Looking for a turbo. Time to get serious

**Drew** · 15th January 2006, 09:15

Ok, it's time I got off my chuff, stopped talking about it, and finally did it.
The FZR is in dire need of more poke, so it's getting a puffer.
So I am hereby putting the call out, for someone with a turbo lying around, to part with it cheep. I'm not after anything huge, the big one from a twin turbo subaru would be ideal. Or summat of similar proportion. Even one from an ancient mitsubishi sigma would be good.
I'm gonna leave the old girl carburated to save hassles, but in the interest of grip, someone with a seventeeen inch rear wheel in need of a new home should also hear my call. The eighteen has a limited number tyre coices, and even fewer that are any good.
I dont expect anything for free, but what the car tuning outfits want for them is a joke. (fuckin cage fixers!)
Cheers to anyone with connections, and or bits

**Sniper** · 15th January 2006, 09:20

All the best mate. You should hook up with Death_INC, he has done a few things with Turbo's

**NordieBoy** · 15th January 2006, 09:22

A guy at the Mot Drags yesterday had turbo'd his Katana

Also a supercharged Kawkka.

**Drew** · 15th January 2006, 09:29

Originally Posted by Sniper

All the best mate. You should hook up with Death_INC, he has done a few things with Turbo's

I already cornered him at a party a while ago, squeezed some info out of him. I've got most of the info i need, and a general plan of attack, luckily my bike has got space every where, so I shouldn't have to move a hell of a lot around, not even the radiator gets in the way!

**Posh Tourer :P** · 15th January 2006, 09:37

Nordie, are they all scalically challenged at these meets???

**slopster** · 15th January 2006, 10:15

I would have thought that turboing through a carby would be more trouble than its worth. Surely it cant be to hard to make a basic fuel injection system.

**froggyfrenchman** · 15th January 2006, 10:20

Originally Posted by slopster

I would have thought that turboing through a carby would be more trouble than its worth. Surely it cant be to hard to make a basic fuel injection system.

As long as the increased air flow dosnt push the slides right to the top, it shouldnt be too much of a prob to sort

**Coyote** · 15th January 2006, 10:26

Can you do a EFI system and turbo fairly cheap? I've got a TF185 Farm Bike to try this sorta stuff on. Going to see about making a D.I.Y Nitrous Figger kit for it

**NordieBoy** · 15th January 2006, 10:42

Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P

Nordie, are they all scalically challenged at these meets???

Not all of them...

Just most...

**Sniper** · 15th January 2006, 10:52

That guy on 123 looks a errr bit big.

**Posh Tourer :P** · 15th January 2006, 11:08

Why not just remove the tailpeice and attach a plank of wood??

**Drew** · 15th January 2006, 18:52

Originally Posted by slopster

Surely it cant be to hard to make a basic fuel injection system.

HUH? Even mapping fuel injection to every thousand revs, is pretty serious stuff, and probably likely to cause a loss in power.
Easy as pie to box the carbs completely. That way, the carbs still work exactly as intended, no matter how much boost you feed them. Meaning that because the preasure outside the carbs is equal to the inside, the slides cant be forced open, and the fuel wont be pushed straight out the over flow pipes.
My bike already has a fuel pump, so the gas cant be pushed back out that way either. (said pump will need to upgraded though.)

**speedpro** · 15th January 2006, 19:05

Tjebbe Bruin did a blow through turbo on an old XS1100 motor of mine that was in his speedway sidecar. The carbs weren't boxed in but attention was paid to fuel supply and float bowl breathing as you've mentioned. Death will have mentioned it - don't get carried away with the boost. You "will" kill it. You need to figure what horsepower you want to make, keeping in mind how much money that may cost, and get the best size turbo to achieve that. There have been constant improvements in turbo design so don't get too old a turbo.

**madboy** · 15th January 2006, 19:38

Why don't you stop dicking about and trade your thing on a K6 thou? You should get the deposit on the indicator switch by trading the fizzer, and a nice finance company would be happy to take a major proportion of your income for eternity to pay the balance. At least then you get to ride the bike (well, on payday anyway)...