Finally turbocharging my car. New to the game. Need help and opinions
02-06-2014, 09:53 AM
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Finally turbocharging my car. New to the game. Need help and opinions
Hey guys, So over this past year I've been tossing around the idea of boosting my car with a turbocharger. Well, I recently acquired a free turbo from one of my engineering buddies. It's a Garrett GT4202 or GT4294. It has the T6 A/R 1.44 turbine housing. We still have to measure the turbine wheel yet but it is quite large. But for free I'm not complaining. The rest of my combo is below. I will be selling my Dart heads I have now along with my dual plane intake. I will be trying to scrounge up a set of used Dart Pro 1's with a 72cc (or any decent aluminum head) chamber to lower my compression. I will also be picking up a single plane intake. We will be making our own carb hat (this will be a blow-thru operation). He's made a few in the past and claims it will clear my stock hood. He's built plenty of blow thru carbs so that part i'm not worried about. I will also be staying premium pump gas for the time being. I will be running a front mount intercooler. Any ideas on this? Ebay? Easy to mount? I guess I'm just looking for opinions on what you think. This will be my first turbo build. What do you think it can do / or is capable of doing? I'm very excited to head this direction (minus the naysayers). I will be running the Walbro 400LPH intank fuel pump as well. The fuel lines and regulator are all up to par already. The camshaft will stay for now due to funds. I guess I'm just looking for what this setup is capable of doing on pump gas. Or even on 116 octane?
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02-11-2014, 12:50 PM
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Re: Finally turbocharging my car. New to the game. Need help and opinions
scrap it its a pile. haahaha
sorry im the buddy
sorry im the buddy
02-11-2014, 01:17 PM
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Re: Finally turbocharging my car. New to the game. Need help and opinions
You already have my input lol surprised no one else added any. Theres a guy selling dart shp 180's brand new for 995 in classifieds. 72cc chambers. Good heads and perfect size for that motor, as they cc closer to 190's than 180.
It will be an ok combo in the 600-700 hp range in think. More should have bigger compressor wheel but i have seen an ls1 370" based motor make 800 whp on a gt4202r. I believe thats what he had. But he was pushing that turbo hard
It will be an ok combo in the 600-700 hp range in think. More should have bigger compressor wheel but i have seen an ls1 370" based motor make 800 whp on a gt4202r. I believe thats what he had. But he was pushing that turbo hard
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