Hi Bling..
TBH m8 i would...why? cuz of the price involved... this setup cost me in the region of 700 notes all in... youd buy a second hand Turbo for that and maybe have a bit left over to go towards yer manifold...you might be lucky and get both but then youve still got the IC,Charge pipes,Cold side to sort,Wastegate?..Oil lines,feeds,switches..modify yer AFM and get some sort of Fuel management or go standalone..bigger injectors too
Loads to do m8 and you can see why a typical Turbo setup would set yer back between 1800-2500k if yer lucky (WITHOUT Standalone/MS) then you got the time involved,fabrication which is more Dollar.. it aint cheap
Now bare that in mind with my setup that can run in its present form up to a Bar of boost and i got everything stock still..even the dam Motronic..this will have the MS setup soon enough then i could possibly up it even more than a Bar depending on how the IC hold up but then im looking at changing Hoses for Pipes so they can handle the pressure..
Dam..im sounding like a Boost junkie already..only had it couple of weeks
We were sort of govererned by time so things could of been done slightly different when it comes to the Manifold..i.e using longer home-made studs on the 2-3 that you cant get too..this is only because where you have to drill the manifold for it to line up properly and ypou get yer stud/nut in there, your so dam close to the actual body of the manifold you cant get the nut to turn or get any sort of decent leaverage with sockets/spanner etc and the 2 nuts on 1 stud trick is useless..everything was tried and everything failed..i went to B&Q and got what looked the same size nut as described in the previous post...not sure on the heat situ with these so i got to keep an eys on em..but i know the thread size so any decent fabrication/hardware place worth there salt will be able to provide me with the sam,e type of metal,thread size as stock OEM ones but just longer.. that would be the only advice i would give someone doing this conversion...get them studs/bolts sorted first..save yer bags and bags of time and frustration.
I havent drove it loads..im on bottletops ffs so i dont go near people..
(cheers Ian
) but it seems relaible enough,manifold coming lose was one of them things..i had the engine hoisted remember few days ago to change mounts..could of been the culpret
Engine mounts needed to be changed anyway so no biggie there..
when i post pics your see how clean it all looks...it bares no resemblence to Jon_bmw's setup when he had it..the only thing the same is the turbo/manifold position..he invented/worked on something which he was happy with and had no reason to change it..he got what he wanted and was very impressed and so he should be...very knowledgable bloke..but now its clean,blends right into the engine bay and tbh unless you stuck yer head in you wouldnt even know it was there
If anyone went wrong now then it would be the same things/problems you would have if you brought any second hand turbo setup or tbh even new setups cause problems...ask the guys
What would i do diffrently which ive sort of answered already:
**Sort manifold studs x 3 to longer reach
**Try a different IC..works well but position of inlet and outlet stubs could be better,my charge pipes are pulled away from the fan blades by clips/cable ties ets as to not hit the fan blades and which themselves have been modded/shaped to give me alil bit more clearence but as to not comprimise there effectiveness..so a custom made e30 one or another secondhand one would be used..
Upgrade?:
**You can upgrade yer IC to a bigger area one that fits infront of yer RAD..might have to ditch yer fan and get an electric fan instead but these mods will allow alot more boost which has been cooled enough to help with knocking/det syndrome
**Megasquirt
**Turbo is a mitusbishi TD04..used in the early Scoobies,used in MR2's,Shoguns...heap loads of cars which will surprise you...i was once i started to google and saw what applications it is used in..you can TD05/06...ther TD05 is comparable to the T3 turbo..maybe a touch better infact..TD06,lol dont think you would need that much power!
So there yer have it....basic answer to yer question is YES i would..the post topic reflects my anquish but this tpoic sheds some light onto the conversion..
Manifold and fabrication of downpipes is in my unexperienced view the main thing to think about,and more than likely the most expensive unless your buying new Turbo's etc
HTH
smoke still there and now i completely pi$$3d off as the phone call prolly told yer..weird thing was i let the engine run for 15 mins and it was still smoking so i 'thought' it couldnt just be the remains of yesterday burning off...
and il have the same amount of power,much more acceleration if i went for the Diesel unit maybe less grunt on the M-way but i know which id rather have..
