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cool tittle huh ...i like it well i just wnated to vent my depression today being as how its xmas families gather and i was talkign to my brotherin-law(hes a mechanic) and telling him how i wanted to buy a turbo kit for my car and he said he had an extra one he didnt want and would give to me for only 600 and help me put it on 
YES!!!! but then just to bust my ***** he discovered my engine wouldnt be able to handle it because it was meant for 4.0l engine and well he said mine couldnt handle it 
dam!!! now my question is why is it that my engine couldnt handle it what would happen??? to my engine???
YES!!!! but then just to bust my ***** he discovered my engine wouldnt be able to handle it because it was meant for 4.0l engine and well he said mine couldnt handle it dam!!! now my question is why is it that my engine couldnt handle it what would happen??? to my engine??? 
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Originally Posted by civicspeedster
cool tittle huh ...i like it well i just wnated to vent my depression today being as how its xmas families gather and i was talkign to my brotherin-law(hes a mechanic) and telling him how i wanted to buy a turbo kit for my car and he said he had an extra one he didnt want and would give to me for only 600 and help me put it on YES!!!! but then just to bust my ***** he discovered my engine wouldnt be able to handle it because it was meant for 4.0l engine and well he said mine couldnt handle it dam!!! now my question is why is it that my engine couldnt handle it what would happen??? to my engine???
YES!!!! but then just to bust my ***** he discovered my engine wouldnt be able to handle it because it was meant for 4.0l engine and well he said mine couldnt handle it dam!!! now my question is why is it that my engine couldnt handle it what would happen??? to my engine???The turbo it's self is designed for a certain amount of displacement. In other words, your engine will not push enough exhuast through it to spool it up. Think of putting a fire house nozzle or your garden hose. You would not be able to build boost and your car would lag and probably bog out and stall the car every time you try to start moving. BTW, $600 is not a good deal on a turbo unless it is brand new. You can pick up used turbos for around $200-$300, and those are good ones.
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Originally Posted by Jrfish007
The turbo it's self is designed for a certain amount of displacement. In other words, your engine will not push enough exhuast through it to spool it up. Think of putting a fire house nozzle or your garden hose. You would not be able to build boost and your car would lag and probably bog out and stall the car every time you try to start moving. BTW, $600 is not a good deal on a turbo unless it is brand new. You can pick up used turbos for around $200-$300, and those are good ones.
Sorry guys, no kaboom.
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Rep Power: 0 ummmm turbo......yeah man, when turbo shopping, there are a lot of things to consider such as mods, displacement, the power output you are looking for, etc....its a little more difficult than just slappin one on under the hood...there are a ton of awesome turbo gurus on here that will be more than happy to help you....hit one of us up for some help....
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Rep Power: 380 that looks like a turbo off a desial truck or something. I love seeing thjose giant things slapped onto the race cars in NDRA and NHRA sport compact series. but anyways it is about displacement to spool the trubo. A few years ago you couldn't really run anything bigger than a T28 on a small displacement basically stock civic. But modern turbos you can run bigger like a T3/T4 and not get the lag becasue it is ball bearng and they spool up faster and easier. But if you want a turbo for cheap go find a wrecked eclipse they run T25 non-BB, or maybe an old daytona or somehtiung that runs a T3.
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Originally Posted by jwcardy
ummmm turbo......yeah man, when turbo shopping, there are a lot of things to consider such as mods, displacement, the power output you are looking for, etc....its a little more difficult than just slappin one on under the hood...there are a ton of awesome turbo gurus on here that will be more than happy to help you....hit one of us up for some help....
holly hell thats like a turbo for a diesel..
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Originally Posted by ArthurBrazil
My dads turbo big rig is prolly sum where around that size
plus the velocity stack on the compressor housing is a dead give away that is it meant for a race only application. Unless that is a v-band clamp flange. In which case it is probably meant for some sort of heavy machinery
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Rep Power: 424 Mmmmm bulldozer turbo (I really don't know)
Anyways.... the other issue besides it not spooling is what happens when it does spool.
It wants so shove air in massive quantities down that bottle neck that is the intake manifold. It can only absorb so much and you'll be causing back up like crazy (or engine goes boom). The flow rate of a large turbo would cause you to run a pound or 2, which would cause a huge amount of air mass without a lot or pressure. You wouldn't really have the turbo running in its effeciency range doing that.
Anyways.... the other issue besides it not spooling is what happens when it does spool.
It wants so shove air in massive quantities down that bottle neck that is the intake manifold. It can only absorb so much and you'll be causing back up like crazy (or engine goes boom). The flow rate of a large turbo would cause you to run a pound or 2, which would cause a huge amount of air mass without a lot or pressure. You wouldn't really have the turbo running in its effeciency range doing that.
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Originally Posted by Boilermaker1
Mmmmm bulldozer turbo (I really don't know)
Anyways.... the other issue besides it not spooling is what happens when it does spool.
It wants so shove air in massive quantities down that bottle neck that is the intake manifold. It can only absorb so much and you'll be causing back up like crazy (or engine goes boom). The flow rate of a large turbo would cause you to run a pound or 2, which would cause a huge amount of air mass without a lot or pressure. You wouldn't really have the turbo running in its effeciency range doing that.
Anyways.... the other issue besides it not spooling is what happens when it does spool.
It wants so shove air in massive quantities down that bottle neck that is the intake manifold. It can only absorb so much and you'll be causing back up like crazy (or engine goes boom). The flow rate of a large turbo would cause you to run a pound or 2, which would cause a huge amount of air mass without a lot or pressure. You wouldn't really have the turbo running in its effeciency range doing that.
I don't think it would be able to spool up, but yeah if it did, you would have serious problems handling that much air flow.
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Rep Power: 424 I agree.... it wouldn't spool for the same flow rate issue that would prevent it from being incapable of handling the inlet volume, but it could blow up if it did spool. You may see one of those nitrous style intake manifold explosions.
There's a guy around here that has a very well built cummins diesel dodge truck that runs 11's in the 1/4. He's running 80psi. I bet he's got a turbo that big. BTW, this is what my friend tells me that works right down the road from him. He runs a performance diesel shop. It's called Cedar City Diesel in Lebanon, TN.
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Originally Posted by speedster
There's a guy around here that has a very well built cummins diesel dodge truck that runs 11's in the 1/4. He's running 80psi. I bet he's got a turbo that big. BTW, this is what my friend tells me that works right down the road from him. He runs a performance diesel shop. It's called Cedar City Diesel in Lebanon, TN.
80 psi seems to be alot, I've seen 50 psi, but never 80. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I personally just have not seen it. Props to that guy though.
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Originally Posted by thegent
80psi=5.4 atmospheres
50psi=3.4 atmospheres
80psi is just crazy.
50psi=3.4 atmospheres
80psi is just crazy.
yeah, but 600 hp and 1400 ft-lb out of a 5.9L six is crazzy too. Not sure if this guy has that kind of power, but I've heard of some that do.
Yeah, they showed on Spike TV the other day a build up on a new chevy diesel. Most of the work was on the auto transmission, but they put a turbo upgrade (I think) and some kind of a programmer and they dynoed over 500hp's and over 900 ft. lbs. of torque.
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