Comments on: What Is Necessary For Just A Turbo Install?

By: Red

Red — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:42:44 +0000

Heh… well have fun blowing the motor up.
Extra boost will increase greatly the compression inside the motor, with stock internals you’ll kill the motor within a few months. Also, you’d need to run a completely new exhaust system, or at least a new downpipe to the stock exhaust. You’re also looking at oil coolers, blow off valves to prevent over pressurizing the system, and then of course there’s the tuning…
My recommendation? Skip it. If you want power either do it right or don’t do it at all.
Additional Details: Why do you think copying and pasting the question would change the answer? Look, if you really REALLY don’t care about the car, you can do it somewhat cheaply:
Get a new header and downpipe
Get a new intake
Pay for tuning (seriously, it doesn’t have to be GOOD tuning, but it has to be tuned, or the car won’t run at all, much less make more power).
That should get you running, but i”m not kidding when I say it’s likely you’ll throw a rod within a few weeks if not a month or two.

By: Price

Price — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:25:53 +0000

Additionally, your stock motor will have a much higher compression ratio that an engine that was designed for a turbo. Provided you don’t generate too much boost, this will translate to more power. You will limit the overall effectiveness and driveability of the added turbo without some major engine tunning to include a reprogramed ECU, or an added “piggy-back” unit. This will be required to control adding fuel into the intake when under boost or at idle. If you are salvaging the kit from a junkyard, get the computer, as well as the intake manifold, fuel injectors, air intake plumbing, and any sensor connected to the above. Lastly, the size is critical, a single, large unit will take a long time to spool up, creating “turbo lag” while a smaller one will spool up quiker, but be less effective at higher RPM. Most newer turbo cars are duel units that have a small unit for lower RPM and a larger one for higher RPM.

By: Rapid Fire

Rapid Fire — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:30:38 +0000

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Hope the link works. I gleaned it off someone else’s answer. Just delete the inter-cooler and that will give you a rough idea of what you need to make the turbo work.
Before attempting it, I would recommend reading up a bit on turbocharging though. Although the installation is fairly straight forward the dynamics can be a trifle complicated.