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bubblez
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Hi Guys
not sure if there is many of you who have heard of rear mount turbo's, but im thinking about doing it to my Fairmont.
Just want to hear you opinions on it.
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FLASH
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| whats a rear mount turbo?
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Steady ED
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Turbo mounted toward the rear of the car...
What motor, if you have a 4L Fairmont, it's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life.
If it's a 3V, it's a decent idea, I'd mount them near the gearbox though, near where cats normally are, Like they do on BossTT and APS twin turbo LS1 kits.
Either way you are gonna need a pump to scavenge oil.
May as well shorten piping as much possible.
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FLASH
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Thats what i thought he meant... but on a 4lt whats the point?
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schnoods
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Honestly, why?
I can understad on the 3v and the Boss motors where have little to no space, but on a I6 there is an ideal set up waiting to go.
Sounds like one of those ideas that although they do work, you'd wonder why.
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Disco Frank
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| i have seen a turbo in the boot of a car before....
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Denim
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Disco Frank wrote: | | i have seen a turbo in the boot of a car before.... |
Yea me too... not connected.. 
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| I've spoken to a couple of people about this before as I was considering it on my XR8. One person told me that turbos are more efficient with the hotter air passing through them and by the time the exhaust gases passed through the exhaust and reached the turbo, you'd have lost heat. I don't know how much of this is true, but it helped sway my decision against it. As well as the running of an oil line and the fact that there's not much clean air under a car. Oh yeah, and a s**t load more piping running under your car...
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twason
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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There was thread about a dodgy bros fairlane with the boot cut out to house the turbo that created quite a discussion a few years back.
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data_mine
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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It's true, the only reason to go 'remote mount' turbo's is for stealth or lack of engine bay room. There's no performance benefit in doing so.
edit:
One of the european BMW tuners does a rear mount setup for the new V10 M5.
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twr7cx
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Whats the point in going to the hassle when you could just pick up a snort kit or the parts of XR6T?
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Disco Frank
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:38 am Post subject: |
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| twason wrote: | | There was thread about a dodgy bros fairlane with the boot cut out to house the turbo that created quite a discussion a few years back. |
thats the 1 i was thinking of!
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EBXR8380
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| Denim wrote: | | Disco Frank wrote: | | i have seen a turbo in the boot of a car before.... |
Yea me too... not connected.. |
I posted a white Fairlane when these forums first started.. The turbo was under the boot...
But you can mount them under heat shield if you want stealth set up...
Low mount style...
http://www.ststurbo.com/ U.S style
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| how laggy would a set-up like that be. I reckon that could be a handful to drive if you were going hard.
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I remember in street machine there was a mustang with two turbos in the boot. aparently there isn't as much lag as everyone thinks. Off the top of my head it didn't mention any other downsides, only the upsides of not having two heaters under the bonnet and you have to love the sleeper aspect
Ben
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twason
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| The concensus was last time around that the length of pipe is not that much different to an intercooler install and there was cooling gained by the pipe running under the car in the air flow.
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Steady ED
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I like how almost everyone assumed it was a 4L for some reason???
He hasn't even replied after I asked!
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