A pull through design works fine. I think you had too much oil pressure into the turbo. Was pushing through the seals and into the engine. Thats where that big puff of smoke came from. Also some header wrap on the exhaust pipe to help keep the heat in the pipe would help with spooling. Put a regulator inline to the turbo. And fatten up the jetting. I think your onto something. 100psi into the turbo is not needed. If its building 7psi u only need like 10-14 psi oil pressure. The volume looked good tho in the test.
I would put the turbo a little closer to the head and wrapped. Thin oil with less pressure. Fattin up jet until it doesn't pop... Check plug after full throttle run for jetting indicators.
I am overjoyed to see that Ken is not only more of a hands-on guy than I had imagined in real-life, but he seems way cooler.... Losing the Tuxedo was a good move! BRAVO 😂🏆
restrict oil pressure to the turbo to 10-15psi, Make a bigger exhaust pipe from the flange on the engine to the turbo ( more air in more air out near stock size is to small), run bigger jetting on the carb, and wrap the exhaust from engine to turbo. Running the fuel lean for to long and your going to burn the engine up. Keeping to much oil in the turbo is going to blow its seals. A few simple changes will go a long way.
Dude, whoever does the videography/editing is a champ! Great drone shots, smooth tracking shots and the color correction/lut is awesome! Keep on crushing! Plus the car is cool!
This is great. I passed you going through Portland and was questioning the little pink Barbie car on the big car hauler trailer. So fun to see it show up on RU-vid. Cheers
Looks like an awesome time was had. I think the Barbie car is super mint, doesn’t matter if it has a turbo or not it’s awesome. I will seriously have to get to my old man’s house to go through all his old Mazda rotary stuff and I’ll let you know what I can find if it’s not too crazy expensive maybe I can ship it your way.
The turbo would work if u tuned the carb for extra fuel and you probably had to much oil presure into that tiny little turbo i think the experiment isint over yet
@@florascent9ts in a draw through you shouldnt have to make much changes to the jetting (vacum goes up when boost comes on) mine i ended up going one size smaller and a crazy staged needle that opened up like crazy about 3/4 throttle. Pull through is easy just a bad set up in general check out all the 80s turbo bikes you see blow through and efi not really much pull through. Pull through can make more power but to do it it wont idle or run any kind of okay at anything other than full throttle. Simple solution efi the mot simple is blow through.
That oil pump is for extracting oil through a dipstick. You jam the copper tube down the dipstick and slowly pump it out. I use the exact one on my boat engines.
You need a bigger intake plenum between the turbo and the engine for a single cylinder. For optimal performance the plenum should be about 4.4x the engine displacement. There is a good MIT paper if you look up “single cylinder turbo” for more info. Good work!
I love putting extremely powerful engines on tiny vehicles. no one expects them to go that fast but since they are so lightweight that they can quickly accelerate.
As Adam Savage always said; In any given experiment, failure is ALWAYS an option. Failure is also a scientific outcome of any type of experiment. In reality? This was 100% success. You guys had fun, and I sure as hell had fun watching the video! Keep it up my dudes!!
That turbo was way too big, you need something much smaller than that, Guessing by the sound this one was only getting probably 10k maybe 15k rpms. And it needs at least 50k to give reasonable boost. Something tiny like a turbo from a 1.2 turbo diesel might work, those turbos are about the size of your fist.
Sorry man the less cylinders you have the weirder things get with turbos just like in the intake you get a really big pulse at one time. Same deal in the turbine side you get a really big spike in pressure the xr650r guys and crf450 guys are using turbos for 2-3000cc cars and getting fast spool times. Alot of kits with the garret gt17 for the 450 that hit boost threshold before 3krpm. Mine is half the displacement of his with the same turbo and I get it by 3k no problem. His issue is he's not getting anything into the engine. He's taking that boost in the intake and let's say 14psi intake valve opens and it drops into vac and before the pressure wave can catch up and shove air into the cylinder the valve closes.
Im mexican im deported to Mex and i love custom things for my little kids i was working on a red ford raptor it is cool but im not any more in Oregon.you made an amazing job on this little car ......saludos desde Mexico!!!!Oregon coast i miss you!!!sorry for my english
Get a scroll compressor from an HVAC unit. Maybe fuel injection first. Because maybe a compressor will have the same issues with seals and fuel from the mixture.
Just a thought.... The clamps, (positive and negative) couldn't you have just slid the sleeves off the handles to the correct colours. Or was that way out of the box?
Noel that’s what I thought and either way who cares how it came out of the box Lmaoo it’s common sense to how us humans identify our power and negative wire
Nice work guys I’ve been collecting parts for a pit bike drift trike ..... thanks to ur friend with the Ktm also use “Transfer” pumps that are for waste oil heaters they are built to flow the thick oil!!!!!
Ive got a few questions: Did you guys alter the compression ratio in order to prevent detonation once it reaches boost? What cc is that engine? Where does the engine fall on the compressor map for that turbo? Thanks, looks great, looking forward to more videos.
They obviously researched none of that or it would have worked, everything about the set up was wrong. Looked fun to try thought, with much better though invested anyway.
Thumb down because of turbo removal 😢 y'all should have installed a boost gauge and it needed a larger main jet for the extra air/psi from the turbo because without it it probably didn't even spool a psi or 2 because I didn't see the wastegate arm move under load at w.o.t ...
Grind Hard Plumbing Co Down in Boise. Someday I’ll move further north though. Just love the extra freedom, driving roads, and dirtbike trails. How about you guys?
God I love the Oregon coast. We travel up there several times a summer to Coos Bay/Winchester Bay etc to the sand dunes. We leave Utah it’s close to 100 in July and august and when we throw the door of the coach open when we get up there it’s a cool ocean breeze and 75. Absolutely love it.
I came accross ur vid, because im sick and ive been on youtube all day. Honestly if i had the tools and space i would also do what you guys are doing! No doubt, i luv the procjects and vid so much i subscribed. Considering i live on a third flr, i still do ehat you do but on a smaller scale i just recieved my welder...time to weld something together or take something apart! Thx for sharing!
I'm a native Idaho'n myself, even lived in Clarkfork for a year. But born and raised in the asshole of Idaho (Lewiston), lol. Just wanted to say I'm enjoying the content, I think we have the same motivations in life. Gear heads for life...
Why you would go to to so much effort to build such an awesome rig, drown it in saltwater and continue to flog it to the point of death is so wildly beyond my comprehension.
Love it. I've built some serious fun hop upped power wheels for my 3 little girls but this is one for dad lol..I would pick them up off craigslist and go to town. I had a small fleet of mean machines. Not a kid in town that could hang with my daughters wheels lol..I will be building another one with a gas motor since they are a bit older now 8-) great video..
I wanna see live Dyno #s pre and post turbo lol. Literally just found your channel yesterday and have been enjoying so far! I wanna drive the Barbie car. 😂
I will just say... You will never get bored while getting old un USA with these funny stuff you can do... Greetings from Argentina, i wish it would be easier and cheaper to do these funny stuff here... I would like to see if you can add a mini Nitro system 💪😎
You guys should really think of making a shop to sell rebuilt and custom karts and stuff. If legal of course, tons of people would love to have one of these toys you guys build!
I am in Oregon too... What you got going on is no filter to the oil cooler. Therefore you sucked metal shavings into the turbo line. I did that on my 20 psi turbo on my 240 my sr20 Nissan. You need to spin the propeller by finger and if it does not spin, disect it and see if the shaft got welded on the oil side by metal shavings. If it did, you need to have a oil filter before the oil hits the turbo. Mine sounded like a siren before the shavings from a new oil feed line tap hit it. Basically I stripped the line, tapped the threads and did not get the shavings flushed as I instructed the shop fixing it to do so before hooked up. I disected my turbo and found the shavings welded shut the oil feed line from friction. Hopefully this helps, I love your project. Maybe you need a 27 hp kohler engine like the one I a m rebuilding for my new but old lawn mower...
He put this on a dedicated loop not sharing oil with the engine. Any shavings in it would be from the turbo itself. I'm not saying that an oil filter is EVER a BAD idea, but in this case it shouldn't be entirely necessary.
@@edifyguy , ok that makes sense. Well, that's strange that it doesn't work as well as it did. It might have melted if it doesn't have a oil cooler or a water cooler too. But it's hard to tell without physically seeing it. You would know if the propellor seized what happened. Anyways... Still a very awesome car. Makes me want to put a turbo on my 27 hp lawn mower.
I know its just a motorcycle motor with a cheap turbo but to my understanding when you cut the motor off you deprive the turbo of the oil so it wears your turbo faster. If you let it idle after running and let the turbo spool down it will prolong the life of the turbo
So cool. I didn't know you guys are in Oregon cuz I'm fairly new to channel. Then to see you test and tuned on sand lake freakin awesome it's were I go quad riding. I'm in Roseburg
