what turbos and how much boost??

[Justin]

hey guys i am thinking about building a turbo diesel and i was curious on what turbos you guys run and how much boost, if you are running turbos from different cars then what are they out of? is anybody running a turbo out of a ford probe or thunderbird turbo coupe??
thanks guys

oh and this would either be for a 1.5 or 1.6, and i know that the 1.5 is a non turbo block so I would need oil squirters which i would probably drill the rods for a small hole to squirt oil on the pistons

thanks in advance
Justin

[SMOKEYDUB]

most of us use the stock turbo that comes on the car which are bigger than most probe or thunderbird ones. I personally run 23 psi without any problems. my jetta is a 1.6 with 391,000 and it runs a 16.7 @84 mph (stock ran 18.4) :twisted:

[Justin]

what turbo is the stock turbo compariable to? and what size is the stock turbo?
thanks guys

[Dr. Diesel]

if you're building up a TD, it might be worthwhile looking through some wrecking yards and finding a good used, or core TD engine to start with. I personally wouldn't bother with a 1.5L though.

[Justin]

i will look through some junk yards but there are not that many VW's in my area, i probably wont use a 1.5 for a turbo setup but i just put in there since i have 2 running and the parts for a third, 1.6's are hard for me to find in this area, but i might be on to a source of them, one can only hope and wait for the right things to come along right?

the reason that i was asking about the turbo size was because of the abundance of wrecked ricers around and the turbos working off of those if i do find something that has a bad turbo or doing the oil squirters from the rods to cool the pistons on a non turbo 1.6 block

plus some of this will never see the road just hopefully dyno time at school next summer