Originally Posted by
awdspyder98
Mmm. Thats interesting. . I would imagine its mostly a tuned tcu with a bigger trans cooler for the autos. Basically to turbo a car all you need are the parts.. install them correctly.. and be able to tune it succefully . The mechanical part of the installation would be pretty straight forward.. you could have some type of custom manifold built to support the turbo or the cheaper way out would be have it mounted in the rear of the car and just plumb the aluminum 2" pipe to the intercooler. Not sure how much room is under the car to run the pipe since I haven't jacked mine up yet. You could use a stock supra side mount intercooler and mount it under the fender well and get airflow through the fog light hole. then plumb the intercooler to the TB.. then its just a matter of installing the mass air flow sensor to monitor airflow. I know Im leaving a lot of the small things out but you get my drift. The real tricky part would be the tuning aspect of it , which I have no idea about. I would assume running 8- 10 pounds of boost through a na block would be okay but Im no expert, just thinking out loud.
Not sure on the trans cooler. Never heard anything about it. LantanaTX swapped clutch packs and called it a day to hold his V8. I know there are differences on the TCU, but not sure if it's a flash file or a different unit (probably flash), but that it restricts torque differently. The original BEGi design, that the members came up with would have been perfect. But the MAF would need replacement with MAP and wired correctly to new ECU, either SRT or 32 amg like I was saying before. With 8 lbs you would be fine on stock everything, no intake mani or internal upgrades. Beyond that... research.