america8371

I was wondering what u all thought of remote mounting a turbo. From what i hear, basically its replacing your muffler with a turbo and running your intake piping and oil line to the back of your car. They say it cheaper because you dont have to buy extra parts like a new exhaust manifold and as long as you fairly strong internals there wont be a need to upgrade engine parts. And its a heck of a lot cooler. Its for people who want to run low boost. What do you all think (especially you Maxima owners who are running turbos).

Heres a website about it. STS Turbo

internetautomar

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we actually did discuss that a while back
here

pito11213

I also heard there is a problem with mounting the maf sensor correctly.

Brad92SE

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You would be stuck with a small turbo since the exhaust gas would be cooled off by that point, and it would be hard to spool a decent sized turbine.

blacks92seAuto

any picutres of this type of turbo setup?

MrGone

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In for pics on how you ladies are going to fit the tubing under our cars

Nissan gave us some room with our cars, not like chevy, where you cant even get a wrench in for changing spark plugs

4dscPat

It's been done on a Camaro, with supprisingly good results from what I hear.

Brendan

weird, never heard of this

CyMax

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Good lord that looks funky!! 4dscPat, where did you find that pic? I'd like to write and pose some of these Q's to whomever makes these.

internetautomar

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WTF are you talking about??
I'll bet I can change my plugs faster than you can

Maxzilla91

i was thinking of cutting the Y-pipe and mounting it somewhere along those lines

i saw some 300zx turbo manifolds on ebay.. i wonder if they fit our max, and if they could make life easier for us to go turbo

4dscPat

http://www.superchevy-web.com/techni...rs/0411sc_sts/

Wiking

Thats neat system.

One small nuance: Long intake is good for myriad reasons; one bmw with woodstove parked on my front yard couple of years ago. Whole trunk was overflowing with wood gasifier and burner, cooler and tar stripper. Long 3" pipe to the engine feeding the gasified pine/birch pebble gas. Just five minute preburn and the guy was on his way. Typically these gasifiers were used in trucks, front, during WWII, and very poor performance. While this tar -bmw was no rubber burner, nobody had to push it. 150miles with one square feet of pebbles... And he did not fill gvmt coffers with the 5$/gallon gas.

DanNY

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nothing good can come of this

Jeff92se

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I know of some Z31 turbo manifolds and turbo for sale.

internetautomar

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you haven't sold those yet???

MrGone

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3 weeks

goon9

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Wouldn't there bee alot of lag?

MrGone

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yeah, but the one I saw the most of was on a V8 Camaro and they used a smaller turbo. It worked ok but meh. IMHO turbo's belong in the engine bay.

mtcookson

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there wouldn't be much lag if you sized the turbo properly... which is much smaller than what should be ran on the car.

the most important thing needed to spool a turbo is heat. by the time the exhaust gets to the turbo in the rear it has lost a substantial amount of heat which is why you need the smaller turbo. also, i would be very, very scared about running over something and ruining the turbo (maybe cut an oil line or something or just simply hitting the turbo so hard that it cracks), or getting it in water... you would definitely have to not drive it when it rains out. get that turbine housing wet at all and you'll be looking for a new turbo in no time. hot cast iron and water don't mix at all.

also, it might be a bit scary if you sucked up some water through the intake. since a regular turbo setup has been done on our maximas numerous times i'd just stick to what is works and what is proper nonetheless.

DA-MAX

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this thread is in here too...

Jeff92se

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Actually velocity is what you want. If you could spool the turbo with ice cold exhaust, that would work. But you can't spool w/o velocity, no matter how hot it is.

subs1000w

proboly do to no space under the car you would have to cut up your spare tire well and mount the turbo there. this would eliminate the water hazard since the air filter would be in the trunk plus it would just add to the sleeper thing because the turbo wouldnot be visable from under the car at all

im not sure how you would get the charge pipe back up front but you could always get some ideas from these pics





nothing like having an intercooler in your backseat

mtcookson

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with equally matched velocity a turbo would spool much faster with very hot, expanding exhaust compared to ice cold exhaust. heat definitely plays a very important factor. velocity is needed of course, but so is heat.

Jeff92se

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Since when is the exhaust still expanding when it comes out of the engine? It's cooling if anything. If the gas is traveling at xx speed, it will spool the turbo. Doesn't matter if it's 1 million deg or 50 deg.

Heat usually is a factor in generating exhaust gas velocity. But it's the velocity you want, not the heat. Or I should say, heat helps maintain the velocity, not create it.

mtcookson

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which therefore makes heat a very important part of spooling the turbo.

not all of the fuel is burned in the combustion chamber so there's always some still burning on its way out and until it doesn't burn anymore it will be hot and expanding.

Jeff92se

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Only for maintaining the existing velocity.

Maybe in a rotary application or in a very untuned turbo kit application. Enough unburnt gas in the exhaust to keep the exhaust that hot and expanding would probably kill emissions and any cat also. And incidently, a very rich mixture = lower exhaust temps, not higher.

3rdgene

as if our cars dont run to rich anyways...lol

95turbo gxe

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I have the twin remote turbo set up and im running 9,s *****es