Is a single turbo easier to run than a twin turbo setup?
i was reading about turbo's in the forced induction page, it was saying that a songle turbo is easier? i don't understand that, don't u want the turbo running off of exhaust from both banks i can'e see how it would be easier if u just put one turbo on there, personally i think it would be easier to make a set of headers that basicly make a turbo bolt on right to the head, and then run the 2 intake outputs from the turbo's to a y and into the intake manifold, like i realize that would be alot of work, but that would be better for the engine than putting a turbo on half of the cylinders, like think of the difference in back pressure! it would almost feel like u have a constant miss
also, just incase i do accually go find a set of turbo's how do i make the waste gate have that wicked hiss? u know like when u rev it it goes whooom tssssss i like the tssssss part it's just the sound of power, if u were to make a... i don't know..... a chevy aveo and give it that hiss, i would buy it,
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
understood, but don't u want equality? i know most high preformance headers are molded so that each pipe is the exact same length, putting a single turbo off of one head on there would completely defeat the purpose of an h pipe or thoes headers or anything like that
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
You are using only exhaust from one head to turn the turbine in the turbo. That turbine forces more air into the intake. The more turbos you have of the same size, the more air is going in. Just because you only have one doesnt mean there is a problem because the other header is different from the turbo header.
my dad has a 96 f-150 with a 5.0 in it, if i were to take that upper intake and put it on my car, what kind of power loss are we looking @? cuz it's got dual intakes, and it's rght @ the front of the engine, right above the waterpump, i was just thinking it would be so much easier to run twin turbo's with dual intake or would that drop down to a fraction of what i have, i know my dad's truck has less power than my car, is that in the intake or the heads?
and then i run into the problem of my mass airflow, is it ossibly to go dual maf's?
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
Do you know where they got the bracket to put the radio in the a/c vents? I've long hated the way ford put the radios at the bottom.
i see someone asked him that question, personally i prefer to build up my own vehicles, i was curious if anyone knows what type of headers thoes turbos were on, i want to find a set of them, that is the same type of twin turbo setup i was thinking of on my stang
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
You do not need two throttle body openings for the power you are making. Once you outgrow a 80mm throttle body then you can start looking into dual intake paths
You do not need two throttle body openings for the power you are making. Once you outgrow a 80mm throttle body then you can start looking into dual intake paths
i inderstand that, the only reason i was contemplating it was because it would have a completely different effect than a y pipe to a single intake, plus the dual f-150 intake is strait off the front where as the mustang is off to the passenger side
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
also, how would twin turbo's work with an intercooler? the only way i can think would be for the pressurized air to run @ the bottom of ur front bumper to the intercooler where it flows up and into your intake but this would involve putting the intercooler sideways and it would be too tall wouldn't it?
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
in my opinion, your making things more difficult for yourself. their are plenty of cars that are single turbo that run daily without the problems you are so worried about. and if ur looking to get HP you are better off with a single turbo setup. but again, its only my opinion.
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Maybe I didn't read this whole thread thoroughly but I've seen both an assumption and a concurance that a single turbo runs off only one cylinder head (one bank). That is very incorrect. Single turbos run off BOTH cylinder heads (BOTH banks).
You have to run TWIN turbos from BOTH sides, the article already has images showing this.
The reason TWINS are harder than single setups is they require much more piping, and also the location of the MAF is important, most of the time you need a "blow through" MAF that meters the air from both turbos, or have 2 MAFs front of each turbo or an extra pipe that joins both turbos at the intake-side with a single MAF.
My advice, check out www.amazon.com and buy "Maximum Boost" by Corkey Bell. Read it twice, then come back with questions. This book is by far the best guide if you're serious about running a turbo.
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Is a single turbo easier to run than a twin turbo setup? 
it's just the sound of power, if u were to make a... i don't know..... a chevy aveo and give it that hiss, i would buy it,
