mikeyd
Gold Member
Been working on this for a couple weeks steady. Got it operational tonight. I need to finish grinding the welds and paint. I used a MHI TD03-7g turbo off a small Kubota diesel. I had to rebuild it, but was no big deal. Figuring out where to place it and run the oil lines and the air ducts took quite a while. I plan to make my own high mount air filter this weekend. Was a bit of a pain with placement in order to clear everything. Made all flanges from flat stock. Got mandrel bent tubing from Jegs. Tremendous improvement in performance, I did turn up the pump, can go quite a bit more but I'm waiting for the pyrometer to arrive before I crank it anymore. Proof of performance is that prior to turbo the highest speed I could reach in high gear with the 27" Essex surefoot tire kit was 17mph( was near 30mph with stock worksites as I had already turned up the pump when I first got the machine). Now I easily and quickly reach 27mph in high with the Essexs' on. I have a ton of pics from beginning to end. If you guys want the pics of the fit up etc. I will be glad to post them.Below are a few of the project as I had it running tonight. Enjoy!!