TURBOZ28

whats up guys new to the site here, great site i hope to learn alot here, anyway...heres what i want to do, i have a 96 camaro ss and want to put a small sized turbo on it, im thinking about a te28 or a te32 since space in limited on an lt1 car, but this is the idea i have, i want to take a small turbo tap into my y-pipe for the down pipe and tap into the other side of the y-pipe for the exhaust outlet, with the turbo being located along side the lower fender well, i then want to take a small intercooler and mount it where my washer fluid bottle is in front of the radiator, since space is a big issue i will be using a 2 inch flex style hose to come off the compressor and snake it around the front of the car to the intercooler out the other side of the IC and make a custom elbow for my throttle body with a long spout underneath it to suck in the forced air, do you guys think this will work? ill worry about the oil lines and stuff last as i think that will be the easyist part, also i want a small turbo so it spools up quick and im really only looking for about 40-50 more horse at the rear wheels since the engine already has a cam rockers, gears and a 100 shot, im just looking to wake it up a little more not really looking for crazy amount of boost, about 4-5 psi would be good, so what do you guys think... thanks

Johnyquest

I just read that, and I have no idea what you mean... Detail the part about "in the y pipe" a litte more. Also, on a v8, you WILL need either two turbos (one for each bank of four) or a MUCH larger turbo.

hotrex

im in the procvess of using a t3 60/63 on my friends 94 lt1

TURBOZ28

johny,the car has the stock exhaust manifolds, with the y-pipe coming off of it to the cat converters, so i want to tap into the y pipe to get the exhaust pressure, and then tap into it again to let the exhaust from the exhaust side of the turbo back in, and yes a larger turbo would probably work better, just curious if that will work by tapping into the y-pipe,

TURBOZ28

hotrex, fill me in on your friends lt1, is it a home made kit ?

bambooseven

there might not be a whole lot of room, but there is enough room in there for a turbo , a smaller style turbo and a log type manifold, that combination is about the size of aftermarket headers for your car (equal length ones not block huggers) I'd do two T3's, one on each side with a log style mani, run the charge pipes up to the front, through the intercooler and into one pipe to the TB then run the downpipes down to a Y pipe into your normal exhaust, or go dual exhaust cause you can. It'd cost a little more, but your ---- wouldn't be all ghetto like it would be with your stock headers in place. Don't skimp on ---- and you'll be happier with the result (esp because you'll make a bunch more power.

stretch-d

Turbo Engineering put a real nice looking one together with a T04 turbocharger that will produce power levels greater than 500 horses.

It's pictured in Maximum Boost on page 22.

If I was building one for that car, I'd copy that one.

TURBOZ28

yea im looking for ideas now, i dont really want to spend $4000 for a lt1 kit, i want to do this myself for about $1200 if possible,

bambooseven

you could feasably do my version of the setup for $1500