With the insane popularity of turbocharging LS engines, especially junkyard LS engines, it seems like a lot of people have forgotten that turbochargers work on anything else! Of course that isn’t true, they can do great things on engine big and small, but we prefer big. Because turbochargers are really specified based on the power they are capable of supporting, the same turbocharger can be used on a 320 cubic inch engine or a 454 cubic inch engine, if the total power of both naturally aspirated is the same and the total horspower under boost is going to be the same. In other words, if you want to make 700 horsepower then you choose a turbo capable of supporting that regardless of the cubic inches. Now we know this is the simplified way of describing this, but you get the point.
With that said, doesn’t it make sense that a Borg Warner S480 should be able to do good things on a Big Block Chevrolet since it does great things on an LS? We think so and so does Richard Holdener apparently cause he has this cool video of doing just that.
How much power will it make?
Surely you jest sir! There are other engines besides LS motors that respond to tuning and boost? Who knew ?!
OMG! When did this happen?!?!
We all thought turbochargers were invented for junkyard LS engines, like roughly a century before the first LS!
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468 bbc 2 bolt block twin ebay gt45 turbos studded top to bottom flotek heads hydraulic roller cam 1400hp all day long. I know i own it.
Wouldn’t the when the boost came in, and at what rpm it was all done. be hugely different because of cid.
And at the higher rpm want to spin the turbo too fast. ?
because of the exhaust cfm the larger cid engine will produce?
Sure you can bleed some off. but isn’t that leaving power on the table.
Just how much do you loose , in power not only at peak, but the whole power curve with the wrong sized turbo, over the mathed out correct per the formula turbo. ? all other things the same?
That be a cool tech story, to see if a custom built /sized turbo cost is worth the extra power production over slapping an avail. size oem type turbo .
For the regular type build, not the all out get the last tenth of a ft lb’s build.
Bad article. I take you off my feed Fu.