Don't know if this is too much turbo for my stock converter?? This turbo requires 2700 stall, but if the price is right I can work my way up to it!! I still have the stock down pipe headers etc. would I need that plate you mentioned earlier in this thread with the external wastegate???
I tell you this, If you go to my garage in my sig and view the dyno graph with 440 horse and 615 torque. Those pulls were with a stock exhaust elbow, stock D5 convertor,and a 2 1/4 test pipe. My car was running low 11s with a very similar PTE TE-44 turbo with a ATR downpipe.
Yeah it was a little doggy in first gear, but that was in 1999, 2000,2001
Today there are better boost controllers out there, see above, and those will overcome the lag common to a stock buick with a larger turbo on it.
I put a TA 49 turbo, bluetops, erics alky chip and a RJC bleeder on my dads WE4 with a THDP. With the stock D5 convertor the car spools pretty darned close to the stock setup. That bleeder valve along with erics chip makes the car spool pretty quick.
Set the boost to 22 and turn the timing and alky up :biggrin:
As for your car, you really dont need a external gated downpipe. As in if your going to be running 23psi of boost, there really isnt a need for a external gate to expell a whole lot of exhaust to slow the turbo down. A stock wastegate actuator would get you a low boost of 16psi pretty easily if its adjustable.
I would just buy a RJC plate to get a new surface for the stock elbow puck to seat on, correctly
I hope that clears some things up for you..
Yeah Neil.... Guess i should have just put it on ebay.
Had a engine harness for sale here for awhile, sold on ebay buy it now for 50 more than i had it for sale here. Also sold it in less than 12 hours
I raised the price for ebays 10% fees!
BW
If I still had a daily driver TR it would be on it B! RJC bleeder alone is 40 bux! Hell, throw in a case of beer, maybe then somebody will jump on it??
