Hey guys. So a lots been going on lately. Theres been a lot of questioning on how exactly to approach this turbo build. So I wanted to go over a few things.
My 2007 Envoy has 102k Miles on it. I am the second owner. The first was a guy that took obsessive care of the vehicle. however after talking to him it seems he was originally on Trailvoy website and had planned on becoming one of the Turbo Gods that walk among us. Originally my plan was to rip out the engine, and upgrade everything short of rods, pistons, crank etc. you know, the big stuff.
Now this still might happen, but where I am running into problems is that at 65k miles he had replaced a few things. Notably the rod bearings, and a freshen up on the timing chain.
After seeing proof of these actions I am now questioning if I will pull it out and tear into it.
Whats your thoughts?
I'm hoping some of you remember Conekiller, Mike with the silver turbo envoy? After blowing up his email for the past few days ive seen some things about his turbo build that weren't originally posted and I thought I would bring them up to see what everyone thinks.
The first and biggest is that per his words his oil feed to his turbo came from a sandwich adapter between his oil filter, then he drilled into the pan for the return line, Thoughts?
Stock Fuel Pump,
Custom built Up Pipe compared to buying the Lime-Swap one,
Basically I want to open this up to questions, comments, concerns, even ideas. If this build is going to happen I want to be able to give back to this community and make some sort of outline for this build. Of which, after the replies on here come in, would be partly built "By the Community"
Thanks Guys