piecing together a turbo kit

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like the subject says im going to be piecing together a turbo kit. im thinking about the B&G hot side. havent decided on the intercooler yet. tail wastegate and tial 50mm BOV. the turbo will either be a percision turbo or garett somewhere around a 70mm. what do you all think? i need help since ive never messed with turbos before and thanks for the help guys
 

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Tial wastegate and BOV is def the way to go on those parts. I dont know much about B&G but i heard they make very quality parts. How much boost do you plan to run? What are the specs on your engine?


Im runnning a 67MM turbo right now. and am going to eventually replace it with a slightly smaller one cuz Im never going to run my car anywhere the boost level my current turbo is able to push
 
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as of right now im doing my H/C/I with AFR 185cc, holley systemax intake, TFS 1 cam. but i plan to do a boss block 347. that why i was wanting something around a 70mm. on the stock bottom end no more the 10psi it should put down some good numbers
 

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It will put down very good numbers at 10 PSI with those heads and intake. And I would imagine a 70MM or so should have no issues on a 347
 

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rz5.0 said:
stock 95 gt cam is better for turbo than a tfs1 cam. tfs 1 if your doing a blower

Care to elaborate a bit more on why? Seems like boost is boost to me...
 

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duh09 said:
rz5.0 said:
stock 95 gt cam is better for turbo than a tfs1 cam. tfs 1 if your doing a blower

Care to elaborate a bit more on why? Seems like boost is boost to me...

I dont know much about what makes a good cam for a turbo but i do know a little so i'll give what i know and hopefully someone can come in and give more info. A good turbo cam will have a larger exhaust duration as to help spool the turbo and also you want little if any over lap with a turbo cam.
 

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Yeah. There are turbo specific cams and blower specific cams that are quite different from what i gather. A lot of Cam manufacturers will make cams designed specifically for turbo's for certain car. Like for instance a lot of companies make them for imports cuz turbos are so common there. SC's are more common on stangs so they make cams for that. Turbo's are on the rise in stangs tho. I have looked and looked and nobody makes a turbo specific cam off the shelf for our 302's unfortunately. SO you have to go custom if you really want one designed for a turbo
 

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duh09 said:
rz5.0 said:
stock 95 gt cam is better for turbo than a tfs1 cam. tfs 1 if your doing a blower

Care to elaborate a bit more on why? Seems like boost is boost to me...

Turbo's don't like overlap and the stock GT cam is one of the only cams that doesn't.

There are turbo guys using stock GT cams making 600-700HP..
 

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Care to elaborate a bit more on why? Seems like boost is boost to me...


"Cam Tech - CHP How It Works
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Chris Mays: Turbo cars act very differently than supercharged or nitrous applications. For any given power level, a turbo motor doesn’t need much duration at all. Compared to a nitrous or blower car, the camshafts in turbo motors are much smaller. Since turbos operate off exhaust pressures, the main objective is to minimize overlap to prevent disrupting the exhaust pulses going to the turbo. If you go from blower to turbo but don’t change cam, the engine would have so much overlap that it couldn’t build boost like it needs to. In an effort to reduce turbo lag in street cars, we often use single-pattern or reverse-split cams that have 3-4 degrees less duration on the exhaust side than on the intake side. That’s because you don’t need much intake duration to fill the cylinder, but if you don’t have enough exhaust duration, the turbo will hit a wall at a certain rpm and run out of steam. What we’re doing is changing the exhaust duration to control the rpm range of the engine. Exhaust duration tremendously affects the operating rpm range of a turbo motor. Let’s say you have a mild turbo combo that turns 7,000 rpm with twin 67mm turbos, but then decide to get more aggressive with better heads, twin 88mm turbos, and a 9,200-rpm peak engine speed. To adjust the powerband, you would leave the intake duration the same while increasing exhaust duration."
 

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with as much trouble as I hear the pre-made kits can be I don't know that I would piece one together. Seems like that would make it even harder.
 

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either mm&ff's or 5.0 jsut did an article on do it yourself turbo kits for our cars and if i remember right you could get everything for around $2,000.00.
it gave all the info on where and how much each part was as far as purchasing. was a really informative article. ill try and find the issue and post it in here so
that you can reference it.....if you already havent!!!!
 

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If you want a cheap cam that will make good power with a turbo setup to run for a little while go with the f303 cam! I know nobody likes the alphabet cams but the f cam will be good for supercharged or turbo applications, and has taken some turbo guys over 1000 rwhp with a 88mm turbo, and others over 800rwhp with a 74mm turbo. As far a piecing the turbo kit together do you plan on making any of your own pipes for the intake or exhaust?
 
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