V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

Anybody has built a turbo kit for a v8 that only have one of the manifolds building boost? I searched but found nothing talking about this subject. My car is a hybrid and there is no way for me to be boosting using both sides because theres not enough room on the drive side.

It's an LS1 Motor and I only want to run 5 to 8 pounds.

I looked everything over and if I want to make this work I can only use the passenger side manifold to produce boost. I would use truck manifolds on my project but ony the passenger side would be pointing up.

Any help is apreciated. If you know of a similar project being done, let me know.

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

ever thought of running a pipe from the drivers manifold underneath the motor to the turbo. if the car is too low and there is a little bit of room up front, turn the mani backwards and run a pipe in front of the motor to the turbo.

there is also the rear-mounted turbo systems...research STS systems....copy them.


what car is it in...maybe helpful for us to know

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

Pic's would help better.

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Mechanical engineer I am not but something about that setup if I'm interpreting you correctly says that ---- would be kinda fucked...
unequal unbalanced loads back and forth on the crank + setting up fuel would be awful interesting. Then there is the whole timing issue....
I could be completely wrong and these are only aSSumptions but yeah...

btw there is no such thing as not enough room. it may not be pretty but there is ALWAYS a way...

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

he isnt saying boost one head...hes talking about just feeding the turbo with one manifold.

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

i think ocd might be talking about the turbo restricting only one head therfor causing more of a load/backpressure on one side or i could be completly wrong

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

running boost pressure of about 15 psi mean you have approximately 30psi backpressure inside the manifold, while an n/a engine usually has around 4psi backpressure in the manifold.

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

alirght n/m just completely mis interpreted what he was trying to say
my bad

still though, seems off balance

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

thats not a good idea. make your own log manifolds. its not that hard

i cant believe nobody has offered the rope solution to the problem. that also seems very fitting to this post

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

ha yea just run the charge exhaust from the one side under and over the transmission. then back up to the turbo. seen it done many times on grand nationals

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i woudlnt mess with the uneven backpressure with that setup. rear mount that ----.

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failure

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Twin junkyard T3's...

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

get fwd v8 manifolds, they tie in together and they hug the block. just put the turbo on the connecting pipe and block off the hole for the factory downpipe. :y

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+1

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this thread is almost a month old and the only thing you dug it up for was "+1"? glad you agree but damn, you have any info regarding to the setup?

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this thread is a failure

Re: V8 Turbo - only boosting from one head?
 

The untuned, un-even turbo ls1 will last as long as this thread

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You can do it easily sure. It'll run fine sure. SAAB does light boosting on their turbo v6's. The problem is getting a big enough compressor paired with a small enough, but not TOO small turbine.
It should be said that AFAIK its never been done to any large extint to know what's going to eventually happen to it. So it would *seem* common since to NOT try to take it very far at all.