I am doing a front mount turbo on my TA and i am just mapping out some ideas for the Radiator. It needs to go vertical the problem i see is that i also need push fans because the car is droven on the street and of i do that i will have no washer tank in the stock location.
What have you done to keep a washer tank for your window even if it is not the same tank & factory location.

Also after measuring from the Radiator to the front of the motors accessories (water pump, crank pulley, etc) it seems like i only have about 10" of space. My turbo is an S480 by BW and at the widest it is 11.7". I though about installing the turbo longitude but it is 12" long and is not quite what i want to do.
How do you guys make the "big" turbos fit in that location? I will not have a turbo in the battery location.

Thanks!
-Kenny

 

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i am on the same boat, got a borg warner s475 and like you said its about 11.5 inches and im only seeing about 10-11 between where the radiator would be and the crank pulley, and even less room in front of the water pump loose about another inch. i am thinking about just setting the radiator back even farther, and you would probably have to ditch the washer tank for sure and mount the fans on the front of the radiator between that and the intercooler. the kid whos doin my hotside has the flange pretty much dead center in front. if you find out anything else we could do let me know.

 

Does anybody relocate the washer tank? or get a new one and put it where?

 

why must you keep the washer tank? I'm sure you could fab something up, but it has the pump internal to it IIRC...so that needs to be kept in consideration...

 

This is how I set up my s475 truck manifold system. The turbo is close only about 1/4 inch away from the radiator but it fit.

 

What size is that airfilter (inside diameter where it clamps to the turbo)?

 

I don't have a turbo that size, but this is how I have mine. I wish I would have got the truck manifold setup and got the t6 setup. You live, you learn:

 

5 inch.

 

Standard S475s are 5".

 

Is there any danger with having the turbo that close to the radiator

 

I think it will be ok plus im going to get the housing coated to help keep the heat down.

 

95lt1z383:
Damn thats close! What fans are thoes? How are you supporting the turbo?

 

How do you guys support the radiator from the bottom?

 

would ike to know this as well, alos would like more info on how well the car cools with the turbo that close to the radiator

 

i am guessing lots of money into cooling, no backyard setup there

 

The biggest problem having your turbo that close to the rad is heat transfer, will make the rad a little hotter so make sure your rad will handle the hotter temps! You can do that by more volume of fluid.also with the turbo that close make sure when the car running under a load like when your racing that it don't flexinto the rad and create rubing as time will cause a leak

 

ill post more later but i have about 1/4 to 1/2 inch spacing between radiator and turbo pt76