**The Turbored Shopping Go-Kart**
As I stood in front of the shopping go-kart, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The goal was to mount a turbocharger on this humble vehicle and see what kind of performance boost we could achieve. With the oil coming in through the top, it looked like everything was working as planned - except for one major detail.
As we looked at the bottom of the engine, we could see the oil draining out quickly, which was a good sign that the oiling system was indeed working. But I couldn't shake off the feeling that something was missing. That's when I remembered that we had to grind down a nut almost in half to make it fit through a tiny hole. It was going to be a tricky process, but I was determined to see it through.
With the vise grips in hand, I carefully positioned myself to hold the throttle body together on the other side. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything at the hardware store that would fit, so we had to get creative. We ended up grinding down almost half of a nut to make it work. It was a bit of a hack, but it would have to do.
As I continued to work on the go-kart, I realized that this was going to be the first startup with the turbocharger mounted. The exhaust flange was already in place, and we had found some little bolts around the shop for the compressor housing. It all looked pretty tight, but I knew it wouldn't last.
To get everything hooked up just like before, I spent a few minutes reassembling the wiring and connections. But that was when I realized that there were no charts or pipe fittings to be found at the hardware store. That meant we wouldn't be making boost tonight - not yet, anyway. We'd have to order some adapters and wait for them to arrive before we could see what this thing really had under the hood.
Finally, it was time to fire up the go-kart. I primed the pump, gave a thumbs-up to my friend, and hit the start button. The engine roared to life, and as it warmed up, the exhaust flange started to glow with heat. We took it for a spin, watching as the wheels spun and the kart moved faster and faster.
The free-revving was intense - we were pushing over 2,000 RPM before we even hit any real speed. And when I flicked on the throttle, the go-kart shot forward like a bullet. It was amazing to see how quickly it could accelerate with just a little bit of boost. We managed to get it spinning in the back bar, and for a moment, we thought it might actually pop wheelie.
But as we took it for another spin, I couldn't help but feel a sense of disappointment. The engine was making some air, but we weren't really getting any boost yet. That was partly because we were just free-revving - this thing needed to be under load and in gear before we could see the real performance.
As we pulled back into the garage, I couldn't help but feel excited about what's to come. We're going to get this thing mounted up properly, with a new oil reservoir and fuel tank, and we'll see just how much power it can really produce. There are still some tweaks needed - the wiring is still a mess, and we need to figure out how to make the charge pipe work.
But for now, I'm just happy to have seen what this thing can do with a little bit of turbocharged muscle. And who knows? Maybe one day we'll be racing around the track, leaving all the competition in our dust. That's the dream, at least.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys today is the day you have all been waiting for we are finally putting the little turbocharger on the shopping go-kart so in the last video we got this thing running on the EFI kit from eco Tron's and that was really cool because we were able to watch all the sensors in real time we have this harness that came with it and this plug down here is actually what went to our laptop we plugged it in started this thing up and we were seeing rpm in real time we were getting readings from the TPS and map sensor and it was constantly sending data back to the laptop and we can monitor all that live which was really awesome and this thing is no longer carbureted anymore we now have this little throttle body with a single fuel injector and that is going to help us tremendously when we go to tune the air fuels for this thing when we do get our turbo charge or making boost so I'm really excited guys we still have a lot more work to do I still need to get a fuel tank made for our pump we need a reservoir for the oil system for the turbo still but in today's video I'm going to focus on trying to get this little guy installed onto the engine so we had some extra stainless steel pipes laying around the shop and I believe these are inch and a half but this is the same size as our current exhaust on the go-kart right now and my plan is to cut this guy a little short this is just a 90-degree tube obviously I'm just gonna cut it short a little bit and well that guy right here and then I am going to be welding one of these flanges on to the top of that and then that should put our turbo somewhere in this range about like that is what I want I want to be able to see the side of the compressor housing I want it to look good and also be functional but I think that's where I want to do it so the only issue I'm running into right now is if you guys remember in the last video I had mentioned that these flanges right here were not the right size and I was getting ready to just make my own flange out of this eighth inch steel I was going to put that guy on there trace it out drill the holes as needed and just make my own but I found out it would probably be a lot easier just to use this flange right here all I have to do is line up one hole and then this big one-inch hole right here will line up perfectly so these two in line and then all I have to do is cut some slits right here just to bring the holes over and I'll be able to get some bolts on the corners of those and it will still clamp down nice and tight so that is what I'm gonna be doing with these flanges I literally I'm just gonna cut two slits all the way to the edge and completely open these holes up and we'll be able to reuse those and then this exhaust flange right here will work for me as well I just have two oval out this one just barely so I am really excited I'm not sure how far we're gonna get on this thing today guys but today I am finally going to install this turbo this shouldn't take me too long at all honestly literally just weld this on and weld the flange on and get it all bolted down and then we'll just see where we can go from there I may be able to start running the oiling system and stuff like that and maybe we can even fire this thing up later today and see if this thing wants to spool up a little bit I'm sure you guys are excited right now the day has finally come it's been forever but it's going down today by the end of this video the shopping go kart will officially have its own turbo alright guys check it out I got the turbo all mounted up and I went ahead and kind of hung up the oil pump is just suspended in the air right now because this is all the tubing I had laying around but we're actually gonna run over to the hardware store I'm gonna pick up some more tubing and I'm gonna see if I can just kind of get a rig up the oiling system just to try to test things out I also need to get some bolts for this little compressor housing to hold that guy on there and then I'm also gonna see if I can find some sort of an adapter to adapt this like inch and a half on the throttle body to the one inch outlet on the turbo possibly find something to route that over and make a charge pipe and I also need to see if I can find like a little stud or allen head bolt that will fit in this second hole on the throttle body because if you guys remember I just had a vise grips holding that shut because I couldn't find the right one for it so if we're just gonna run to the hardware store and see what we can find and I'd like to try to fire this thing up tonight and just have the little oiling system running and just make sure it's all working good what do you think of that Pedro do some twins on your car like this just paint the whole thing like that can you make our bathroom look like that they don't that would pink yeah probably wasn't the best idea to bring them the triggers so sensitive I know I'm just over here beating up my van stand back I stand back some whatever that's like hail damage bro you're giving your van helden imagine that be in your face all right guys we got back from the hardware store and the only thing I was able to find was just some more tubing to finish the oiling system for the turbo I ended up moving this little reservoir over to the backside right here then we just have the pump right here that just comes up to the top of the turbo and then the drain just goes right back into our reservoir I already went ahead and put oil in it because you can see there is oil in the line I primed it up already just to make sure everything was working and we also went ahead and plugged everything back up to get ready to start this thing up but I was gonna show you guys the little pump real quick it's kind of cool it doesn't stay running continuously but I ground it right here it kind of goes in little pulses you can hear it just kind of twitching so now well you can hear that but it's just clicking right now and it moves the oil in little pulses it's really hard to see the oil coming in through the top there but then when you look at the bottom yeah you can see it draining out right there so it is working so that's pretty cool and then I'm assuming it's probably gonna start moving more once everything warms up because then the oil will start to thin out but we do have the oiling system working but yeah we got everything hooked back up just like how we did in the last video and once again I do have to use vise grips to hold that throttle body together on the other side because I went to the hardware store and there's literally nothing there that would fit that I think what we're gonna have to do is grind a nut almost in half not quite all the way down to the hole but take a good chunk of a nut off so it will fit down in there and then drill this all the way through and run a bolt through the backside to tighten it I'll take it off in another video and show you guys there's just no room so I'm not sure how they expected you to bolt that on but got the vise-grips back on there for now but yeah this is going to be the first startup of the shopping go kart with the turbo on it we also got the exhaust flange on there with this little dump tube I just tacked on there for right now and we did happen to find some little bolts around the shop for that compressor housing so that is nice and tight but we're gonna go ahead and get this thing fired up let it warm up for a bit get some oil flowing through the kirbo and rev it up and see how this thing reacts to it and unfortunately we couldn't find anything to make charts pipes at the hardware store so she is not going to be making boost tonight so I need to order some adapters and that will be coming in another video but we'll see how this thing runs for right now with just the turbo mounted on there all right we got our pump going you'll pump is primed and yeah yes we'll see what happens fire it up real quick let's so stick right there what do you think bro is that twin-turbo CRX ready oh yeah dude it's moving some air though it is no it's not dude that is gonna work it's completely unloaded - that's just free-revving and it's spooling it up pretty hard so imagine it like you don't wonder loader on the dyno it's gonna make some dude eyes you know it was already fast what is he gonna do now yeah a little shopping cart you're gonna smoke the tires or it's gonna pop wheelie in that back bar is gonna hit the grass yeah I put some wheelie bars on this thing yeah yeah I'm starting to flow faster now that it's warming up you can see it Hey Oh yeah did you see that I taped down the fingers yeah I taped down the fingers to flick you know I noticed I was like what's wrong in this blow it so am I not hilarious yeah we got to do it again because they weren't here alright guys we are getting out of here for tonight we got the turbo mounted on the shopping go kart and it is definitely moving some air and I was really surprised how much it was pushing even though we're just free revving this thing I really do think this is gonna work especially under load when it's in gear and driving so I'm really excited to see how this does we got her mounted up and I still have a lot of work to do I know the wiring still a wreck like how it was last time I need to get a legit oil reservoir made and a legit fuel tank made I just wanted to see everything kinda work real quick before I start fabbing it up because I didn't know where I was gonna mount the turbo and stuff like that but I have a really good idea on how to do everything but yeah really excited to get this thing going I'm gonna leave everything hooked up how it was because it actually took me a minute to remember how everything went together I'm just gonna leave it like this so it will be kind of in my way and when I'm not busy like with the mr2 or whatever else we're doing this is definitely gonna be getting some work done on the side but uh yeah turbos on there we spun it up pretty good and a lot more to come on this thing I know you guys been waiting on it and I'm gonna do my best to get her up and going as soon as I can so I'm gonna order some parts to get the charge pipe brand and actually get this thing making some boost get a wideband on there get a boost gauge hooked up see how much this thing can actually make and we'll go from there but that's going to be it guys hope you enjoyed and thanks for watchingwhat's up guys today is the day you have all been waiting for we are finally putting the little turbocharger on the shopping go-kart so in the last video we got this thing running on the EFI kit from eco Tron's and that was really cool because we were able to watch all the sensors in real time we have this harness that came with it and this plug down here is actually what went to our laptop we plugged it in started this thing up and we were seeing rpm in real time we were getting readings from the TPS and map sensor and it was constantly sending data back to the laptop and we can monitor all that live which was really awesome and this thing is no longer carbureted anymore we now have this little throttle body with a single fuel injector and that is going to help us tremendously when we go to tune the air fuels for this thing when we do get our turbo charge or making boost so I'm really excited guys we still have a lot more work to do I still need to get a fuel tank made for our pump we need a reservoir for the oil system for the turbo still but in today's video I'm going to focus on trying to get this little guy installed onto the engine so we had some extra stainless steel pipes laying around the shop and I believe these are inch and a half but this is the same size as our current exhaust on the go-kart right now and my plan is to cut this guy a little short this is just a 90-degree tube obviously I'm just gonna cut it short a little bit and well that guy right here and then I am going to be welding one of these flanges on to the top of that and then that should put our turbo somewhere in this range about like that is what I want I want to be able to see the side of the compressor housing I want it to look good and also be functional but I think that's where I want to do it so the only issue I'm running into right now is if you guys remember in the last video I had mentioned that these flanges right here were not the right size and I was getting ready to just make my own flange out of this eighth inch steel I was going to put that guy on there trace it out drill the holes as needed and just make my own but I found out it would probably be a lot easier just to use this flange right here all I have to do is line up one hole and then this big one-inch hole right here will line up perfectly so these two in line and then all I have to do is cut some slits right here just to bring the holes over and I'll be able to get some bolts on the corners of those and it will still clamp down nice and tight so that is what I'm gonna be doing with these flanges I literally I'm just gonna cut two slits all the way to the edge and completely open these holes up and we'll be able to reuse those and then this exhaust flange right here will work for me as well I just have two oval out this one just barely so I am really excited I'm not sure how far we're gonna get on this thing today guys but today I am finally going to install this turbo this shouldn't take me too long at all honestly literally just weld this on and weld the flange on and get it all bolted down and then we'll just see where we can go from there I may be able to start running the oiling system and stuff like that and maybe we can even fire this thing up later today and see if this thing wants to spool up a little bit I'm sure you guys are excited right now the day has finally come it's been forever but it's going down today by the end of this video the shopping go kart will officially have its own turbo alright guys check it out I got the turbo all mounted up and I went ahead and kind of hung up the oil pump is just suspended in the air right now because this is all the tubing I had laying around but we're actually gonna run over to the hardware store I'm gonna pick up some more tubing and I'm gonna see if I can just kind of get a rig up the oiling system just to try to test things out I also need to get some bolts for this little compressor housing to hold that guy on there and then I'm also gonna see if I can find some sort of an adapter to adapt this like inch and a half on the throttle body to the one inch outlet on the turbo possibly find something to route that over and make a charge pipe and I also need to see if I can find like a little stud or allen head bolt that will fit in this second hole on the throttle body because if you guys remember I just had a vise grips holding that shut because I couldn't find the right one for it so if we're just gonna run to the hardware store and see what we can find and I'd like to try to fire this thing up tonight and just have the little oiling system running and just make sure it's all working good what do you think of that Pedro do some twins on your car like this just paint the whole thing like that can you make our bathroom look like that they don't that would pink yeah probably wasn't the best idea to bring them the triggers so sensitive I know I'm just over here beating up my van stand back I stand back some whatever that's like hail damage bro you're giving your van helden imagine that be in your face all right guys we got back from the hardware store and the only thing I was able to find was just some more tubing to finish the oiling system for the turbo I ended up moving this little reservoir over to the backside right here then we just have the pump right here that just comes up to the top of the turbo and then the drain just goes right back into our reservoir I already went ahead and put oil in it because you can see there is oil in the line I primed it up already just to make sure everything was working and we also went ahead and plugged everything back up to get ready to start this thing up but I was gonna show you guys the little pump real quick it's kind of cool it doesn't stay running continuously but I ground it right here it kind of goes in little pulses you can hear it just kind of twitching so now well you can hear that but it's just clicking right now and it moves the oil in little pulses it's really hard to see the oil coming in through the top there but then when you look at the bottom yeah you can see it draining out right there so it is working so that's pretty cool and then I'm assuming it's probably gonna start moving more once everything warms up because then the oil will start to thin out but we do have the oiling system working but yeah we got everything hooked back up just like how we did in the last video and once again I do have to use vise grips to hold that throttle body together on the other side because I went to the hardware store and there's literally nothing there that would fit that I think what we're gonna have to do is grind a nut almost in half not quite all the way down to the hole but take a good chunk of a nut off so it will fit down in there and then drill this all the way through and run a bolt through the backside to tighten it I'll take it off in another video and show you guys there's just no room so I'm not sure how they expected you to bolt that on but got the vise-grips back on there for now but yeah this is going to be the first startup of the shopping go kart with the turbo on it we also got the exhaust flange on there with this little dump tube I just tacked on there for right now and we did happen to find some little bolts around the shop for that compressor housing so that is nice and tight but we're gonna go ahead and get this thing fired up let it warm up for a bit get some oil flowing through the kirbo and rev it up and see how this thing reacts to it and unfortunately we couldn't find anything to make charts pipes at the hardware store so she is not going to be making boost tonight so I need to order some adapters and that will be coming in another video but we'll see how this thing runs for right now with just the turbo mounted on there all right we got our pump going you'll pump is primed and yeah yes we'll see what happens fire it up real quick let's so stick right there what do you think bro is that twin-turbo CRX ready oh yeah dude it's moving some air though it is no it's not dude that is gonna work it's completely unloaded - that's just free-revving and it's spooling it up pretty hard so imagine it like you don't wonder loader on the dyno it's gonna make some dude eyes you know it was already fast what is he gonna do now yeah a little shopping cart you're gonna smoke the tires or it's gonna pop wheelie in that back bar is gonna hit the grass yeah I put some wheelie bars on this thing yeah yeah I'm starting to flow faster now that it's warming up you can see it Hey Oh yeah did you see that I taped down the fingers yeah I taped down the fingers to flick you know I noticed I was like what's wrong in this blow it so am I not hilarious yeah we got to do it again because they weren't here alright guys we are getting out of here for tonight we got the turbo mounted on the shopping go kart and it is definitely moving some air and I was really surprised how much it was pushing even though we're just free revving this thing I really do think this is gonna work especially under load when it's in gear and driving so I'm really excited to see how this does we got her mounted up and I still have a lot of work to do I know the wiring still a wreck like how it was last time I need to get a legit oil reservoir made and a legit fuel tank made I just wanted to see everything kinda work real quick before I start fabbing it up because I didn't know where I was gonna mount the turbo and stuff like that but I have a really good idea on how to do everything but yeah really excited to get this thing going I'm gonna leave everything hooked up how it was because it actually took me a minute to remember how everything went together I'm just gonna leave it like this so it will be kind of in my way and when I'm not busy like with the mr2 or whatever else we're doing this is definitely gonna be getting some work done on the side but uh yeah turbos on there we spun it up pretty good and a lot more to come on this thing I know you guys been waiting on it and I'm gonna do my best to get her up and going as soon as I can so I'm gonna order some parts to get the charge pipe brand and actually get this thing making some boost get a wideband on there get a boost gauge hooked up see how much this thing can actually make and we'll go from there but that's going to be it guys hope you enjoyed and thanks for watching\n"
