Just curious , coming from other turbo cars , is anyone considering making the new TC cars externally gated? What would be the possible problems?

 

not really worth it to try and do with the stock turbo but i am deffinetly gonna do this when i upgrade hopefully this spring or summer

 

yeah not worth it. Only if you do a turbo upgrade

 

I second that. I'll consider going external if/once I do a turbo upgrade. I'm pretty happy with how the stock internal one sounds. After about 500 miles is started to wake up and now at 1700 miles its really starting to sound nice! I'm intrigued to hear a couple external ones though and hear a modded TC with one!

 

well in the WRX community, it even helped with the little td04. Spool was amazing. And that was only at 14lbs. With our turbo capable of 20+ , I still think it would be a worthy upgrade, and it will be there for when one does go bigger.

 

yeah but when i go bigger im gonna go tubular mani so it wouldnt really help me much

 

You cant put an external gate on our turbo's, the wastegate is right beside the turbine wheel. For it to work they'd have to be separate.

 

o8blackss/tc is getting a gt3076r put on his car and the stock manifold was moded to accomodate for an external waste gate. ask him for the link to the picture.

also synapse turbo said they were going to try and make multiple manifolds for an arrangement of different turbos and they were going to try and sell one with external waste function but i have not heard any newer info on their manifolds for a while now. best to ask the source.

 

just as peachpuff stated: CANNOT be done with STOCK turbo, only aftermarket

 

huh........ wastegate doesn't make sound the bypass does. the wastegate reg. boost.

 

I'll be runnng a external tial bov on mine

 

th waste gate does make sound its just very loud on internal ones when it opens the exhaust note gets a little more beafy i heard it alot more when i took the muffler off

 

wrong!

external wastegate makes a sound louder then a bov..... they release exhaust gases into the air to reduce exhaust back pressure which creates a loud ass noise

thats why our cobalts are internal because external are used for bigger turbo applications

 

I know what the wastegate does and what sounds it does and doesn't make. the context that he was using made me believe that what he was reffering to was a bov/bypass and not a wastegate. you don't buy a aftermarket wastegate for sound.

 

lol my fault bro, now that i look back at how he said it i see where ure coming from

 

i swear someone makes a new thread about this every day

 

lol no problem. a tial 38mm on a equal length such as synapse's manifold would deff be nice for tuning and such but the garret/percision turbos that are intern. do a pretty good job reg. boost. so I'm not sure if its cost effective to buy a manifold and gate?...