Inliners International Forums General Discussion Hi Performance Turbo setup

tatao- In Dr. Santucci's book there is a photo of a draw-through system using a water heat setup to the manifold. I would think if you are going to be driving it on the street you should have some form of heat to the intake. The water heat to the manifold is pretty easy to hook up.

I wouldn't use a stock exhaust manifold for a turbo. The whole point of a turbo is to make power. I would think the stock exhaust manifold would be too restrictive. I believe there is a picture in the "Power Manual" of someone using the stock exhaust manifold. I think it would be an extremely easy setup with that, but it would hurt exhaust flow. Maybe if you had it extrude honed. This is just my thinking, I could be way off base.

The stock intake would be about the same deal as the stock exhaust manifold. Too restrictive, esp. on the intake side. If you had a turbo you would be trying to force all this air through a tiny opening in the intake. A four barrel or bigger two barrel would probably be the best bet. The carb. you get would depend on what type of setup you are going to use for the turbo (draw-through or blow-through). As far as the water injection goes, it would allow you to be able to run higher boost numbers. The blow-through system with an intercooler would be the best system to use. It requires more work than a draw-through type, but to my knowledge it is well worth it.

I don't know about the collector. If you ran split headers you would have to merge them together then run it to the turbo. A custom built exhaust for your application would be the best thing, but not the cheapest. I think that's about all that I can think of right now. I hope this helps some. John.