I would stay away from the VNT turbo's. From my understanding the controls
of them are quite complex and they tend to be fairly unreliable. their
spool-up time is nice but I don't think it's worth the simplicity of just
controlling a wastegate nor is it worth sitting out races with a bum turbo.
BTW I generally find the FWD mopar lists and the grand national pages to
have the greatest wealth of turbo knowledge.
Joe W.
87 Shelby Charger 13.9
98 Dakota 13.1
"If it's got turbo lag, you ain't driving it right" Carrol Shelby
>
> Any idea what sort of turbo you'll be using? Are you going to fab
> it up yourself, or take it to a shop? I'd like to do a twin turbo
> setup on my Dak, but I haven't been able to figure out how to make it
> a simple bolt-on yet. (I was hoping to be able to just stick the
> turbos on the ends of the exhaust manifolds and have a shorter Y
> pipe made up, but there just isn't any room down there! :-( A
> buddy of mine just got a magazine about turbos in Mustangs (I'm thinking
> of picking it up, just for the tech info) and as we were glancing through
> it, they all seemed to have custom headers, and you should see some
> of the strange bends and turns the pipes have to do to run to turbos,
> intercoolers, etc! I'd really like to do twin turbos to reduce the
> lag, but that takes up twice the room. I probably aught to just do it
> right and have some headers made.
>
> I don't really want to think about what it will cost to have a shop
> make me a set of custom headers. :-( I do plan to get a MIG welder
> one of these days, but I'd still need a tubing bender. (Well, maybe
> I can get a shop to bend up the pipes.) My problem also is that
> I don't know a whole lot about the theory of designing headers, so
> they won't be much more than tubes to get the exhaust to run through
> the turbos... Maybe it doesn't matter quite so much on forced induction
> engines though. ?
>
> Anyway, keep us updated on your progress! :-) Based on some earlier
> DML discussions, and particularly from the input of Shaun H., I'm leaning
> toward the Garret VNT units.
>
> -Jon-
>
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