The steering on Dodges is designed the saem as jeeps and is notorious for "death wobble" when something is worn, alignment is off, or geometry is changed by lifting, etc. The T steering has less affect on toe as the suspension moves.
Only the manifold charger. I drilled the wastegate bore until the cover barely sealed around the edges and radiused the back. I ported the Turbine inlet removing the casting junk and gasket matching it and the flange (since I made it the extension from the manifold). Beyond that the 67/76 turbine is it. I had to build a custom actuator bracket due to how I had to clock the manifold turbo. I'm running a "Turbo Tuner" to hold the gate closed until I hit a set amount of boost. Once it reaches the set point, the actuator follows at a 1:1 pressure change.. (ie if set at 40psi, when boost is 50psi the gate gets 10psi. when at 60 the gate gets 20 etc.) The atmosphere pair gates are blocked closed. I didn't make them permanent because I don't know if i will need 1st stage gating yet.
IF all 3 turbos were fed directly from the same engine exhaust it would be a parallel setup which would be the same as a giant single turbo. In Compound (or sequential) turbo setups the small manifold turbo starts spooling up and sending more air into the engine. The big (1st stage or Atmosphere) turbo is just hanging around but not making boost until it gets enough exhaust flow to get it going. Once the 1st stage starts compressing air that compressed air is feeding into the 2nd stage and it's compressed again. I am just wrapping my head around the variables. Effectively a big single turbo that can flow 120lbs/minute of air at its max would be very hard to spool until the engine was around the factory governed rpm of a 12 valve Cummins. A single He351cw might be able to make 500hp on a 12 valve but it will be at the edge of its map and the air would be less dense and hot because the turbo is at its max. Having the two stages each can be running at their best efficiency at 500hp.
intake elbow off of a 24 valve Cummins, and fabricating the rest.
Neat idea using a throttle body, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done that way before. Very cool!
Yeah makes sense, the shaft may not be able to handle that kind of pressure. The flapper also should probably not be bolted to the downstream side of that shaft, I could definitely see those two little screws just popping off and the plate getting sucked into the intake.
I like the looks and dual supply opening of the Banks cast units. I'd have to cut it up to add the emergency shut-off. I may go to cutting off the intake shelf and build one with an integrated shutoff. One thing I don't like about those is you have to remove the fuel lines to adjust the valves because of the way the custom lines route over them.
I like the way you think, and appreciate the feedback.
This site has a lot of real thinkers!
