Turbo Pinto

[bmxdave]

Lets just say my pop isnt fast enough anymore. Its already got a 2.1 pinto, so it wouldnt need any fabrication to fit a turbo on the side. However the engine now is high comp, and i dont wanna take the car off the road.

 

Can you build a turbo pinto by taking a low comp pinto, of transit or p100 origin, stick an EFi head on, and bolt a turbo to the side of the head, with a little intercooler hanging off the front? Or is it not quite as simple as that? Does it need a new ecu? And most importantly, how many powaz can you squeeze out of standard rods and bottom end? Of course it wouldnt be doing silly revs.

[dragaddict]

the big problem are the pistons m8

[Supercharged Nat]

you could try and use a decompression plate? you could go efi, but i wouldnt know anything about that. it can be done with carbs too.

[lee_capri]

last one i had was a efi engine with carb on it and the biggest f**king turbo you ever did see it was of a lorry you also need a intercooler,it was running point's and a weber carb,the turbo set up was very basic

[Supercharged Nat]

some info for you: if your going to use an intercooler, either go efi or make the carb is being blown through and not put infront of the turbo so its sucking through- if you suck through the carb and then use an intercooler youl have bomb ready to go off in the front of your car! (that and the fuel will fall out the air and pool in the pipe work/ intercooler!)

 

ive done a blow through carb with a supercharger an its making 200BHP without any professional tuning so far and i think about 220 is do'able with a bit more tweeking and its at a safe 6psi of boost too.

[bmxdave]

Yeah, it could get expensive or time consuming finding bits for a carb, so i thought efi would be a better option.

 

Not long ago i tried to buy a turbo pinto capri. It was EFi but i dont know what the ecu was.

 

Does the standard ecu allow for forced induction and the increase in fuel needed, or can it be mapped, or would i need to shell out for a standalone ecu?

 

Theres a video on youtube somewhere i saw once with a turbo pinto, but it was running 4 injectors on a fuel rail and i probably couldnt afford a setup like that.

[emu]

There are a few people with turbo'd pintos over on turbosport.

 

I beleive that you can alter the ignition timing under boost conditions by using a pressure switch to earth out various wires on the EFi octane plug.

 

I think some people have wound the tension spring round a bit tighter in the airflow meter to deal with the increased volume of airflow.

 

If you do a search on there it'll probably be clearer (and more accurate) than my babbling