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23rd Nov, 2005 at 12:26:36am

He'd pick the wings of a gnat to save weight then, eh? *wink*

Looks like the biggest hurdle (initially) is going to be having a custom exhaust manifold to the turbo fabricated. I'm wondering if there's enough space back there to try some sort of equal length arrangement? Hmm...

I really need to start a spreadsheet so I can figure out a ballpark of what this is all going to cost.

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23rd Nov, 2005 at 03:22:37am

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Sold the turbo and seeing what the C20XE can do!

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23rd Nov, 2005 at 10:25:53am

watched that again last night too *happy*

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23rd Nov, 2005 at 04:17:04pm

Wil, you could always do a LHD conversion, and get your car more balanced! That turbo, and a chicken sandwich in the RH seat should settle things out nicely! *tongue*

On 22/11/2005 01:10:28 wil_h said:
Those are very neat installations, but there is one drawback (certinally from my point of view) and that is weight and corner weights.

The Metty turbo set-up certinally uses the least ammount of exhaust (although the manifold is a bit weighty). but putting the turbo over the flywheel would bugger up my corner weights even more.

Getting it even across the front is hard enough with a lardy driver perched on one side, never mind the turbo.

The turbo sat that high isn't good for the CG either.

Probably not worth thinking about too much for a road car, but it was the first thing that struck me.

Wil


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Latka

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24th Feb, 2006 at 06:08:59pm

Are there any more folks out there with this type of install?

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25th Feb, 2006 at 10:03:01am

Hi the red clubman is mine the exhaust manifold is a choped up lcb wich lately has been playing up (cracking) ive purchased some 304 stainles now and doing it again the pipe size ive used is 38.1mm outside 2.64mm wall thickness the bellows are 51mm inside as is the pipe to the turbo, in the beggining the turbo was a t3/t4 hybrid but was found to be tooooo big its now a overhauled standard t3 with a .25 exhaust housing cant see any detrimental efect of putting the turbo there in my eyes it was wasted space and i wanted something differentstill comes on boost at 1750-2000 rpm and throughs you in your seat on 10 PSI that olone makes all ok LOL
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