stand alone turbo

[streaky744]

i have plans to play with my race car with what i call a stand alone turbo as in its located elsewhere and not out of site behind the engine, thus allowing for a huge turbo, now i was wondering if anyone has done this and if it worked on a road car as well?
as an example of of stand alone please find link below for a corsa that is seriously quick if its still in one bit , but has a great picture of where the turbo is and simply what i had in mind as a mod for race car.

http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/whats-worth/451335-whats-street-legal-540-bhp-10-second-corsa-turbo-worth.html

using race car as the test bench and if it works well, maybe transfer it all to a road car.
understand engine internals will need some attention so it not go pop on its first run in anger.

[t5 pete]

lol you lost me there for a moment it can easily be done if you know a good fabricator also there was a 850 r with it set up like that, the turbo was where the air box was have a look on google and type in swautos 850r.

[t5 stealth]

like this :)

[t5 pete]

found it
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt39/t5pete/the850r2_lg.jpg

[t5 pete]

like this :)

If thats not a rear engined car it must take ages to spool up with the lenght of the pipe work

[claymore]

like this :)

No, that's a remote turbo setup

[claymore]

If thats not a rear engined car it must take ages to spool up with the lenght of the pipe work

that's a common misconception about remote turbos, you would usually use that on a stock high compressoin engine.

[t5 stealth]

No, that's a remote turbo setup

looks quite alone back there if u ask me...........
i was just putin up a pic of turbos lol

[t5 stealth]

If thats not a rear engined car it must take ages to spool up with the lenght of the pipe work

its a bmw

[Alan M]

You will increase lag quite considerably moving the turbo so far away from the head as the headers on the manifold will be very long and with the increase in turbo size lag will increase anyway. This is something that is used in the Ford scene when using larger GT series turbos with Zetec engines in smaller cars like escorts and fiestas. If your going a larger route why not fit a different pedal box with and run a tubular manifold where the servo is now and that way the turbo size and position is down to you and a lot closer to the head.

[wegal]

If you mount the turbo to far away then you will get a large pressure drop across the system, then youll need a bigger turbo to overcome that, but then it will take longer to spool cos a) its bigger and b) cos you have a pressure drop in the exhaust system as well.

Probably over complex to be honest.. its already possible to get a turbo in the space thats so big that you need to do the internals anyway. Why over complicate it all ?

How much power you looking for, Im sure that no matter what number you come up with there is a way to do it in a less complex system. Remember KISS ! Especially on a race car.

[JelT5]

You could use one of these manifolds

Tig-Art manifold (http://www.tig-art.com/inc/sdetail/888)

Out of interest has anyone on here ever bought and used a Tig-Art manifold?