Rear Turbo's

[trackitman]

Anyone heard of such a system for a C4? http://chevyhiperformance.com/techarticles/148_0502_turbo/

Interesting idea.

 

[87blackroxi]

That air intake scares me!!:ugh . a nice splash of water and crappola!

 

[trackitman]

Yeah, I agree on the concern for water getting sucked into the system. To overcome that, I was imagining the intake routed up inbetween the rear alum bumper support, something up and out of the way.

I was thinking you could do away with the spare tire, arrange the system so that the cover to the spare could be reinstalled, and you wouldn't even see the turbo.

The other major consideration is whether to go with one turbo or two. I would imagine the dual exhaust would require a 2 to 1 adapter prior to the turbo , then a one back into two to maintain a look of dual exhaust.

 

[G Winter]

Someone correct me if I am wrong , turbos work on heat differential not preasure. Having them that far from the engine wouldn't give you full effect. Ditto on the air intake.

 

[trackitman]

The limited reading I've done seems to point to the turbo's using exhaust pressure to a turbine, not heat differential. Unless I misunderstood your question. What is your thought on the ditto on air intake?

Read the dyno results on an LT1 Camaro - 271 to 385 HP, 269 to 382 TQ. Seems like a pretty good effect to me.

 

[PLRX]

The results look pretty good to me however, look the limited space in the camaro, those pipes going back and forward, they must watch for bumps, dips etc etc. As it is, sometimes the sides of my vett touches speed bumps. On the air intake, it could be relocated to a desired location.

Again, my opinion...if you have the ca$h and, if it would satisfy you, why not?

 

[ZumZum]

Turbos already have a lag time from when you mash the throttle to when the power comes on when they're mounted right next to the engine. I can't imagine moving them farther away would help the lag time any.

 

[hzl6cm]

One one of the speedtv shows, I think Two Guys Garage, they installed one of these last week on an LS1 Camaro. They were very pleased with this, they said lag isn't an issue since once you fire it up it is under pressure all the time. They showed some very good dyno numbers after they installed it. If I had know it worked that well I might have kept my '01 Camaro SS and not traded it in on the Z06 ;-)

Kevin

 

[noel]

turbos definitly work on pressure heat is main robber of HP being in the back would be vary good heat wise but I dont like all the other stuff that has to go alone with a turbo to make it work rite being way back there plus air intake no no no

noel