[Diy_efi] Turbocharging a 2.3l was "Wet" Manifold Questions

[Mark S. Riley]

I would really like to see your dyno sheet when you are through with this
project. Where are you located? I would even donate some dyno time for
tuning it. later, Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny W" <watson at iamfun.com>
To: <Diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] Turbocharging a 2.3l was "Wet" Manifold Questions


> Quoting Shannen Durphey <shannen at grolen.com>:
>
> > Would this be a quad 4?  What application?
> > Plans for auxilliary fuel?
>
> Naw it's just a volvo 4 cylinder. SOHC 8V. Basically my
> hope is to turbo it keeping as many parts as possible
> stock. There are 8.5:1 forged mahle slugs availible for
> the 2.3L- but they're fairly expensive, and it'd mean
> pulling the engine. And if I'm going to pull the engine
> I might as well rebuild it... blah blah. So as you can
> see that would get way out of hand and I wouldn't have
> the self control to stick to my budget. This engine is
> just and experiment to hopefully make the car driveable
> (117hp and 3100lbs is not driveable imo ;)) untill I
> can put a more serious engine in it. It has 10.1:1 CR
> as stock and 117hp. The hope is to get a 5 angle valve
> gring, port/polish, and the combustion chambers
> reworked for slightly lower compression. It's also
> getting a performance cam from a relatively high end
> tuner in Sweden (Unitek). With the head mods, cam and
> 3" exhaust power output will hopefully be 150-160 (oh,
> it'll get a different ignition too but more about that
> in a bit). The turbo going on it is a mitsu TD05-13c.
> Fairly small, but it'll spool up like mad behine this
> high compression engine. And I only need 12 psi for
> 290hp which ain't bad for a stock 2.3L with some bolt
> on's and headwork. This would make for a near stock
> green volvo station wagon that eats mustangs. Now
> that's entertainment. To help me get to that boost
> level both intercooling (either a cut down truck
> intercooler or 2 volvo cores) and water injection will
> be used.
>
> Now, the ignition and fuel issues. It has a notoriously
> crappy chrysler ignition with NO boost retard feature.
> I see my choices here being either fitting an ignition
> from a factory turbo'd 240 which has boost retard,
> fitting and MSD of some sort, or whatever other options
> this list has. hint hint. Seems like the basic MSD 5AL
> BTM is tough to beat at 166 bucks.
>
> As far as fuel goes, it currently has LH 2.0 with
> bosch "yellow" 19lb injectors. Good for 150hp or so. I
> have 2 cold start injectors (worth 30hp each) wired up
> to be driven by the 02 sensor (they sense a lean
> condition). But that's pretty crude and only gets my to
> 210hp tops. I see my options here as either being to
> fit an injection system from a late model turbo car (LH
> 2.2 or 2.4), or do something like the mega squirt.
> Again I'm open to suggestions as according to Bruce I
> seem to be taken up with the overpriced commercial
> engine management crowd. So I'm looking to be
> enlightened. Thanks for any help! :)
>
> -Kenny
> AKA Captain Bondo
>
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