Anyway, the car was built out of spare parts and acrap metal. I got the car for free, a customer at my shop didn't want to fix it. All it needed was a crank sensor. New they are about $300 so he didn't want to spend the green. I took the car to scrap it and decided to use it as a winter rat since it was in pretty good shape, only had about 130k on it and was a 5spd AWD car. Car had no options at all, no A/C, no ABS, no cruise... a bare bones car. Plus it's a wagon, and I always liked wagons
Anyway, there was another wagon on my lot to be scrapped, it had a blown motor, so I stole parts off that to fix this one and drove it for a while ..... I always wanted to turbo a Subaru... then one weekend while staring at a pile of parts from my Supra project, I decided to drag out the welder.
This is what I did.
Cut up the stock exhaust and welded on a manderl bend for the up pipe.
I needed some metal to form the rest of it with, so I went to the scrap metal pile and pulled out this Honda muffler. It had a stainless wraper around the muffler of a decent gauge, so I used it
Getting it together
almost done
Here's teh Toyota CT-26 turbo I used. This is next to a turbo off an old 1.8 GL10 Subaru for comparo
Here's the turbo all mounted up
A shot of the downpipe with the divorced wastegate dump tube... when I hit full boost, this thing makes women and children jup from the sidewalks ... it also belches flames sometimes on a really hard shift
another shot of the turbo on the car
This is the first version of the setup. pipes are really sloppy and there is no scoop for the IC
that setup proved bad, since on a hot day I was in a rush, passing some cars and in the boost. detonation got pretty bad, but I was commited and couldn't let off... I ate a piston... so I had to swap the motor
here's the new motor going in... a 200k + engine out of aotehr junk wagon.
here's a shot of the Audi S4 Biturbo Bosch BOV I'm running... same one is used on Porsche and some Saabs
With the new engine, I needed to not be lazy and actualy make a scoop for that IC... this was the plan all along, but I just never got to it the first time. Another trip to the scrap metal pile and
The scoop works awesome... right now I'm running 87 octane on 5-6psi of boost.... I almost never get detonation. So far only once was it audible and that was comming out of a turn in high gear/low rpm on a high 70 degree day. In the winter time, I'll have nothing to worry about.
Here it is pretty much the way it is now. I don;t have any pics of the engine/turbo setup, But it's been cleaned up a bit and I made a cold air intake in the fender. I've got an oil leak to take care of and I need to put my MBC back in there so I can turn up the boost. I'm gonna run it inside though and mount it on the dash so I can twist it whenever I want ... also have some WRK suspension goodies and a DIS-2 (the new version with retard control) ... all that need to go on... probably pretty soon, hopefully this weekend.
I bet its got really good ported heads, ~14:1 compression and a 250 shot or so.
Though you probably would put the hurt on a stock SS.
