turbo on an N/A

zooplane · Post by **zooplane** » 26 Feb 2011, 22:50

Have a N/A v70... how do i go about putting on a turbo charger? what do i need???? hahah

RaymanSean · Post by **RaymanSean** » 27 Feb 2011, 10:44

A donor car with a turbo. At a minimum you will need a differnt down pipe, the proper exhaust manifold, the turbo that does between the two, all the turbo controls, the inter-cooler, the piping, the correct intake manifold. That is just to get it running, you will then need to think about redoing the bottom end of the engine. You may be able to find a bolt on kit but I doubt you will. Your best bet is to find a 2.5T engine that is in a car that has been totaled from the side or rear. Then you can start your project by removing the old engine and replacing it with the engine from the donor car. You keep asking about how to get more HP from your engine and the simple answer is that unless you have $$$$$ laying around is to get a donor car with an engine that already has the turbo.

Post by **jimmy57** » 27 Feb 2011, 11:16

Your engine is a high compression engine not well suited for turbocharging. If you turbo it you will have to use premium and run lowered boost or the detonation/spark knock/preignition will do it in quickly.
You will have to drill and tap an oil feel hole on a boss on block or run a very high quality oil feed line from front of engine to rear for turbo supply. The boss on block will have to be precisely drilled for turbo drain or you will have to fabricate a drain and drill into oil pan for drain for turbo oil supply.
You will have to use a turbo control unit and injectors as stock N/A injectors run bu N/A ECM will not adequately fuel the engine during boosted running. OH, you have a networked car. You can't simply swap ECM's. You may have to find some outfit that does custom tuning on your existing ECM and you still definitely need the higher flow injectors.
You are pretty much stuck.You will spend way more money on attempting this this with less than ideal results than you would trading for a turbo V70.
With fuel prices going up I'd hang onto the N/A car. The Denso fuel system non-turbos can pull down down some pretty good MPG. At $4 up per gallon, faster will become way less important.

jda2000 · Post by **jda2000** » 27 Feb 2011, 13:42

jimmy57 wrote:
At $4 up per gallon, faster will become way less important.

Jimmy, you said it. I am going to have to drive my V70 T5 like an old lady and coast most of the time

zooplane · Post by **zooplane** » 27 Feb 2011, 15:22

thanks guys.