turbo idea, maybe new stuff Options

[st18]

hey yall i dont know if any one has posted it or not (if they have feel free to hit me up with the normal check the old fourms lol) but i saw this new way of instwlling a turbo. what they do is put the turbo at the tail pipe at the back of the car. u bolt the hot side to the tail pipe with a flange and then run your down pipe directly to the muffler. and on the compressure side u run your piping from the turbo to the throttle body. dont know if you can do the intercooler because the pipe will be so long? only thing is im sure you will have alot of turbo lag. and you run the oil lines like u would with the normal setup (just will need alot of line) and i thought this would be great for people like me with a ST because turbo manifolds are so hard to find. when i come across the money im going to try it but if u have the bank to do it before me let me know how it turns out! it just something i thought would help turn the celica into a hellica

[lagos]

Your 1.8l 4cly is going to have a really hard time spooling a turbo thats sitting at your exhaust tip.
A turbo needs heat and energy to do its thing. Some of these cars get away with it because their huge 8cly motors push enough exhaust to do the job, but its still far from optimal.

95st-celica's step dad is doing a remote mounted turbo setup on his v8 el camino, using a huge turbo from a city bus, but was having some issues getting it to spool up.
I'm sure 95st-celica will post up the video when he sees this thread.

This post has been edited by lagos: Jan 4, 2009 - 2:37 AM