Turboing a Tercel
 

Hello,
I'm crazy enough to turbo my '92 tercel. I've done all my research and looked through all of the projects on this site. The problem is that the 3EE engine in the tercel is fairly crappy and can only take 6~7psi of boost. I'm planning on running 5~6, how do I modify the wastegate to release earlier than when it was designed? I picked up a TD05 which I believe has 8-10psi stock...

Re:Turboing a Tercel
 

o good god.
another "how do i lower boost" topic

length the actuator rod.

also. just give it 15psi and see what happens.

Re:Turboing a Tercel
 

A friend had a Tercel. It shot a rod through the block (dont ask.... ;D ) and all I could think when I saw it was, wow, these are the size of a pencil. Smaller than a d-series even.....

Good luck on your project,
Dont get too boost happy...... ;)

Re:Turboing a Tercel
 

Other than my 'spare 86 accord' I also had a spare 92 Tercel I drove around. It would do good burnouts because of the little tires :)

Turbo would be funny in a tercel. Would be fast too.

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In the june 2001 issue of Import Tuner there is a chick with a turboed Tercel in it.
Looks very nice though and it's an automatic (chicks).
They used a Mitsu TD05-14B turbo and they say it runs un 11 psi of boost and she got a single shot of ZEX on it to...that bitch is crazy....the motor has to be rebuild though to take that much, cause they are really weak.

Re:Turboing a Tercel
 

She had a 5EFE, an engine that is far superior to mine. This engine I have is so bad even the whole tercel community looks down upon it... ???

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I think you have a slightly misguided view in the difference between "fast" and "faster than it was before".

We put a ZEX kit on my buddy's bone stock, lucky to be fuel injected 86? 89? Golf, and oh yes, it was a lot "faster than it was before", but it still posted a 15.7 as opposed to it's 17.3. So it was definately not "fast". ;D

Re:Turboing a Tercel
 

You know, Toyota has solved your problem already. Just import and drop in a 4E-FTE. Or better yet, Use the head and turbo setup on a 5E bottom end. But then again, just dropping in the 4E-FTE would surpass both of your current HP and torque figures.

Re:Turboing a Tercel
 

ok, so it will be faster.

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If money was not an issue I would've done that a long time ago. The thing is a 4efte costs $1750 USD (2800 CDN), I can turbo my 3E for 400CDN. With the knowledge I gain from this I will be able to use it for future engines/cars.