Guest escort_boy Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 what is involved in turboing a 2L cortina engine and wat cost are you looking at? what kind of turbo set up is best to use etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toucan Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Just look on RT's site... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest escort_boy Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 lol forgot bout taht. haha but has anybody else done a project like this. my mate is looking at doing it and im gonna be helpin him along the way and just wanted some advice and shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I am in the early process of it now. Have most of the parts just need to rebuild the engine with forgies. The cost for me will be around $5500, but thats with forgies which are round 2g. Al depends where you get stuff form and shit. I have got an Evo7 turbo, injectors, fuel and oil pumps from a mate so that cuts alot of price down. The head is also big bucks unless you know someone. All depends what parts you use, computer is expensive unless you can tune yourself and use an AC delco, or use draw through. Hit up RT as he has done it a few times, or just look on his site it tells a very good tale. I have asked most of the questions you will ask RT so if you(RT) cant be bothered answering ill forward them. http://retrotech.orcon.net.nz/technical.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 what is involved in turboing a 2L cortina engine and wat cost are you looking at?what kind of turbo set up is best to use etc? thats a pretty broad question there... cost depends on how fast you want to go. and the best turbo...depends on how fast you want to go... so, how fast do you wanna go? you can do a super budgo setup for around 150hp for maybe $1000..? or you can go bezerk and have something like mine 250hp for $4000-6000? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest escort_boy Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 so for about 150hp what would u need Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 A turbo manifold either aftermarket like mine or custom made like Methodz100. A turbo, some piping, take your carb off and make up a bracket that bolts on your manifold and route the turbo outlet over the top of your rocker cover and stick a sidedraught SU carb on the front of the turbo and do a draw through on 6-7psi. That should get you around 150hp. Oh, you should also get the head ported. Thats always the first call for a performance pinto. like this: however this this a budget way of doing it in my opinion. I don't like carbs and turbos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest escort_boy Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 why dont u like carbs and turbos rt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I don't wanna start this arguement again... but in my opinion they don't make very good friends and everyone that I know who builds a turbo carb setup always end up injecting it eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draizuh Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I don't wanna start this arguement again... but in my opinion they don't make very good friends and everyone that I know who builds a turbo carb setup always end up injecting it eventually. Turbo carb setups can either be draw through or suck through (i think) and with a suck through, you can intercool, but with a draw through youll need a Pleneum (like with fuel injection). it would probably be a lot either to get get injectors for the pinto. Jinx sold some recently (to methodz i think ??) from the British sierra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidian Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 man.. im shure this has been covered before on a few topics ay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Turbo carb setups can either be draw through or suck through (i think) and with a suck through, you can intercool, but with a draw through youll need a Pleneum (like with fuel injection). draw through and suck through are the same. ie. pictured above. the other carb option is blow through. Where you build a pressurised box over your carb and blow compressed air through that. It is this one that you can intercool and have a BOV but is often more complicated to get right and ideally you need a carb that is designed for turbocharging. Efi seems like the harder and more complicated route and takes a bit more effort in the beginning but once you take into account all the mucking around trying to get the turboed carb to play nicely its all worth it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draizuh Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 ill figure it out one day.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Yeah i brought some injections shit of jinx that iv been looking for for a while. Good deal. Cheers Jinx. If your talking bout the injectors that i got i wont be using them, To small for what im doing tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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