Aside from the lag he probably has a red hot turbo somewhere near the fuel
tank so a turbo failure or fire would be more than just interesting. The
car must also have a really long oil pressure line going to the boot and
back.
What I'd be asking myself was if the owner spent this much time working on
one bad idea how many other bad ideas had he implemented on the car.
Weslake-Monza 1330
In a message dated 16/09/2011 05:23:19 GMT Daylight Time, dwoerpel@wi.net
writes:
Thanks for the explanation! That's just weird, imho. Very strange setup
and have never heard of that before. Drop in a Honda Vtec and be done.
Minimania has a kit. ;-) just kidding...but I'd like to drive one.
Dave
> I was confused about that as well and asked, apparently the owner thought
> that there wasn't enough room for the turbo under the bonnet, so he
> mounted it in the rear and plumbed the intake to the back. I commented
> that I thought that that would make for a great deal of turbo lag, but
the
> response was that there wasn't, but it did go through head gaskets and
> rings- I'm not sure what kind of boost he was running, but if you can't
> keep head gaskets on it (I think that I'd use a Metro Turbo gasket
myself)
> and you're going through rings that you've got too much boost and too
much
> heat.
> Maybe add an intercooler as well to the mix and it might last.
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