I am in the market for a turbo. I have a stock longblock, and I am currently planning on leaving the stock converter in the car, although I have an orange stripe converter sitting around. i guess I just don't feel like pulling the trans right now! i just want to get this thing running as a nice and quick stock converter, pure street car. I am also planning on running either E-85 or alky in it, so I will be pushing somewhere around 25 psi hopefully.
I know the ta49 generally gets you the best spool on a stock converter, but I don't know how well that little bitty compressor cover would like high boost. Right now I have a ta49 with the .82 Garrett housing... its not on the car or anything, and I was told it would spool pretty slow with that housing, so I'm in the process of selling it right now. I'm also considering a pt51... i guess it would be better on the top end, but would I be able to build adequate boost off the line for a decent launch on DRs? what about something like a te44? any other suggestions? I don't have the funds for a BB turbo, so don't bother.
i guess i might end up putting the orange stripe in, but i'm kind of thinking that i want to do a motor rebuild (or 4.1 swap) and a tranny rebuild sometime in the future, so i don't exactly want to go to the trouble of pulling the tranny just to put on a converter if i'm going to do all that other stuff soon anyway. i guess it will probably be at least a year or 2 before i do all that stuff, so maybe it is worth it to put that converter in now. what do you guys think, would it make a big difference to put an orange stripe in there? i guess it might make sense to get a turbo that just works OK on the stock converter, but one I could grow into with the orange stripe. lets hear some suggestions from somebody with a little more experience in all this stuff than me!
I know the ta49 generally gets you the best spool on a stock converter, but I don't know how well that little bitty compressor cover would like high boost. Right now I have a ta49 with the .82 Garrett housing... its not on the car or anything, and I was told it would spool pretty slow with that housing, so I'm in the process of selling it right now. I'm also considering a pt51... i guess it would be better on the top end, but would I be able to build adequate boost off the line for a decent launch on DRs? what about something like a te44? any other suggestions? I don't have the funds for a BB turbo, so don't bother.
i guess i might end up putting the orange stripe in, but i'm kind of thinking that i want to do a motor rebuild (or 4.1 swap) and a tranny rebuild sometime in the future, so i don't exactly want to go to the trouble of pulling the tranny just to put on a converter if i'm going to do all that other stuff soon anyway. i guess it will probably be at least a year or 2 before i do all that stuff, so maybe it is worth it to put that converter in now. what do you guys think, would it make a big difference to put an orange stripe in there? i guess it might make sense to get a turbo that just works OK on the stock converter, but one I could grow into with the orange stripe. lets hear some suggestions from somebody with a little more experience in all this stuff than me!