I am friends with a guy who is an editor for Low Rider magazine. He is constantly around nice cars and seems to know his stuff. I asked him about greddy turbos and he never really answered my question. He knows I have a Civic and he just went on to babble that I should wait because soon people will be making a new type of turbo. Basically the car will look like it has duel exhaust but that other pipe is not what you think. It is the intake for the turbo. The actual turbo will sit where a muffler would then a pipe would run up front. He said the advantages are: Actually getting cold air (he say its otherwise impossible on a honda), less chance of water and if a cop ever looks under your hood he will not see it. What do you think? He also said you really have to know how to drive a turbo. I do know what he meant but he said "plan on not getting a whole lot of life out of your first one and if you buy a used turbo (ever) plan on replacing the turbo. How do you run a turbo? I think I may have heard you should always give the car a good rev before shutting it off.

 

They allready make them but unless you have major clearence issues like with a F-Body I see no point

http://www.ststurbo.com/

 

iv heard of them on pickup trucks n such... but I dont see it getting any cooler air then infront of the vehicle. when i had my 3kgt, it said in the owners manual to let it idle for about 1 min before shutting it off. thats why they make turbo timers. it lets u take the key out and it shuts itself off after the preset time.

 

iv also seen that one 1 car in a magazine..i didnt get what the point of it was, but thats the only car iv ever seen like that, i would just do a turbo the regular way

 

Yeah, they're kinda pointless if you ask me. Turbo lag from hell, and if you route you piping right, you can get just as cold air with a normal turbo as you would with that.

 

IMO...the suction from the turbulence behind your car would cause turbo lag from hell. see when your car is going at a certain speed, its going faster than air can move into a vacuume. so theres always a pocket that doesnt have anya ir in it behind your car when you're going over 35ish. you can see where it is when ur driving and theres a very slight layer of snow on the ground (like to the point where theres a LOT of blacktop showing) and the snow thats on it flows around in convection currents. my point is...it would cause huge backpressure problems because theres a pocket without air behind your car...and could potentially give ur turbo some future life issues.

 

Actually they are a good idea, remote mounting like this reduces alot of heat in the engine bay which is allways a good thing. Plus on cars like the 93+ Trans-am's, Z28's, SS's, and such there is very very limited room in the engine bay. It is hard to shoe horn a set of headers in there let alone a manifold and a turbo plus all the piping and the intercooler. The lag can be controled by the BOV, WG, and piping sizes. Keeping a constant amount of pressure in the piping is not hard.

On a car like a honda I see no point though as there is plenty of room for everything.

 

I saw this on one of these "tuner/power" shows on TV.

They put the turbo under the vehicle because of lack of space in the engine bay, and said it would keep the turbo a bit cooler because "outside" air would be runnin over it instead of warm "engine bay air". There was a lot more piping involved though.

 

hell if I was going to go f/i with my formula(94 LT1 350 6 speed) I would plop a vortech s trim supercharger on it

500+whp and 530+wtq at only 8 psi = woooooo hooooo