Rogue_Ant

That is a good question, and funny enough is an advantage of having the turbo mounted on the 'wrong side' - it gives a little bit of time to cool the exhaust before hitting the turbo.
Regardless, we will be testing this combo for daily-driving, and on the track (road & drag).

URG8RB8

Josh, in your required items list, I saw no mention of a turbo mount. I can't imagine this turbo even remotely mounts up to the stock mount. Is it just suspended from the up/down pipe, or did you guys fabricate a new mount? What size is the compressor inlet, 4"?

dnovak

Custom mount, these turbos have a pedestal mount to bolt into the diesels.
Josh and I are working on some other ideas with this turbo


Water cooling and oil lubricated
Best of both worlds!

dnovak

Excuse me, not bolt in but sit on,, it requires some crazy welding on the center section itself!

Rogue_Ant

Clarification - this setup uses the factory engine/turbo mount - but has an "in-between" piece that mates the turbo center-section to the factory mount.

URG8RB8

Sounds good can't wait to see how this project evolves over the next few months. Since thinking these turbos would never be adaptable to our cars, I have never priced one. What kind of ball park price for just a turbo? Figured you could save me the time of a search.

URG8RB8

Interesting, maybe something similar to the ATP piece for the standard GT series BB turbos?

Even with this piece, the center section must be welded? I have spoke with Garrett engineers about this and was told it is a big No No.

74goldtarga

That turbo is really big

Is that plenum an efficient design? I'm not suggesting it isn't, it just looks too easy.

blown 944

There isn't any welding on the center section. Dave has a pedestal between the mount and the turbo. It bolts to each one individually.

URG8RB8

Sid, just going by this post. Calling you soon in a few.

URG8RB8

Just performed the search and these turbo's are very reasonable, especially if you roll the dice on a used one. Even the polished powermax brand new ones are not that bad at $1,300.00.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-GARR...ebf2a6&vxp=mtr

Rogue_Ant

Yep, the turbo itself isn't too bad - which does help keeping a "kit" reasonably priced...

dnovak

Pm sent to URG

Plus they are strong as hell!! They do weigh a bunch but for what you get they are worth it!

Dougs951

Maybe in the spring I will have to see where this is.

Too broke right now.

lejams

Exciting stuff. Imagine a 3 liter...!