I'm looking for a low boost setup... Trying to figure out how I can get close to 300hp, where my car isn't undriveable for a while. I have a Scion XB as a backup car but I'll die if I have to drive that for too long lol.
This is awesome, you’re just awesome. I’m just getting into cars, young, don’t have anyone to ask things yet. I currently dream of building a cheap turbo is300 like this and a cheap turbo-cam gm 1500, but I live too far away from the Dyno’s & Tuners, 1100 miles. I know you clearly said “No Tune, 30% larger MAF housing, so 30% more injector”, but are you sure you have not tuned this at all, not even plugged a laptop in at the time? Thanks alot for your time Mr. Phukyew. I might be able to do this after all 🙂🙏
The car is still being driven the last I heard which was a few months back, about a year after I made this video I ended up selling the car to a friend of mine. I don't think it would have lasted in an aspect of like let's say track racing. But it was good for a bunch of straight line drag races in a row if you wanted to. I wouldn't have pushed the setup to a scenario of endurance testing because I had no way to retard ignition timing and heat soak would have set in at some point. A large oil cooler would probably make it able to handle more. I know that in this car if I drove around aggressively for too long on a hot day (phoenix az) it would start misfiring at full boost sometimes. I'm assuming that was due to lack of ability to properly tune. I would definitely recommend this setup for somebody that wants to drive it daily and has no desire to go over 8 PSI boost pressure. All summer long even with my air conditioner blowing cold I still didn't really have any problems with it unless I wanted to push it too hard for too long on a hot day.
I've done 2 now and I would do another. It's not easy at all but I make sure to explain it well in my videos. I do them in my shop for 3k total parts and labor
what did you do about your 4 o2 sensors ? i hear there pretty tricky when going turbo im about to start my build i got the same 316cc injectors as well
Yes you absolutely can , it’ll wear out your turbo bearings especially if you have an ebay one but it shouldn’t be much of a problem if you’re running like 6-7 psi What I’d do is set up the blow off valve in a really easy spot to be taken off and but a plate to close the loop and hose clamp the vacuum lines so when I go to car meets or once a week I get the sutututu sound and the rest of the week when i beat on the car I’ve my blow off valve on and try not to damage my turbo
Yes and under 8psi it will never hurt the turbo. Also you can use a stronger blow off valve spring so it will purge out the majority of the pressure but still give you some compressor surge afterwards.
