94-95 DIY turbo... Whatcha got?

[Ralph]

DIY turbo on a 94-95.  Think: Budget but good.

Single, dual, whatever.  If you can send me to someone that's already done this and has a solid plan down, I'd be thrilled.

Please, in accordance with Joe's interest in speeding up the tech here, repost what you know as well as linking.  It would be nice to have the info HERE.

Thanks

[TireSmoke]

well there is the cheap/easy way and there is the expensive/hard way.

There's a couple of proven/documented winner blower kits that are really affordable like the novi 1000, vortech sc/s-trims.  I bought my 92 coupe w/ a built 308 that had a TW top end and a SC trim making 13-14psi.  The block was split in half w/ a dss main stud girdle.  Thats how much power these things are capable of.

If you wanna go the turbo route, I really recommend asking over on turbomustangs.com.  Not taking away from BAM's tech section, but you'll get a lot more people replying that are familiar with 5.0Ls and turbos.  You might want to look up gtluke over on kkkoral and shoot him a couple PM's.  Last time I talked to him he was buying an alum. fms driveshaft off me for his turbo project car.


As far as opinions here... what kinda setup were you thinking?  Single/twin?  DIY/Kit?  You have a welder & experience?  IMHO, unless you are at least experienced w/ MIG... better yet TIG... you are better off with a kit.  You're gonna be tearing the front end off the car for a turbo setup.  If its DIY you'll be scavenging forums/ebay/CL/JY for turbos, wastegates, headers, turbo flanges, BOVs, IC, injectors, fuel pump.  You'll be cutting and welding pipe and doing a lot of fab work to get things in place.

Oh... and before you get this idea about having a 450rwhp car... please do me a favor and make sure the *** damn car has sub frame connectors, a spec stage 3 clutch if 5spd, a tremec tko/gforce t5/built-auto, aluminum driveshaft, 31+spine axles, and battle boxes.  Heck, you probably should have upgraded brakes on the thing too.  There's too many people driving around with motors built to the moon that neglect the rest of the car.  They end up with a monster motor'd car that can't go 1000 miles without breaking something.  I'm having memories from corral day and a vehicle named "timebomb:

[quake101]

Oh... and before you get this idea about having a 450rwhp car... please do me a favor and make sure the *** damn car has sub frame connectors, a spec stage 3 clutch if 5spd, a tremec tko/gforce t5/built-auto, aluminum driveshaft, 31+spine axles, and battle boxes.  Heck, you probably should have upgraded brakes on the thing too.  There's too many people driving around with motors built to the moon that neglect the rest of the car.  They end up with a monster motor'd car that can't go 1000 miles without breaking something.  I'm having memories from corral day and a vehicle named "timebomb:

I agree, the rest of the car needs to be upgraded as well. If your making 2x the power of the original engine setup, you  gotta upgrade the rest of the car to handle the power. I've watched many videos or read stories about ppl ripping s*** up because they didn't upgrade the rest of the car to handle huge amount of power.

[Gravel]

Hey Ralph, can you build your own headers?

[Ralph]

Guys, I've had high-hp cars before, I'm not a tard.  Just never had forced induction.

And Grav, while I probably could fab all the pipework, I really don't WANT to.

[Gravel]

Really the pipe work is the only thing that is something special for the car, damn near everything else, except programming, can be found via wrecking yards or ebayish sites..

Junk yard turbo systems have been making cars go fast for a long ass time now..

[TireSmoke]

certainly do-able... its just so easy to get that one box in the mail thats got everything you need (blower)

[Gravel]

JD, you are obsessing...

[GotTorque?]

I got a guy on our Buckeye Stangs forum, his username is PoonRacing.  He's got a 95 turbo setup.  His car runs really well and he's a really smart practical guy.