I would like to go turbo, but i do not want the (i am fast as hell) intercooler look. One of the "honduh guys" said i can run a turbo without a intercooler. Is this possible and if so what kit, what to buy, and where to buy? Oh and price! clueless on turbos any help is great, thanks in advance
I did it for awhile, just make sure that you run high octane and low levels of boost on a pretty small turbo (like my tiny tim t3 .42 trim compressor wheel .48 a/r turbine). Having an external wastegate with a 4-6 spring doesn't hurt either,which is about the max you should be pushing without an ic (a guy on sr20de did 10 with a s-afc, but that requires more knowhow/cajones then most people have.). IC is ideal though, and you can some cheap to boot (I got mine for $80 shipped.)
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why not just use a topmount intercooler from a blue bird, they can be found pretty easy, or a gti-r, much larger, but harder to find all the pieces for.
Those IC's won't really function well unless you have a hood scoop, and I don't think the GTI-R will even clear without a hood scoop. My tiny tim t3 came off a saab 9000, but it blew, so I'm buying another one from kbrassfi. You can find those for under 150, but then you can't use a BBDET manifold IIRC. Protech has cheap enough manifolds to make it worth your while though and the extra top end will help out a lot.
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"I swear Boris, if you didnt have bad luck you sure as hell wouldnt have any at all"-Nostrodomas, story of my life
Lewis Black quote of the Week:
"Baseball should go back to its roots and bring back performance hindering substances. If not for me, do it for the children."
how much boost is it, and how much hp?
what year saab was it? I am very interested in this so give me knowledge (like turbo for dummies knowledge) hehehe.
I think it can hit like 12-14 lbs of boost, but I can't give you a number as to what that'll produce. The tuning is all. I don't know what year its from to be honest, but I think many turbo cars use that trim, so it shouldn't be hard to find. I'm also thinking that if you want a stealthy i/c, go for a dsm smic and use custom i/c piping. That should be stealth, yet fast, and those i/c are good for about 300 hp (hp is correspondent to total cfm btw.
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"I swear Boris, if you didnt have bad luck you sure as hell wouldnt have any at all"-Nostrodomas, story of my life
Lewis Black quote of the Week:
"Baseball should go back to its roots and bring back performance hindering substances. If not for me, do it for the children."
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