Looks like someone was trying to go single turbo build and got into the complications and gave up. Anyone know who it was?
He’s in the v10 group on FB. Can’t remember the name of the shop but I think he said he decided to go back to building a turbo V8. (Was going into I think a B7 or something)
I knew I seen it on there. I was more so just wondering if he was on here. Wanted to know what made him decide to give it up and what he really struggled with.
I don’t think so. He spoke a bit on it in his post in the V10 FB group in the comments. The reasons I remember him saying were complication of the build and cost vs doing a turbo 4.2L.
Iirc it is still in AZ classifieds
I think what you get is the average fab guy can fab up a basic log manifold (that is shown) Nothing special about the log manifold. Then they mount a huge turbo and even though there was clearly no real thought into the project you quickly realize it’s a dumpster fire that will never work.
One you can’t just willy nilley put a huge turbo where ever you wish. Just look at the picture you can already see.
1 well the coolant lines are most likely going to melt off the back of the head
2 how do you plan on closing a hood
3 where is the dp going to go. There really isn’t any room for a proper side turbo down exhaust
4 where the turbo is located your going to have to cut over 1/2 of your internment fire wall out.
5 remember the ECU breaks the motor into two banks on each side of the motor. They just have one 02 bung. So in theory you would have to go standalone as the stock computer isn’t going to like that.
6 Then you see the typical B5 O1E transmission for the “manual swap” and then the list of things that need to be implemented. It quickly adds up why this is for sale.
Basically this is nothing more than a log manifold with a huge turbo…and while it’s always cool car porn…
I guess for me. When you see REAL builds… REAL thought out builds that people actually put thought in and time in. Not hack shit that nobody would ever want to drive or would never really drive. You look at this dumpster fire and say what a POS.
A few of us in the v10 fb group tried explaining this exact thing to him, told him to come here to get a better understanding of why none you guys stuck turbos in these cars. He wanted to stick it into an s4 if I remember correctly. But when we tried to explain it to him he took it in offense… another FB warrior proves how much better than audi revolution he is.