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Originally posted by VR4_Craver
If you have so many saab turbos why isnt your car turbod? When i went the sunbird had a 2L in it also and so did the Labaron...then i saw this turboed 350 in a van.....i almost cried...
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It's not just a matter of having a turbo...
You still need:
an intercooler (have them too)
Charge piping (same deal... it's saab stuff but I can cut/paste to fit)
Turbo manifold (HF manifold would due but doesn't allow for the use of an external wastegate and the flow probobly eats a$$ on them)
BOV (we've got a bunch of bosch universal ones (again though they suck))
AND
Most importantly
Fuel.
I'm not going to turbo my car without injectors and a fuel computer... maybe something as cheap as a SMC but I'd prefer hondata or the like.
Then you get into having to tune it... and get it to run reliably...
It's a headache I'm not going to dive into till I have AT MINIMUM
a second car for a daily driver...
Money enough to spend on PROPER fuel management...
I've got 2 kids and a wife that doesn't drive... so blowing up my engine for sh!ts and giggles isn't exactly in the plans...
Oh and there is 168k miles and counting on my car... so It certainly wouldn't be smart to do it without tearing down the block and rebuilding some stuff.
I was working on doing it a while back but when money got tight I sold all the parts I had aquired...
All I'd really need to spend serious money on now would be the fuel computer and injectors...
But I don't have the 20-40 bucks for the HF manifold much less 800 or so for a hondatat/injectors.