Question : 3800 turbo for a 3900 VVT

[TheMuscleShark]

Hello,

New to the forum and not really experienced with cars. I am really curious about the possibility of a turbo for my car. I can see that there is plenty of room for it, and the intercooler as well.

I am pretty sure that there was a turbo kit for my older 04 Impala 3800 and was curious if those might be compatible applications. I assume that some custom fabs will be required as well.

So, is this possible? Am I way off base about the possibility of this working? Does the sideways engine make this overly complicated? Does anyone want to do it for me??? hahaahaa,

Thanks for any help you can give me!

PS. I have asked this in another forum and they all told me to go buy the 5.3! Please have some better news for me.

[bearbear3_4]

The layouts are similar. My setup is modeled after the 3800 setups with the turbo mounted to the cross over and sitting where the stock air box was. I was going to buy a 3800 kit and make it work but figured I could custom make something cheaper then hacking up a kit.

You would be able to use most of the exhaust parts from the kit and make it work but you would still have to do a custom setup.