How Many Guys Are Seriously Going Turbo Conversion
11-13-2008, 01:23 AM
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Its actually a Garrett 3076 .60 a/r. I took a lot of pics before I sold it to Curt. Honestly, I wish I would have kept it!
And that is actually not a Saab turbo manifold. It was designed by GM for the first Cavi ecotecs. They were going to turbo them but gave up on the project and we ended up with the LSJ.
And that is actually not a Saab turbo manifold. It was designed by GM for the first Cavi ecotecs. They were going to turbo them but gave up on the project and we ended up with the LSJ.
11-13-2008, 07:21 PM
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Its actually a Garrett 3076 .60 a/r. I took a lot of pics before I sold it to Curt. Honestly, I wish I would have kept it!
And that is actually not a Saab turbo manifold. It was designed by GM for the first Cavi ecotecs. They were going to turbo them but gave up on the project and we ended up with the LSJ.
And that is actually not a Saab turbo manifold. It was designed by GM for the first Cavi ecotecs. They were going to turbo them but gave up on the project and we ended up with the LSJ.
11-13-2008, 07:24 PM
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I disappointedly raise my hand. Depending on what the tech guys at Turbonetics say, I'm probably gonna be getting either a 60-1, or a GT-K 550. Either way, it'll be a little over 400 whp on 91 shitane. Race gas will make a **** load of power, since I have 9.5:1 compression.
11-13-2008, 07:32 PM
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11-13-2008, 07:49 PM
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It is not that hard to make this setup. The manifold was one that GM was going to use on a turbo cavy but they decided not to go that route. The guy who produced them is now stuck with them. They are still somewhat expensive. The turbo is a GT3076R/wg that you can get with the wastegate from ATP turbo. The down pipe was a J tube from a Silvia. There are TONS of these on ebay. Just go up there and look around and see what will fit. The oil feed line can be made up at any hydrolic store. The piping canbe done if you know how or a muffler shop at worst can make it up. Just go from the turbo to the MAF sensor (be sure to flare the pipe up to the MAF diameter as soon as possible. I made a bracket that connects the pipe to the tranny as well. This prevents it from blowing off. I used an axillary rail to feed fuel to the engine only under boost, but I suppose you could just tune in larger factory injectors. Also I used a 3.8" pulley to reduce the supercharger boost. You will need to make the means to fit an idler pulley that will allow this large of a SC pulley. Now for tuning I used the SMT6d to run the extra injectors and stage the 2 boost settings according to the throttle position. More or less the 3/4 TPS will kick the boost controller into high boost. There was some other tuning that I was doing with the SMT6 as well but this could be compensated with a good HP tuners tune. The good thing about my setup is that the majority of it is cast iron so there is very little chance of cracks or leaks. The car runs very strong. It put down 335whp last time it was on the dyno. Since then I added more than 14* of timing so now I see about 18* and I run better air fuel ratios. The car is even stronger now. There is more power in there too. The car pulls right to redline and never falls off. Upgrade the valvetrain and run more RPM, get more HP!!:bananahum
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11-13-2008, 09:25 PM
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Just wondering, because there are so may benifits, over supercharging.
140 more reliable hp over stock LSJ, Great fuel economy, Incredible torque rise, Less drag on engine turning S/C, Cooler sound, Anyone else want to add anything?
Plus if your going to run with the LNF it is a No Brainer.
140 more reliable hp over stock LSJ, Great fuel economy, Incredible torque rise, Less drag on engine turning S/C, Cooler sound, Anyone else want to add anything?
Plus if your going to run with the LNF it is a No Brainer.
car only went through a 5 year run, there's not going to be much support for it soon, everyone else will be jumping ship soon enough
11-13-2008, 10:30 PM
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that car had cheap potential, an ss/sc does not. the ss/tc may have a better chance, but without dumping a couple thousand $ into an ss/sc you won't see any decent power
11-13-2008, 10:42 PM
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it didn't have potential till it wasn't made anymore.. is what my point was.. and 2.8 pulley injectors exhaust tune and nitrous it'll see decent power for a cheaper price.. and the srt4 didn't see great power till you spend a few grand as well
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