rotary>piston

I was talking to a friend of mine, she just got a dodge 2500 turbo diesel, and she was showing me the engine (she thought it was strange looking because it's an I-6, and she's used to V's). Anyway, I noticed that the turbo looked pretty big, and I was wondering if it was possible to put that on a gasoline car. Would it be? I don't know what kind of CFM those flow, but they put out enough to supply 5.9 liters of engine air at 3500 rpm (redline).

I don't know, this is just a thought. This first came to me when I was on a bus. I was listening to the turbo, and thinking, "what a waste, put that thing on my car and it'll fly!". Obviously a bus turbo would be too big, but what about other TD's?

TYSON

My turbo is bigger than the one on my brothers semi. The only trouble with buying a turbo from a diesel shop is you REALLY have to know exactly what you want. There are so many different configurations that a newby like yourself might end up with something that doesn't work very well. Buying one from someplace that sells them for performance car use increases your chances of getting one that will work well.



Keep in mind that performance shops charge much more because someone did some research to get the right selection, more middlemen, plus the fact that go-fast goodies always seem to cost way more. The turbos all start at the same factory though.

TYSON

Is it the 2003 Dodge? Man, I can't believe how quite those things are.

eljefe62

you couldn't do that w/out some serious engineering

diesel engines have compression ratios of about 18:1,whereas ours is (depending on year and na/turbo) 9.4 (86-88), 9.7 (89-92), or lower for turbo.

the pressure from those turbos would probably pop our engines open

and the turbo lag would be ungodly for a turbo that size also