turbo way around this?

14th March 2006, 12:36

can someone please inform me how i can turbocharge a sax on a budget?

say using a low pressure turbo, i belive the problem would be with fuel as there would be more air being forced than fuel (air/fuel) ratio. can this be overcome using larger injectors, then just a remap. if so all i would then need is?

low pressure turbo unit
fabricated manifold
piping.
larger injectors
remap

has it ever been achived like this? and can it be done?

14th March 2006, 13:55

we all have to start somewhere, but its not just that simple, what you have to remeber is the car is not designed for boost in any capacity, and the ecu in particular to mention just 1 component is not designed for boost hence why it has a 1 bar map sensor, but of the negative ie vacuum value, so it sees -15 to 0psi.

depending on the type of car you have (3 plug, single plug, multipoint injection? single point) etc etc you will need a way to make the ecu think its not seeing boost and allowing it to be mapped accordingly (if the ecu sees more than 0psi it trys to take the fuel out)

but apart from the fueling side to sort which is the worst, most expensive and most important, there are:

Brakes, suspension, clutch, engine cooling, air cooling, fabrication of manifold, downpipe, oil/water lines for turbo to name but a few.

14th March 2006, 14:15

If you do it on the cheap then you will end up with more problems with your engine and then end up paying more to fix it.
It will just become really unreliable but you could get it done for under 3k

15th March 2006, 00:25

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