Make Power in a 3.1 F-body for a reasonable price

[Cliff8928]

yeah there are a few things that need to be addressed.. longer TB cables, diff fuel lines/rails, shaving the plenum down so it will clear the car, or trimming some of the engine bay perhaps, moding the exhaust system to fit the heads (the bolt holes on the 3X00 top end are farther apart for the exhaust manifolds/headers) getting new pistons to avoid the insane CR that would be caused... the list continues

Would there still be that much trimming etc.. required for a 3rd gen F-Body, that engine isn't nearly as crammed under there in those as it is in the 4th gen ones, is it?

Cliff Scott
89 BerettaGT
89 Volvo740

[dbtk2]

Re: Turbo questions...

will a diesel turbo work?... what kind of exause work has to be done, and where on the exaust pipe... what needs to bemoved because of the turbo setup?...where do you mount the intercooler?... and where do you get the pipe to do all of this?... and you say you did all of this on basically stock everything you just bolted that bad boy up there and you are having fun... and this is in a Fwd W-body? because i have a 92' lumina euro 4-door thats begging for some Hp.

If the turbo is the right size, a diesel turbo will work, but size is the most important part. You want to try to get a turbo off of an engine with similar displacement.

I didn't do any of the stuff to mine. My car came from the factory with a turbo on it (well, the factory sent it to ASC which put the turbo stuff on it), but they took basically a stock 3.1 and threw a turbo on it. (along with a beefed up tranny) Actually, if you wanted to do this to your FWD lumina, you could do it all with stock TGP parts. It would be more beneficial and probably cheaper to design you own turbo setup for it though. The turbo grand prix parts really aren't the best, and the turbo is kinda small, and the parts are pretty expensive due to their rarity. The rear exhaust manifold, crossover, and downpipe from a TGP would get you started, as well as a TGP computer, then the rest of the stuff you can custom fabricate yourself pretty easily and cheap. Then find a good turbo and get the right flanges welded up so the turbo will bolt up.

I believe there is a very recent thread on here about someone making their own turbo and the whole setup with all brand new parts was under $1500 IIRC. Look around for it, it will probably give you some good info.

Shawn

[skeeterone2]

hey thanks for your input.