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The worm clamp it came with I adjusted to be snug on the rubber base of the cone filter and taut enough to barely fit between the three turbo muffler bolts heads.

Trying to keep with the automotive theme I picked up a intake cone filter to use as a lamp shade.

This makes it easily accessible and makes the exposed wire between the exhaust and intake housing purposeful. I picked up an inline switch to add to the exposed wire in between the exhaust and intake housing. Because I wanted to recess the lamp bulb socket in the intake housing I couldn’t access the on/off switch.I also routed the wires in and out of the exhaust housing to keep the wire more contained and along the side of the turbo. This goes between the turbo and the DV and has little holes the wires can go through. I also wanted to retain having the DV on the turbo so I used a BOV spacer I had lying around.

This leaves only the diverter valve orifice as the one I will using. I wanted to use the intake outlet for the bulb, and leave the inlet open to see the turbine. So I would need to enter through one of the other orifices of the intake housing. The intake housing where the light bulb will be doesn’t have any open cavities to the exhaust housing.

Routing the wire wasn’t obvious to me at first.

This kit is cheap, you wont see much of it anyways once I am done.

I picked up a basic lamp wiring kit which made things significantly easier.

It should not collapse under the weight of the turbo and will prevent scratching and dings. Its hard to bend which means it was very hard to cut in a circle. This is easily the stiffest and strongest felt I have dealt with. I picked up some heavy duty felt sheets that I measured and cut to go over the exhaust housing outlet.

Its heavy and metal so I needed something to go between it and the surface it will be sitting on.

It took a fair bit of time with a stiff brush along with dish soap and water to get it acceptable to be placed inside a house. There are both oil and coolant lines going to the turbo and I had a leaky valve cover spraying oil all over it.

It surprisingly was balanced well enough that if I place it vertically on the exhaust housing outlet it can stand up straight. With the turbo itself being so neat looking, to begin with, I didn’t have to do much to it. Either way, I am going to be putting my spin on it. It turns out there were already turbo lamps being sold on the internet so I was disappointed this wasn’t an original idea. Morphing the combustion engine turbo into an electric lamp symbolizes the eventual movement to electric vehicles. I found it fitting due to this to make a lamp out of the turbo. Although turbos are more popular than they used to be, it’s now electric cars that are the future and will eventually replace combustion engines. But sadly that is not turning out to be the case. I thought turbos would be in all cars eventually. Over the last few decades, combustion vehicles have been moving to forced induction (turbocharger/supercharged engines) to get better power out of smaller engines while still getting great gas mileage. So I decided to make something that would display it.Īfter much thought, I had an idea. Turbos are really interesting pieces of machinery and I don’t think most know just how cool they look. Due to the extra play in the shaft caused by the failed bearing, the turbine blades were starting to nick the turbo housing. I recently had a bearing go in my stock IS20 turbo on my GTI.