1987 Turbo SR5
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workerdrone
Part time fulltimer
Very nice 
I had an '87 turbo truck for a few years, loved it. Beat the snot out of it, eventually blew the motor, put in a low mileage new motor from a junkyard with a bigger turbo, fun fun fun.
I actually enjoyed the 80's turbo feel - lots of lag and then wham! as the boost came up - fun in the middle of a corner
I think they didn't sell too many of them because they were expensive at the time
I had an '87 turbo truck for a few years, loved it. Beat the snot out of it, eventually blew the motor, put in a low mileage new motor from a junkyard with a bigger turbo, fun fun fun.I actually enjoyed the 80's turbo feel - lots of lag and then wham! as the boost came up - fun in the middle of a corner
I think they didn't sell too many of them because they were expensive at the time
A lot of updates and a first start video link
Long time not posting, been quite busy but lots of progress.
Found a nice little spot to slip in my oil cooler.
Had gotten a nice little Amazon gift card so bought the billet aluminium oil cooler adapter from Earls, it's temperature controlled!
Here is the bumper all mounted up, lights installed, wiring ran and switch mounted in the cab.
From the inside just the AUX driving LED's on
swapped out the stock alternator with the Jaguar one getting me to 120amps of power for future use.
Had a buddy fab up new power steering lines
Made up some new Stainless heater lines for the rear heater and for lower radiator hose.
Cut and welded the old exhaust to the new 3" downpipe
Took the radiator down to Macs and had them pressure test and clean it, played around with some paint on the fan shroud, installed all new silicone vacuum lines and covered everything near the turbo with either titanium/fiber header wrap of SS heat sleeve in an effort to keep radiatory heat down.
tac-n-stacked some mild steel here as I'm going manual and don't need to access the torque converter bolts.
Installed the new flywheel with ARP bolts
Drained all the gas, put in new non-ethanol for the first start
I filled her up with Joe Gibbs break in oil and gave her a spin with Megasquirt all wired and loaded up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdbhxAH1Go
:sombrero:
Long time not posting, been quite busy but lots of progress.
Found a nice little spot to slip in my oil cooler.
Had gotten a nice little Amazon gift card so bought the billet aluminium oil cooler adapter from Earls, it's temperature controlled!
Here is the bumper all mounted up, lights installed, wiring ran and switch mounted in the cab.
From the inside just the AUX driving LED's on
swapped out the stock alternator with the Jaguar one getting me to 120amps of power for future use.
Had a buddy fab up new power steering lines
Made up some new Stainless heater lines for the rear heater and for lower radiator hose.
Cut and welded the old exhaust to the new 3" downpipe
Took the radiator down to Macs and had them pressure test and clean it, played around with some paint on the fan shroud, installed all new silicone vacuum lines and covered everything near the turbo with either titanium/fiber header wrap of SS heat sleeve in an effort to keep radiatory heat down.
tac-n-stacked some mild steel here as I'm going manual and don't need to access the torque converter bolts.
Installed the new flywheel with ARP bolts
Drained all the gas, put in new non-ethanol for the first start
I filled her up with Joe Gibbs break in oil and gave her a spin with Megasquirt all wired and loaded up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdbhxAH1Go
:sombrero: