught the turbo side and you put the pin to keep the ball in. this way when you roll, it sits on the turbo side and keeps the oil from pouring back in unrestricted.

 

[sleding4life]

You guy's could start a new TV show called little people big sleds.

 

[Boyko]

Man you guys are just pumping out the sleds, that one is going to be a one fun ride.

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

Man you guys are just pumping out the sleds, that one is going to be a one fun ride.

there is always something fun going on around the shop!

waiting on a clutch rebuild setup so we can put the primary together and to install the BOV but hopefully have the sled out this weekend for a rip!!

 

[Boyko]

I had a turbo dragon in 2007, It was the 700, I still think it one one of the funnest sled I ever rode, I must have fallen off it or flipped it +200 times

 

[catmann]

its not mine and he doesnt have the $$ to build one

Don't charge so much!

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

haha, we got this turbo kit going for around what most people have into a garrett turbo... SOOO, the chassis is WAY out of the picture. for now...

 

[catmann]

Don't forget the camera if you get it out this weekend.

Is this similar to the 900 turbo Josh had?

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

This is a short video edit of the sled from Saturday. Played with tuning a hair Friday night in the field and took it to the hills. Runs really well on 6#. I would say 90% tuned. Needs a little clean up on the bottom end to make it crisp but very happy with how easy it was to setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBg5UJY0U7E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[catmann]

Looking good Nick!

 

[One]

Straight slurpin!

 

[Brandro]

NICK I made it onto Snowest!!!

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

good work, now you can keep an eye on the lies i post about your sled.