ok ive seen some pics on remote mounted turbos and even twin turbos under the hood. Ive also seen and heard you can make your own turbo set up at home for a relatively in-expensive price compared to a complete kit. I am curious as to what I would need to go out and get my own turbo kit and some do's and dont's please. If you got a power adder on your turd gen post up

 

The first and most important step IMO is doing your homework. Turbo system design and installation is way too in depth for you to get the info spoon fed to you.

 

Tubing, Mig Welder, junkyard turbo and a rebuild kit. My cousin was doing it to his stang before he decided 450hp was enough.

 

ok but what size turbo do i need. I have been schooled on turbos somewhat. I know i need low compression for anything over 8 psi boost. I am looking for parts list and what not basically

 

For what?



How are you going to build a turbo system if you can't even figure out what parts you need?

 

well that is why i made this thread so that i may research and locate parts one at a time. If i knew everything was to know i wouldnt have made a thread asking for help now would i

 

thats what the button is for, this thread is just you being lazy..

 

ALL Your answers are here........

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/sear...searchid=81353

 

Do post your engine specs
Do post what you intend to do with the car: race or street
Do post if you want to run race fuel

 

 

Id like it to be stock motor for now and mostly street with the occassional strip useage. No race fule for me either for now.

Thanks for helping since others wanna act a fool. I dont want my turbo spoon fed to me or whatever you @$$clowns are suggestung i would like some insight on turbos for the 3rd gen.

 

There are a few stock TPIs around here with twin Garrett T3 turbo setup and all seem to run between 6-10PSI on the street with pump gas. You can run more boost with more intercooler, and/or lower compression.

Probably not a good idea to say stuff like that about two of the smarter people on the Power Adder board. I don't think that will get you much help from them.

Hey, watch were you are going.......you almost ran over that kid standing in front of your car.

Anyway, stick with twin T3s or twin T3/T4 hybrids or twin small Holsets or go with a single T6 or Holset HX.

 

it has nothing to do with disrespecting but i make a simple turbo column and get crap for it. If you dont wanna answer or have nothing to add to this thread then dont respond. I dont see how getting negative response like i did has helped me atall.

Thanks for the reply.

 

It is really not a big deal. Everyone likes to polish up their horns sometimes.

What are you planning, a stock 5.0L or a stock 5.7L? TPI or TBI intake motor? The year might help also. I think the 1989 TPI has the biggest cam of them all and would give the most HP with the turbo(s).

89JYTurbo has an excellent write up / thread about his homebuilt (that looks factory) twin turbo setup he made. I did a thread about a homebuilt twin setup that I made (it is a second gen. though) but has some decent turbo info in general in terms of engine setup stuff. My second gen setup is a lot like 89JYTurbo's setup.
There is also a couple of threads dedicated to turbo 305ci that should be recent within the last month. There is a thread at the top called "show your power adder" or something with lots of turbo pics. There are a few threads of 3rd gens with turbos and carbs also that are recent. The threads will help you decide on if you want to use EFI or carb.


BTW, if you go with twins and buy from Ebay.......you will have to compete with all the import drivers with the dream to go single turbo. The sad part is that they jack up the prices and never use the turbo anyway. They usually just get re-sold......horse traders looking for a Stallion, but all riding Donkeys.

Once you decide on what you want for turbos, check the local junkyards first.

 

i dont want anything too drastic. I have the L98 TPI on a 1991 camaro. Id like to have a possible 50-100 horses and will rebuild the motor if neccessary considering motor is already out and busted ALso im spraying the nitrous as well

 

I used this thread the most, just b/c I went the single route.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/powe...o+IROC+project

For some pretty good general info on how to get started, try this one.
If you are new, read this info on getting started

Also, since no one has mentioned this yet, the books Turbochargers by Hugh Macinnes and Maximum Boost by Corky Bell have very good information on what you need for turbocharging your vehicle.

Like it has been said a few times, the most important thing to do is to research before you begin anything else. It cost you nothing and can save you money down the line. Read the turbo build-up threads and books, and you'll know what you need to do to successfully turbocharge your car.

I included my build-up component list just so that you can get an idea of a lot of the parts that you'll need to purchase (and some you don't since you're fuel injection). I would've posted my senior project report that I just finished on my project, but it is .6MB too big (.pdf).

Good luck! =)

 

thanks for th e posts and i will read it after i get home from work tonight. I wasnt ever intending on getting a turbo done anytime soon and this is apart of my researching is getting ideas from those that have been down this route before

 

Get the books called "turbochagers"by Hugh McIllian ( somthing liek that )

and Maximum boost by Corkey Bell

 

Nice, jackass!

Notice that most of the responses that don’t tell you to get off your lazy fat *** and do a search just give you a link to another thread on the board. You haven’t asked any questions that haven’t been discussed in detail around here and for the life of me, I don’t know why people are at all interested in doing a search for you and then posting links.

Judging from the stuff on your linked your web site at least your consistently stupid and lazy, at the very least at least get your kids some ear muffs rather then damaging their hearing and posting pics and comments about it:
(right off your car domain site under a picture of a little boy that looks like his head is going to explode)

 

Ok he choose to stand there and watch the drga cars do their qualifing runs, Dont sit there and judge me dumbass if you dont know me. Did you miss my post that says please dont post if you have nothing to offer. I hate stupid people like you. I never asked anyone to go out of there way for me. If someone has time to post sumpin up about it then cool...if not that is also cool. Im in no hurry. Go tkae your attitude to somewhere else please. It isnt welcome here at all. Seems this site ive gotten more attitude then anything else.

 

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Both of those books will be very worth reading, and then re-reading.

Just for clarification:
Turbochargers by Hugh MacInnes
Maximum Boost by Corky Bell

 

Thanx man , I didn't have them readily availabel at the time

 

i was looking to do pretty much the samething i just want to run a single setup like calebzman i really like it and he spend like $2000 thats about what i got to spend 10lbs of boost is the most i want to run i have a set of hooker 2055s could i use these to make my turbo header from? what are some good single turbos to look at?

 

careful........you might get flamed for not using the ghey search button. Im glad this thread might possibly help others as well.