Running Diesel Turbo on LS1
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Running Diesel Turbo on LS1
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Anyone running a turbo from a diesel engine? The AR specs are up around 1.10 on most of them (6.9-7.4 liter engines) and that should make really good power. And due to them being built for a diesel (whoms powerband only runs to about 4k) it should produce massive amounts of power down low, while being big enogh to carry the engine up to around 6k without bottlenecking. Any comments?
Anyone running a turbo from a diesel engine? The AR specs are up around 1.10 on most of them (6.9-7.4 liter engines) and that should make really good power. And due to them being built for a diesel (whoms powerband only runs to about 4k) it should produce massive amounts of power down low, while being big enogh to carry the engine up to around 6k without bottlenecking. Any comments?
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The best way to figure out if a specific turbo will work with your motor is to get the flow map for the turbo, crunch the flow numbers for your engine and see how they compare.
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A GT42 is basically a Diesel turbo and people have used them successfully, The turbo I have on my car now is a "modified" VNT diesel turbo, and so far it works very well (15psi by 3000rpm on a 402 with a wild cam and good flowing heads). As stated before, check the compressor map and you should be able to figure it out. Just a note, diesel turbos do tend to be physically bigger that can cause packaging issues, you can probably get the same output in a smaller package using a different turbo.