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does anyone remember that site that built the rear turbo system that installs under the back of the car. i searched and looked through quite a few (15-20) threads but couldn't find it.

also has anyone on here delt with turbos, i have a good friend who has many turbo cars and told me about the kits that mount on the exhaust only, they do not boost intake psi. not sure how they work but eh worth researching as it may be mor feasable for our car with the limited under hood space.

Also i emailed comp cams about coustom made cams for the v-8 waiting on a reply, i asked them about a group buy, to see if maybe it will reduse the price of each set.

i think with some work and plenty of money (haha) a turbo set up isnt that hard to do. so i am going to look into it more....
 
if you buy a turbo that doesn't put boost into the intake you got nothing more than a muffler. i could sell you some sweet turbo mufflers. what the F!
 
2002_lincolnLS said:
does anyone remember that site that built the rear turbo system that installs under the back of the car. i searched and looked through quite a few (15-20) threads but couldn't find it.

also has anyone on here delt with turbos, i have a good friend who has many turbo cars and told me about the kits that mount on the exhaust only, they do not boost intake psi. not sure how they work but eh worth researching as it may be mor feasable for our car with the limited under hood space.

Also i emailed comp cams about coustom made cams for the v-8 waiting on a reply, i asked them about a group buy, to see if maybe it will reduse the price of each set.

i think with some work and plenty of money (haha) a turbo set up isnt that hard to do. so i am going to look into it more....
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Here you go!
http://www.ststurbo.com/
 
As far as i knew, turbos were a form of forced induction.

The whole point is to force more air into the system....what the crap is this??
 
ILLS turbo set up was rear mounted, or I thought it was. So what is the difference between the normal turbo and rear mounted?
 
Really just the location, Does the same thing as an underhood turbo would, just more room to work with out back on most cars these days since they shoe horn motors between strut towers.
 
Never mind, not rear mounted. I thought it was since i saw tubes going to the back, but here's a rear mounted turbo. Pretty cool and informative video since on that sts rear mounted turbo website it doesn't show you the difference between regular turbo and rear mounted.

YouTube - STS Turbo on 2 Guys Garage
 
so would i have to buy 2 turbos because of the duel exhaust, which makes sense because it would balance both banks. and i wonder if i could pull the turbos off like audi or something and mount them in the back.
 
2002_lincolnLS said:
so would i have to buy 2 turbos because of the duel exhaust, which makes sense because it would balance both banks. and i wonder if i could pull the turbos off like audi or something and mount them in the back.
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Yeah up front directly off each bank's manifold. :confused:
 
2002_lincolnLS said:
i have a good friend who has many turbo cars and told me about the kits that mount on the exhaust only, they do not boost intake psi.
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i believe you misunder stood him, a turbo must boost intake PSI, that just how it works, higher pressure air + more fuel = more horsepower


2002_lincolnLS said:
i think with some work and plenty of money (haha) a turbo set up isnt that hard to do. so i am going to look into it more....
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it not really hard to do, its just expensive, and if your building a system, instead of buying a pre built bolt on system with all the parts (which doesnt exist for an LS) then there are a lot of small odds and ends that will need to be worked through (1st gen air assisted fuel rails and injectors for example)

2002_lincolnLS said:
so would i have to buy 2 turbos because of the duel exhaust, which makes sense because it would balance both banks. and i wonder if i could pull the turbos off like audi or something and mount them in the back.
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no you dont have to, but you can, its just a lot more work and money, its much more common to combine the two exhaust banks together and run them into one larger turbo, than to have two separate smaller turbos, because you would have to buy much more piping, oil lines and have to do a lot more welding, which will drive up the cost. but two smaller turbos will spool up much quicker and have less lag, but a bigger single turbo will have a little bit more lag but create much more boost

its really not as simple as just grabbing a turbo off of another car (if you really wanted to, you could, but its probably not going to be the most efficient setup, too much lag, not enough/ too much boost...), the turbo really need to be a certain size for a particular engine, and a lot goes into making sure that you have the right sized turbo.

then you have the problem of having a motor that cant handle a lot of boost, so its really a lot of money for a minor upgrade, and with the lack of parts being available, you really cant build the motor up to handle any real amount of power with out sinking a small fortune into it. sure 4-6 PSI would be a lot better than no PSI but its going to be nothing like a EVO running 26-29 PSI and just plain being balls out fast.
 
the only bad things about rear mounted turbos is you have to pipe boost all the way back to the intake, most mount the filters under the car in the rear very suck and if not you have more pipes to run all the way back to the front, oil feed pressure side from the motor back to the turbos and then you need little dry sumps to push the oil back to the motor oil pan. it a lot of work. if someone would make a sweet cal hood you could put turbos on to of the motor making every thing more simple.
 
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