Draw Thru Turbo 1980 Buick Regal Turbo Sportcoupe limited 

I remember in the 80s I used to test drive those cars at my friends dealership. They were fun but then when I try to grand national it was wow in comparison.

When I purchased the car, it was sitting on an Indian reservation being used as a storage container. The engine would not start and they gave up on it. I put it on a trailer took it to my place, Put a bunch of work in it and it runs pretty well. If it was in better shape when I bought it, it would have made a good restoration. This one will be a resto mod unless someone wants to pay me my price for it. I am willing to sell any of my cars for the right price.

Yes, the beginning of the production turbo Buick Regal. The turbo compressor inlet mixes the fuel and air mixture from the carburetor and pushes it under boost into the intake manifold draw through carbureted turbocharging. It is a fun car, before fuel injection, just an engine, HEI distributor, turbo and carburetor. No fancy computers or fuel injection. A simple turbo car.

@@madboostingmadmatt48 I always wanted an early turbo regal very easy to work on they are amazing for their time including the turbo lesabre and turbo buick century your right this is the before black era of turbo buicks

I do not have spare any parts. I used a 1987 Turbo Buick Garrett turbocharger, a carb spread bore conversion to go from quadrajet to holley bolt pattern. I had a friend do the welding to change direction of the compressor discharge, the external wastegate conversion, and the exhaust tubing for the different turbo housing outlet direction. It is fabrication any good exhaust shop with tube bender could do. Could do it another way too, get a universal T3/T4 turbocharger with Vband flange and have an exhaust shop weld a T3 flange to your stock exhaust turbo inlet, and fabricate the draw through manifold to fit the compressor inlet of the turbocharger. Check this part out, could make it real easy for your upgraded draw through application. www.ebay.com/itm/Turbo-4-barrel-draw-through-inlet-manifold-V-band-clamp-type-Holden-6-Strata/372529653145

Dennis Jarod i will make a video showing my vacuum lines.

I only installed the necessary, vacuum lines, such as distributor, external wastegate, and the boost sensor indicator and some others. I don’t recall at the moment.

@@madboostingmadmatt48 aaah ok just what's necessary...I also have a knock sensor on the rear of the block...did yours have one?

@@AZHighLife I believe I did install the knock sensor on the back.

@madboostingmadmatt48 thanks for the replies brotha...

with draw through turbocharging, the fuel and the air mix in the compressor which cools the air before being pushed directly into the engine. The only type of intercooling technique that can work with draw through carb is a small methanol injector on the intake tube so the carb draws the methanol in to mix with fuel and air making it cooler. Another way would be a fuel cooler to cool the fuel that much more before it enters the carburetor therefore atomization of fuel and air would be much cooler. Blow through turbocharging on the other hand you can run air to air intercooler due to no fuel is in the boost until after boosted air passes through the carburetor.

MadMatt BudgetBoosting wow. That’s a whole level of turbocharging I never about. Interesting.

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Yes, next time starter is out, it will be done.

1978 there was also the turbo g body Regal, it was the first year. Mine is an 80 is third year but first generation of turbo Regals. Yes the Lesabre and Rivera also had turbo versions.

I have around $3500 in the car at the moment. The car has a long way to go for its restoration in the future.

Its a resto mod like many other classic cars with improved features.

Happens restomods are fun