How Difficult to do a remote turbo?

[Soon2B240sx]

I read a little bit of info about remote turbo systems and think they are the cheapest and seem easy to do. Just curious if anyone knows how you send oil back and forth to the turbo details ect. ect.

[fiznat]

what is a remote turbo??

[WDRacing]

Retarded idea when you can installa regular mounted one. The remote mounts are used when you have no room under the hood. They come with increased lad also, not good for a 4 cylinder.

[BadMojo]

what is a remote turbo??

Mounting the turbo somewhere other than the engine bay, usually in the rear, under the car.

As WD said, I suppose it's useful when you've got a big ol' V8 crammed in to your engine bay, but for us it's pretty pointless. It's used in applications where heat and room in the engine bay are an issue.

Install may be easier, but I don't think it will be cheaper. And, like WD said...despite what the makers of remote mount systems say, you'll have some increase in lag. I've seen LS1 guys using the STS turbo mention it.

[klattr1]

what is a remote turbo??

instaBOOST with a remote control.lol

[fiznat]

lol Id put my turbo in the glove box for the ultimate sleeper look.

...and the bov under the sun visors. nobody would think to look there eh??

[Jookmasta]

besides the gobs of lag, wouldnt this also put the turbo in harms way due to its location? i can only imagine how the manifold would look and how much intercooler piping would be required.

[hamsturbation]

i think it was in hotrod magazine i saw a turbo LS1 fbody with the turbo behind the axle...it didnt have too much lag..(got to love 346cid! weee!) but what stuck me as really cool is they didnt have to use an intercooler! the pipe from the back of the car to the engine was cool+ed by air underneath the car...

[Projex240]

the best question is...why? Ive seen very few cars that cant fit them under the hood.

[PantherRacer]

"No, our intake tubing volume is about the same as most conventional turbo setups that are running a front mounted intercooler, and less than many of them that run large intercoolers. We aren't talking about a small compressor filling up a large air tank, we are talking about a huge compressor filling up a very small volume which only takes a fraction of a second. Our systems compress the intake tubing in about .05 seconds. So much for turbo lag..."

No, our turbochargers are sized to operate at this remote location. Just like any turbocharger, once the turbo is up to temperature and in the rpm range for which it was designed to operate. The boost comes on hard and fast. All of our systems will produce full boost below 3000 rpm. If you were to take a conventional turbo and place it at the rear, you would have lots of lag and consequently, our turbo wouldn't work properly if mounted up front.

so they say...but the boost seems to come on quite quick lookin at da videos...hmmm

[cosmo]

I remember reading about those on some domestic forum, and there was a # of guys who were saying they were putting up some good #'s with that STS system.

But that was on some big ol' V8's, so putting one on a KA would probably not be a good idea

[Titan]

Is everyone forgetting one of the most important facts?

Aside from exhaust gas forcing the turbine wheel to rotate, turbochargers are primarily heat scavengers. Meaning, a large portion of that rotating momentum is derived from the differential of heat before and after the turbine blade.

In other words, the hotter, the more efficient the conversion of energy will be. Hence, the longer the distance to the turbo, the more heat loss, the lower the efficiency.