Upgrading a Clutch for a Twin Turbo Kit

I'm definitely going to want to upgrade my clutch and the clutch in this car is it's pretty expensive, it's ridiculously expensive so an upgraded clutch for this cost between $5,000 and $10,000 dollars that's just for the clutch it's not including installation or anything like that. So I got lucky and my clutch is actually in good working condition hopefully everything stays together but I have a spec super twin clutch in this and this should be able to hold the power just fine. The stock clutch cannot hold the power of a twin turbo kit so that's why it's a good thing that I have a lot of these components on my car because otherwise I really wouldn't be able to afford it, it's literally tens of thousands of dollars just in materials.

If you're thinking about buying a cheap Guzzardi or an R8 or a Huracan then know that if you wanted to go the DIY route it's definitely doable but it costs a lot of money. It's gonna cost a lot of money, it's gonna nickel-and-dime you because you know $500 here $1,000 there that's gonna add up really quickly and you're gonna wonder why you didn't go with a regular kit beforehand now I'm not gonna wonder why because I got everything here basically with the car so that's that's the saving grace for this car.

However if you guys are doing it on your own you want to tackle something like this in your garage then that's something you definitely need to account for. Doing a DIY turbo kit on an exotic car is a hard thing to do, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I'm not gonna say that it's easy or that it's particularly fun but you can do if you have the determination, you have the raw materials and you have a good internet savvy where you can get a turbo or you can get some piping or you can get some of those really crucial components for next to nothing.

The savings can accumulate quickly as well so if you find a turbo that's used but it's still in good condition then you can get 50% off or somewhere thereabouts. If you have piping that somebody doesn't need you can get way less than what the retail retail cost is, then if you have an intercooler or if you have an ECU or you have injectors or fuel pumps all that stuff comes at an extreme discount if you find it used.

If we're going strictly by the prices that we've laid out in this video then you're looking at anywhere between ten and twenty thousand dollars to turbocharge one of these, that's not actually that bad considering that the lowest end kit is around $25,000 so you can get a fifteen thousand dollar decrease by doing everything yourself and have just as good a kit if not better because now it's built to your specifications.

However there are a lot of caveats here, it's gonna take a lot of sleepless nights, you're gonna have a lot of downtime with your car, things aren't gonna be under warranty some of these shops do have warranties so that's something to consider but for me yeah, so hope you guys like that, I hope you guys learn something. I certainly learned that it's actually a little more than I thought.

I thought there's gonna be a really simple DIY project and it's not gonna cost a lot of money but me putting the numbers in my head and recounting them for you that that actually it's it's a little more than I thought so if you want to do something like this save your pennies but stay tuned for the finale of this build well it's going to be coming up. I still have to do some more stuff, Tony's been welding, I've been wrenching and we're definitely going to get this thing done and we're gonna get it started and it's gonna sound awesome.

If you'd like to contact me you can do so at the real Tavarez Instagram and Twitter faced with.com slash asked of ours and asked of our said gmail.com is my email. You guys to send me a lot of emails on this car and this turbo kit and all the stuff and I enjoy every second of it. So keep it coming if you want to listen to me talk to a friend, really good friend and my partner in crime mr. Andrew Howell then you can listen to my wrench every day podcast is my every day podcast about cars.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys my name is divorce and today we are still working on my chief Lamborghinis turbo kit but instead of me showing you how all these pipes go together and how they're fabricated I'm gonna tell you how much everything costs so if you guys have new to my channel thank you so much for showing up hope you guys like it and subscribe if you like what you see for those of you not new in my channel and you've been following along in my antics then you'll know that this is my 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder and it is very very close to its first start up with a brand new custom made turbo kit that turbo kit was a labor of love not only by me well actually not not really by me I didn't do much but it had more to do with my friend and viewer and just all-around great guy his name is telling me and he's here to work on the boiler pipe what I what I call a baller pipe because it looks so baller but Tony actually said it looks like bullhorns and that makes a lot of sense because this is a bowl after all so I wanted to let you guys know how much everything cost including the turbos including everything so let's say if you bought a bone stock Lamborghini and you wanted to put a turbo kit on your own and you had a few welding skills well if you're Tony you have way more than few welding skills but if you have a decent amount of welding skills and you you'll be able to put this together how much does all that cost now before I answer that I actually wanted to talk to you about a few questions I got about this turbo kit now if we go right here and we check this out this is the turbo kit this is just the hot sides of the turbo so we can mock everything up and the exhaust is being welded as we speak but a few of you had some concerns about how everything was mounted and some of you were right and some of you were wrong and I'll tell you that we were all both half right and half wrong so this is a one of the pipes or rather down pipes and this is the other one and this is this turbo system is gonna be hard mounted to the body of the car now usually in most cars the turbo system has to be mounted to the engine or transmission or wherever because the mounting is very important you don't want to introduce any vibrations into this system and when you connect it to a hard mounted piece like the body then you might introduce vibrations because this pipe is connected to the engine and the engine definitely moves around however these pipes as you can see this pipe has a flex section as does this pipe this means that this can stay solid and that can move the issue that I'm having now is something I just figured out this morning is the fact that I mounted this one side is mounted to the transmission which does move and one side is mounted to the body which doesn't so what this is gonna do is that's gonna introduce a well it's gonna introduce a failure point because this is gonna move or it's gonna want to move this is gonna get restricted and I think this is gonna be our our culprit for any cracking of welding or or anything but what I don't want to happen is this transmission is actually made of aluminum and that aluminium casing can crack if indeed these welds are more strong than the aluminum surrounding so what I have to do is I have to figure out how to brace everything and still have all this rigidity because it is very very rigid I want to have all this rigidity and not have this mount or this mount you can actually see it a little better here so this is this is basically a no-no I just figured it out and for some reason I thought that this was hard mounted but it's not there's actually a rubber mounting right here and this allows the transmission to move and there's gonna be a lot of torque going through this transmission so that's something we have to take care of so before we get down to all the numbers and figures that go into a kit like this I want to show you some of the welding awesomeness that goes on in this garage that's actually going on in this garage as we speak so let's check that out now let's get down to the actual numbers of how much it costs to turbocharge a Lamborghini now there are a lot of kits off the shelf they can buy for a guy yard Oh a Huracan and even I believe in out er8 which is a very similar platform to this however those kits are extremely expensive they're anywhere between 25 and $100,000 depending on if you do some engine modification as well now if you want just a bare-bones kit if you want something that'll just get you in the door to having a turbocharged Lamborghini here's what you're gonna need one of these or rather two of these these are the turbo chargers and that's what provides the boost in your turbo charge system now I got BorgWarner EFR 83-70 fours and they're a little bit special because they're not like usual turbo charging systems where everything is external meaning that the waste gate and the blow-off valve is all external and you have to buy those items separately this has everything internally and it's all one really easily packaged unit however that means that these turbo chargers are quite expensive on their own this one cost me well the new one I bought cost me around 1,600 bucks and that was the cheapest one I can find online and the cheapest one I found locally as well they usually go for around twenty two to twenty five hundred dollars apiece so right out of the gate if you need to buy two of these things at their retail price you're looking at around five grand so on top of that you're actually going to need the piping and the piping is something that is actually not that hard to do if you're doing it yourself now those of you who have a little bit of welding skills a little bit of welding knowledge will understand that a pipe is a pipe and a weld is a well if you look at the basic layout of any twin turbo kit for a Lamborghini they all look sort of similar they all have the turbos in the back and they all have some sort of crossover pipe if not they just have pipes coming out the side right out of the exhaust it's sort of a remote mount turbo system and it makes stuff pretty easy and you can make it bolt on directly to the engine bolt on directly to the see and everything is pretty good now you can replicate that and I have replicated that here now in my project I didn't do the welding I actually had a friend viewer come by and help me with that and I'm very grateful for him but if you don't have one of these welding buddies that can help you out then you're gonna need to either learn to weld or gonna hire a welder so well there's worth their salt our worth well more than their salt you could actually buy a lot of salt with how much welders are charging but you're gonna be looking at between twenty-five and a hundred dollars an hour for the top-end welders and they can make everything fit they can make everything look really good but again it's gonna take a lot of time and it's gonna take a little bit of money or vice versa so the time aspect is really interesting as well because even though you can get everything done custom if you have a welder or if you have some welding knowledge and it's not actually that much money in piping per se I will get into that later but the time it takes to make these pipes and make everything fit and make sure it doesn't hit anything and make sure it's not in danger of burning anything because these are gonna be really hot exhaust pipes and you have to figure for thermal expansion because they're gonna move around a little bit after you've done all that that takes a very very long time now if you have been complaining about how long everything takes especially mocking up this turbo kit and let me show you why that is now when you make a turbo kit you have to have a pipe okay so you have a pipe it's just a regular three inch stainless steel let's say and it has a specific curve to it however that curve is not the correct curve for your car so you have to cut that curve now after you cut that curve you can't just slap it onto your car and eyeball everything well I mean you can but it's not gonna last very long you have to make sure that it's completely flat you have to make sure that it's not oval you have to make sure that it's it's not impure in any way you have to clean up that cut with a wire wheel you have to clean it up with a file and then you have to offer it up to the car at that point you can see if it needs any other curves to make a compound curve like we've done here and then you tack it in place sometimes you have to tack it up in place in the car and for that you have to make a jig that keeps everything in its relative space I did that with the wood planks that you guys you guys might have seen earlier but that's very very necessary because that lets me know where everything is gonna be sitting when everything's all finalized and welded up now after that you have to make sure that you back purged the weld especially on stainless steel if you don't back purge the welds then the welds become brittle on the inside they start to do something called sugaring which is very like it's just impurities in the weld and if it's bad enough then chunks of that could come off and go into your turbocharger which you probably just paid two grand for so you don't want to break that so after you've tacked everything in place and you checked three or four times that everything fits then you have to take it all off and then have it welded then weld everything up and make sure that you don't burn through anything make sure that you're not sugaring and then also make sure that you're not putting too much heat into it because the metal will warp when you weld a surface that's hot enough when it cools down it starts to pull the surrounding metal in it contracts so if you have something like a v-band clamp or you have something like a flange sometimes that metal can warp if it's too thin so you have to look out for this and then you always have to bring it back to the car see if it fits sometimes things move around things change and sometimes you do make mistakes with how you routed things I definitely made a mistake with these brackets I definitely have to take off some brackets and figure something out but that's why it takes so incredibly long so let me get to the pipes the pipes themselves actually aren't that expensive I got a full kit with 180 degree bends I got 90 degree bends forty fives and two straight sections and I got two kits just to make sure that I had all the bends we needed so each kit was around a hundred and fifty bucks so figured 300 bucks for the entire kit and I actually have a left over I mean I have I have four of these pipes and yeah I could definitely make an exhaust for any other car any other car that I get so it's always good to have some stainless steel pipe laying around you can go mild steel mild steel is a lot more affordable the hill only reason I didn't get mild steel is because mild steel has very bad rust preventative properties it doesn't prevent rust at all basically if you get any sort of water on it it's just gonna rust out and since exhaust has moisture in it inherently then it's it's not a good thing it's just gonna rust from the inside so stainless steel does not rust and it also looks pretty nice and it also some people say it sounds a little bit better but I'm not sure you need aluminum for the intercooler piping so the integral of piping that was around 100 bucks just got it off eBay I just got a two and a half and a three-inch kit so that comes with the intercooler piping it comes with the silicone couplers and the t-bolt clamps so that's all very very affordable in actual raw materials you're looking at probably less than 500 bucks that includes the flanges here you're gonna need some new turbo flanges so make sure you know what turbo you got I have a tee for turbo flange and make sure that well you can actually reuse the flanges that are stock on the car you might need to get new bunks for the o2 sensors if you have a thermal couple for cars like this they have a thermal couple basically it's a egt exhaust gas temperature sensor so this car definitely has one I think it might it might even have to so get bungs for that and then just drill that into your new exhaust and you have to weld that up everything is definitely definitely doable on a DIY budget if you save up a little bit of money and you know where to get stuff however there is another portion of this build where you do need to spend a little bit of money and that is with everything's heavy that's with this this is a air to water intercooler so what these systems do is it basically cools the charged air coming from the turbocharger now when the turbo spools up you're compressing the air and you're heating it up inherently so what this does is it either runs through a sort of radiator and it slows it down a little bit and it makes it a lot more dense so that gives you more power so mine does it through water and it's just like a radiator just goes through a membrane that's that has a lot of little fins and then it goes and that membrane is filled with water and that water is cycled so the water takes the heat and then exchanges it for cooler temperatures now then it goes into the engine and then the engine makes plenty of power at least that's the idea so for me I needed a tank for storing water I needed lines I needed a pump so figure all that the tank actually use a I can't learn even know where it is here it is this is a Junior Dragster tank it's actually a fuel cell but it's it's good enough for water anything that's rated for fuel can handle water usually so this is a one gallon and I'm not sure if this is gonna be big enough I took out a five gallon that was in here when I got the car but that took up the entire space in the front and that's the only storage in the car so yeah I'm not down with doing a road trip with no storage in the car this actually fits in the engine bay and I'm just gonna run lines from there to a pump then to my air to water intercooler now that costs around 80 bucks shipped so a good intercooler pump on the used market would probably be around 100 to 150 bucks depending on where you find it bosch makes really good pumps so one of those 150 and then you have to run the lines which usually are a n lines and those are regular and fittings it tend to be on the larger side maybe a n - 8 or - 10 and that goes into the intercooler so all that that's probably gonna be another 100 hundred 50 bucks so you're all into this around 500 bucks but that's not including the intercooler itself and my intercooler it's actually two intercoolers welded together so this can theoretically flow 1,500 horsepower I'm not sure how true that is but there are smaller intercoolers there are more compact ones those are actually pretty cheap you can get the relatively cheap there about a hundred bucks each but that's the lower end of the spectrum you can go crazy with it and you do have to make it fit your application mine was custom made so I have no idea how much that cost but figure aluminum welding with the time and materials and all that stuff it's probably more than a thousand dollars so this is turning out to be pretty pretty expensive actually now let's say you get everything situated you have all the lines ran you have the down pipes right in place you have the turbo setup you have your oil feed lines and your coolant lines and all that stuff ready to go then you're gonna have to do some tuning to the engine the engine unless it's a turbocharged car from the factory and you're just adding to it the engine is probably not going to recognize that you have a turbocharger system on your car and it's not gonna react very well now this engine is actually quite good at recognizing if it has more power and you can actually tune it pretty easily but even that even a flash tuned from a company like Titan or euro charge or some other company that deals with ECU's that would likely cost you 1,000 to 2,000 dollars you can get a standalone ECU and you can do your own tuning but those stand-alones are incredibly expensive for cars like this I actually have a standalone ECU on this car it's a Cybex s12 Cybex is a UK company and they make really good ECU's and they have a lot of different features but this ECU you'll pay for all those features because this is ten thousand dollars or there abouts so if you want to go the DIY route it's actually a lot cheaper just to go with your own ECU and then have it reflash just let them know what sort of mods you have and they should be able to take care of it for you there are a few kits that use the stock ECU especially for this car I think it's the same thing for the Huracan and the Audi r8 but another thing to look out for is the fuel system so the fuel system is definitely something that has to be upgraded when you do a turbo system or a supercharger system or you're adding power to end you have to you have to make sure that when you add air you have to add fuel as well so with this car it actually has to upgraded fuel pumps it has a TI automotive which is equivalent to a walbro for 50 gph gallon per hour fuel pump it has two of them because there are two fuel tanks in this car now this car did have pretty good fuel pumps to begin with I think they can flow up to around 850 wheel horsepower or thereabout whatever that that translates to in in turbos speak and an air volume and whatever but these are these outperform that by an order of magnitude and they're actually not that expensive they're about a hundred bucks apiece and you can find them anywhere now a lot of people go with the walbro 255 L pH which is 255 liters per hour and that's really popular with a lot of people in the Honda communities and Subaru communities and a lot of a lot of communities where you have low boost but with this you definitely need something bigger now fuel pumps aren't that expensive they're pretty easy to replace here you do have to take out the engine if you want to take out the fuel tank like I did but you don't have to take out the fuel tank to take out the fuel pumps because you can actually get to them behind the seats it's it's a little bit finicky it's it's really tight but you can do it so it's not really that hard it should be you can you can do it in a weekend and after all that is done you still have to get the car tuned so tuning the car is another can of worms altogether because everything you do if it's not done correctly and if you don't have everything completely on point your engine could blow if you don't have a really good tuner who knows what they're doing so tuning can cost a pretty penny I mean you can easily rack up thousands of dollars of tuning cost because you have to tune for all situations you can't just do one tune for power because you're not gonna be driving this thing at 10 cents all the time well I mean it could so they have to tune for part throttle part boost they have to tune for no boost have to tune for every single situation and even though ECU's are getting really good at this they still need that extra human touch to make sure that the car is reacting very well and they have to monitor the AFR's the air/fuel ratios and they have to monitor that nothing is well on fire back here but before you get to the tuning you also have to monitor the drivetrain and the drivetrain on this car it's actually really simple there's just two Drive shafts here there's one drive shaft that goes up front to the front differential and then there's two drive shafts that go out from there but when you show these driveshafts a lot of power they don't actually stay together all that well especially if you're doing something like a drag launch so you're gonna maybe want to upgrade your drive shafts but you're definitely going to want to upgrade your clutch and the clutch in this car is it's pretty expensive it's it's ridiculously expensive so an upgraded clutch for this cost between 5,000 and 10,000 dollars that's just for the clutch it's not including installation or anything like that so I got lucky and my clutch is actually in good working condition hopefully everything stays together but I have a spec super twin clutch in this and this should be able to hold the power just fine the stock clutch cannot hold the power of a twin turbo kit so that's it's a good thing that I have a lot of these components on my car because otherwise I really wouldn't be able to afford it it's it's literally tens of thousands of dollars just in materials so if you're thinking about buying a cheap Guyardo or an r8 or a Huracan then know that if you wanted to go the DIY route it's definitely doable but it costs a lot of money it's gonna cost a lot of money just in it's gonna nickel-and-dime you because you know 500 bucks here $1,000 there that's gonna add up really quickly and you're gonna you're gonna wonder why you didn't go with a regular kit beforehand now I'm not gonna wonder why because I got everything here basically with the car so that's that's the that's the saving grace for this car however if you guys are doing it on your own you want to tackle something like this in your garage then that's something you definitely need to account for and doing a DIY turbo kit on an exotic car is a hard thing to do I'm not gonna sugarcoat it I'm not gonna say that it's easy or that it's particularly fun but you can do if you have the determination you have the raw materials and you have a good internet savvy where you can get a turbo or you can get some piping or you can get some of those some of those really crucial components for next to nothing and just like parts costs can accumulate quickly the savings can accumulate quickly as well so if you find a turbo that's used but it's still in good condition then you can get 50% off or somewhere thereabouts if you have piping that somebody doesn't need you can get way less than what the retail retail cost is then if you have a intercooler or if you have an ECU or you have injectors or fuel pumps all that stuff comes at an extreme discount if you find it used what if we're going strictly by the prices that we've laid out in this video then you're looking at anywhere between ten and twenty thousand dollars to turbocharge one of these that's not actually that bad considering that the lowest end kit is around $25,000 so you can get a fifteen thousand dollar decrease by doing everything yourself and have just as good a kit if not better because now it's built to your specifications now there's a lot of caveats here it's gonna take a lot of sleepless nights you're gonna have a lot of downtime with your car things aren't gonna be under warranty some of these shops do have warranties so that's something to consider but for me yeah so hope you guys like that I hope you guys learn something I certainly learned that it's actually a little more than I thought I thought there's gonna be a really simple DIY project and it's not gonna cost a lot of money but me putting the numbers in my head and recounting them for you that that actually it's it's a little more than I thought so if you want to do something like this save your pennies but stay tuned for the finale of this build well it's going to be coming up I still have to do some more stuff Tony's been welding i've been wrenching and we're definitely going to get this thing done and we're gonna get it started and it's gonna sound awesome so if you'd like to contact me you can do so at the real Tavarez Instagram and Twitter faced with.com slash asked of ours and asked of our said gmail.com is my email you guys to send me a lot of emails on this car and this turbo kit and all the stuff and I enjoy every second of it so keep it coming if you want to listen to me talk to a friend a really good friend and my partner in crime mr. Andrew Howell then you can listen to my wrench every day podcast is my every day podcast about cars and that's gonna be in the link in the description below if you want to buy a shirt teespring link down below but until next time this is me telling you that on cars like this that don't have turbo kits right now because they're getting welded up but they're actually less money than you think with more money than I think you guys need to wrench every day youhi guys my name is divorce and today we are still working on my chief Lamborghinis turbo kit but instead of me showing you how all these pipes go together and how they're fabricated I'm gonna tell you how much everything costs so if you guys have new to my channel thank you so much for showing up hope you guys like it and subscribe if you like what you see for those of you not new in my channel and you've been following along in my antics then you'll know that this is my 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder and it is very very close to its first start up with a brand new custom made turbo kit that turbo kit was a labor of love not only by me well actually not not really by me I didn't do much but it had more to do with my friend and viewer and just all-around great guy his name is telling me and he's here to work on the boiler pipe what I what I call a baller pipe because it looks so baller but Tony actually said it looks like bullhorns and that makes a lot of sense because this is a bowl after all so I wanted to let you guys know how much everything cost including the turbos including everything so let's say if you bought a bone stock Lamborghini and you wanted to put a turbo kit on your own and you had a few welding skills well if you're Tony you have way more than few welding skills but if you have a decent amount of welding skills and you you'll be able to put this together how much does all that cost now before I answer that I actually wanted to talk to you about a few questions I got about this turbo kit now if we go right here and we check this out this is the turbo kit this is just the hot sides of the turbo so we can mock everything up and the exhaust is being welded as we speak but a few of you had some concerns about how everything was mounted and some of you were right and some of you were wrong and I'll tell you that we were all both half right and half wrong so this is a one of the pipes or rather down pipes and this is the other one and this is this turbo system is gonna be hard mounted to the body of the car now usually in most cars the turbo system has to be mounted to the engine or transmission or wherever because the mounting is very important you don't want to introduce any vibrations into this system and when you connect it to a hard mounted piece like the body then you might introduce vibrations because this pipe is connected to the engine and the engine definitely moves around however these pipes as you can see this pipe has a flex section as does this pipe this means that this can stay solid and that can move the issue that I'm having now is something I just figured out this morning is the fact that I mounted this one side is mounted to the transmission which does move and one side is mounted to the body which doesn't so what this is gonna do is that's gonna introduce a well it's gonna introduce a failure point because this is gonna move or it's gonna want to move this is gonna get restricted and I think this is gonna be our our culprit for any cracking of welding or or anything but what I don't want to happen is this transmission is actually made of aluminum and that aluminium casing can crack if indeed these welds are more strong than the aluminum surrounding so what I have to do is I have to figure out how to brace everything and still have all this rigidity because it is very very rigid I want to have all this rigidity and not have this mount or this mount you can actually see it a little better here so this is this is basically a no-no I just figured it out and for some reason I thought that this was hard mounted but it's not there's actually a rubber mounting right here and this allows the transmission to move and there's gonna be a lot of torque going through this transmission so that's something we have to take care of so before we get down to all the numbers and figures that go into a kit like this I want to show you some of the welding awesomeness that goes on in this garage that's actually going on in this garage as we speak so let's check that out now let's get down to the actual numbers of how much it costs to turbocharge a Lamborghini now there are a lot of kits off the shelf they can buy for a guy yard Oh a Huracan and even I believe in out er8 which is a very similar platform to this however those kits are extremely expensive they're anywhere between 25 and $100,000 depending on if you do some engine modification as well now if you want just a bare-bones kit if you want something that'll just get you in the door to having a turbocharged Lamborghini here's what you're gonna need one of these or rather two of these these are the turbo chargers and that's what provides the boost in your turbo charge system now I got BorgWarner EFR 83-70 fours and they're a little bit special because they're not like usual turbo charging systems where everything is external meaning that the waste gate and the blow-off valve is all external and you have to buy those items separately this has everything internally and it's all one really easily packaged unit however that means that these turbo chargers are quite expensive on their own this one cost me well the new one I bought cost me around 1,600 bucks and that was the cheapest one I can find online and the cheapest one I found locally as well they usually go for around twenty two to twenty five hundred dollars apiece so right out of the gate if you need to buy two of these things at their retail price you're looking at around five grand so on top of that you're actually going to need the piping and the piping is something that is actually not that hard to do if you're doing it yourself now those of you who have a little bit of welding skills a little bit of welding knowledge will understand that a pipe is a pipe and a weld is a well if you look at the basic layout of any twin turbo kit for a Lamborghini they all look sort of similar they all have the turbos in the back and they all have some sort of crossover pipe if not they just have pipes coming out the side right out of the exhaust it's sort of a remote mount turbo system and it makes stuff pretty easy and you can make it bolt on directly to the engine bolt on directly to the see and everything is pretty good now you can replicate that and I have replicated that here now in my project I didn't do the welding I actually had a friend viewer come by and help me with that and I'm very grateful for him but if you don't have one of these welding buddies that can help you out then you're gonna need to either learn to weld or gonna hire a welder so well there's worth their salt our worth well more than their salt you could actually buy a lot of salt with how much welders are charging but you're gonna be looking at between twenty-five and a hundred dollars an hour for the top-end welders and they can make everything fit they can make everything look really good but again it's gonna take a lot of time and it's gonna take a little bit of money or vice versa so the time aspect is really interesting as well because even though you can get everything done custom if you have a welder or if you have some welding knowledge and it's not actually that much money in piping per se I will get into that later but the time it takes to make these pipes and make everything fit and make sure it doesn't hit anything and make sure it's not in danger of burning anything because these are gonna be really hot exhaust pipes and you have to figure for thermal expansion because they're gonna move around a little bit after you've done all that that takes a very very long time now if you have been complaining about how long everything takes especially mocking up this turbo kit and let me show you why that is now when you make a turbo kit you have to have a pipe okay so you have a pipe it's just a regular three inch stainless steel let's say and it has a specific curve to it however that curve is not the correct curve for your car so you have to cut that curve now after you cut that curve you can't just slap it onto your car and eyeball everything well I mean you can but it's not gonna last very long you have to make sure that it's completely flat you have to make sure that it's not oval you have to make sure that it's it's not impure in any way you have to clean up that cut with a wire wheel you have to clean it up with a file and then you have to offer it up to the car at that point you can see if it needs any other curves to make a compound curve like we've done here and then you tack it in place sometimes you have to tack it up in place in the car and for that you have to make a jig that keeps everything in its relative space I did that with the wood planks that you guys you guys might have seen earlier but that's very very necessary because that lets me know where everything is gonna be sitting when everything's all finalized and welded up now after that you have to make sure that you back purged the weld especially on stainless steel if you don't back purge the welds then the welds become brittle on the inside they start to do something called sugaring which is very like it's just impurities in the weld and if it's bad enough then chunks of that could come off and go into your turbocharger which you probably just paid two grand for so you don't want to break that so after you've tacked everything in place and you checked three or four times that everything fits then you have to take it all off and then have it welded then weld everything up and make sure that you don't burn through anything make sure that you're not sugaring and then also make sure that you're not putting too much heat into it because the metal will warp when you weld a surface that's hot enough when it cools down it starts to pull the surrounding metal in it contracts so if you have something like a v-band clamp or you have something like a flange sometimes that metal can warp if it's too thin so you have to look out for this and then you always have to bring it back to the car see if it fits sometimes things move around things change and sometimes you do make mistakes with how you routed things I definitely made a mistake with these brackets I definitely have to take off some brackets and figure something out but that's why it takes so incredibly long so let me get to the pipes the pipes themselves actually aren't that expensive I got a full kit with 180 degree bends I got 90 degree bends forty fives and two straight sections and I got two kits just to make sure that I had all the bends we needed so each kit was around a hundred and fifty bucks so figured 300 bucks for the entire kit and I actually have a left over I mean I have I have four of these pipes and yeah I could definitely make an exhaust for any other car any other car that I get so it's always good to have some stainless steel pipe laying around you can go mild steel mild steel is a lot more affordable the hill only reason I didn't get mild steel is because mild steel has very bad rust preventative properties it doesn't prevent rust at all basically if you get any sort of water on it it's just gonna rust out and since exhaust has moisture in it inherently then it's it's not a good thing it's just gonna rust from the inside so stainless steel does not rust and it also looks pretty nice and it also some people say it sounds a little bit better but I'm not sure you need aluminum for the intercooler piping so the integral of piping that was around 100 bucks just got it off eBay I just got a two and a half and a three-inch kit so that comes with the intercooler piping it comes with the silicone couplers and the t-bolt clamps so that's all very very affordable in actual raw materials you're looking at probably less than 500 bucks that includes the flanges here you're gonna need some new turbo flanges so make sure you know what turbo you got I have a tee for turbo flange and make sure that well you can actually reuse the flanges that are stock on the car you might need to get new bunks for the o2 sensors if you have a thermal couple for cars like this they have a thermal couple basically it's a egt exhaust gas temperature sensor so this car definitely has one I think it might it might even have to so get bungs for that and then just drill that into your new exhaust and you have to weld that up everything is definitely definitely doable on a DIY budget if you save up a little bit of money and you know where to get stuff however there is another portion of this build where you do need to spend a little bit of money and that is with everything's heavy that's with this this is a air to water intercooler so what these systems do is it basically cools the charged air coming from the turbocharger now when the turbo spools up you're compressing the air and you're heating it up inherently so what this does is it either runs through a sort of radiator and it slows it down a little bit and it makes it a lot more dense so that gives you more power so mine does it through water and it's just like a radiator just goes through a membrane that's that has a lot of little fins and then it goes and that membrane is filled with water and that water is cycled so the water takes the heat and then exchanges it for cooler temperatures now then it goes into the engine and then the engine makes plenty of power at least that's the idea so for me I needed a tank for storing water I needed lines I needed a pump so figure all that the tank actually use a I can't learn even know where it is here it is this is a Junior Dragster tank it's actually a fuel cell but it's it's good enough for water anything that's rated for fuel can handle water usually so this is a one gallon and I'm not sure if this is gonna be big enough I took out a five gallon that was in here when I got the car but that took up the entire space in the front and that's the only storage in the car so yeah I'm not down with doing a road trip with no storage in the car this actually fits in the engine bay and I'm just gonna run lines from there to a pump then to my air to water intercooler now that costs around 80 bucks shipped so a good intercooler pump on the used market would probably be around 100 to 150 bucks depending on where you find it bosch makes really good pumps so one of those 150 and then you have to run the lines which usually are a n lines and those are regular and fittings it tend to be on the larger side maybe a n - 8 or - 10 and that goes into the intercooler so all that that's probably gonna be another 100 hundred 50 bucks so you're all into this around 500 bucks but that's not including the intercooler itself and my intercooler it's actually two intercoolers welded together so this can theoretically flow 1,500 horsepower I'm not sure how true that is but there are smaller intercoolers there are more compact ones those are actually pretty cheap you can get the relatively cheap there about a hundred bucks each but that's the lower end of the spectrum you can go crazy with it and you do have to make it fit your application mine was custom made so I have no idea how much that cost but figure aluminum welding with the time and materials and all that stuff it's probably more than a thousand dollars so this is turning out to be pretty pretty expensive actually now let's say you get everything situated you have all the lines ran you have the down pipes right in place you have the turbo setup you have your oil feed lines and your coolant lines and all that stuff ready to go then you're gonna have to do some tuning to the engine the engine unless it's a turbocharged car from the factory and you're just adding to it the engine is probably not going to recognize that you have a turbocharger system on your car and it's not gonna react very well now this engine is actually quite good at recognizing if it has more power and you can actually tune it pretty easily but even that even a flash tuned from a company like Titan or euro charge or some other company that deals with ECU's that would likely cost you 1,000 to 2,000 dollars you can get a standalone ECU and you can do your own tuning but those stand-alones are incredibly expensive for cars like this I actually have a standalone ECU on this car it's a Cybex s12 Cybex is a UK company and they make really good ECU's and they have a lot of different features but this ECU you'll pay for all those features because this is ten thousand dollars or there abouts so if you want to go the DIY route it's actually a lot cheaper just to go with your own ECU and then have it reflash just let them know what sort of mods you have and they should be able to take care of it for you there are a few kits that use the stock ECU especially for this car I think it's the same thing for the Huracan and the Audi r8 but another thing to look out for is the fuel system so the fuel system is definitely something that has to be upgraded when you do a turbo system or a supercharger system or you're adding power to end you have to you have to make sure that when you add air you have to add fuel as well so with this car it actually has to upgraded fuel pumps it has a TI automotive which is equivalent to a walbro for 50 gph gallon per hour fuel pump it has two of them because there are two fuel tanks in this car now this car did have pretty good fuel pumps to begin with I think they can flow up to around 850 wheel horsepower or thereabout whatever that that translates to in in turbos speak and an air volume and whatever but these are these outperform that by an order of magnitude and they're actually not that expensive they're about a hundred bucks apiece and you can find them anywhere now a lot of people go with the walbro 255 L pH which is 255 liters per hour and that's really popular with a lot of people in the Honda communities and Subaru communities and a lot of a lot of communities where you have low boost but with this you definitely need something bigger now fuel pumps aren't that expensive they're pretty easy to replace here you do have to take out the engine if you want to take out the fuel tank like I did but you don't have to take out the fuel tank to take out the fuel pumps because you can actually get to them behind the seats it's it's a little bit finicky it's it's really tight but you can do it so it's not really that hard it should be you can you can do it in a weekend and after all that is done you still have to get the car tuned so tuning the car is another can of worms altogether because everything you do if it's not done correctly and if you don't have everything completely on point your engine could blow if you don't have a really good tuner who knows what they're doing so tuning can cost a pretty penny I mean you can easily rack up thousands of dollars of tuning cost because you have to tune for all situations you can't just do one tune for power because you're not gonna be driving this thing at 10 cents all the time well I mean it could so they have to tune for part throttle part boost they have to tune for no boost have to tune for every single situation and even though ECU's are getting really good at this they still need that extra human touch to make sure that the car is reacting very well and they have to monitor the AFR's the air/fuel ratios and they have to monitor that nothing is well on fire back here but before you get to the tuning you also have to monitor the drivetrain and the drivetrain on this car it's actually really simple there's just two Drive shafts here there's one drive shaft that goes up front to the front differential and then there's two drive shafts that go out from there but when you show these driveshafts a lot of power they don't actually stay together all that well especially if you're doing something like a drag launch so you're gonna maybe want to upgrade your drive shafts but you're definitely going to want to upgrade your clutch and the clutch in this car is it's pretty expensive it's it's ridiculously expensive so an upgraded clutch for this cost between 5,000 and 10,000 dollars that's just for the clutch it's not including installation or anything like that so I got lucky and my clutch is actually in good working condition hopefully everything stays together but I have a spec super twin clutch in this and this should be able to hold the power just fine the stock clutch cannot hold the power of a twin turbo kit so that's it's a good thing that I have a lot of these components on my car because otherwise I really wouldn't be able to afford it it's it's literally tens of thousands of dollars just in materials so if you're thinking about buying a cheap Guyardo or an r8 or a Huracan then know that if you wanted to go the DIY route it's definitely doable but it costs a lot of money it's gonna cost a lot of money just in it's gonna nickel-and-dime you because you know 500 bucks here $1,000 there that's gonna add up really quickly and you're gonna you're gonna wonder why you didn't go with a regular kit beforehand now I'm not gonna wonder why because I got everything here basically with the car so that's that's the that's the saving grace for this car however if you guys are doing it on your own you want to tackle something like this in your garage then that's something you definitely need to account for and doing a DIY turbo kit on an exotic car is a hard thing to do I'm not gonna sugarcoat it I'm not gonna say that it's easy or that it's particularly fun but you can do if you have the determination you have the raw materials and you have a good internet savvy where you can get a turbo or you can get some piping or you can get some of those some of those really crucial components for next to nothing and just like parts costs can accumulate quickly the savings can accumulate quickly as well so if you find a turbo that's used but it's still in good condition then you can get 50% off or somewhere thereabouts if you have piping that somebody doesn't need you can get way less than what the retail retail cost is then if you have a intercooler or if you have an ECU or you have injectors or fuel pumps all that stuff comes at an extreme discount if you find it used what if we're going strictly by the prices that we've laid out in this video then you're looking at anywhere between ten and twenty thousand dollars to turbocharge one of these that's not actually that bad considering that the lowest end kit is around $25,000 so you can get a fifteen thousand dollar decrease by doing everything yourself and have just as good a kit if not better because now it's built to your specifications now there's a lot of caveats here it's gonna take a lot of sleepless nights you're gonna have a lot of downtime with your car things aren't gonna be under warranty some of these shops do have warranties so that's something to consider but for me yeah so hope you guys like that I hope you guys learn something I certainly learned that it's actually a little more than I thought I thought there's gonna be a really simple DIY project and it's not gonna cost a lot of money but me putting the numbers in my head and recounting them for you that that actually it's it's a little more than I thought so if you want to do something like this save your pennies but stay tuned for the finale of this build well it's going to be coming up I still have to do some more stuff Tony's been welding i've been wrenching and we're definitely going to get this thing done and we're gonna get it started and it's gonna sound awesome so if you'd like to contact me you can do so at the real Tavarez Instagram and Twitter faced with.com slash asked of ours and asked of our said gmail.com is my email you guys to send me a lot of emails on this car and this turbo kit and all the stuff and I enjoy every second of it so keep it coming if you want to listen to me talk to a friend a really good friend and my partner in crime mr. Andrew Howell then you can listen to my wrench every day podcast is my every day podcast about cars and that's gonna be in the link in the description below if you want to buy a shirt teespring link down below but until next time this is me telling you that on cars like this that don't have turbo kits right now because they're getting welded up but they're actually less money than you think with more money than I think you guys need to wrench every day you\n"