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Post  Bigblockfox on January 19th 2011, 9:58 am

A buddy gave me a turbo off of a 350 cummins. What size turbo is it? Thanks

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Post  Bigblockfox on January 19th 2011, 10:16 am

It looks like this one. http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/634074-so-i-got-a-turbo-well-two-actually.html

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Post  whatbumper on January 19th 2011, 3:08 pm

about a 76mm. dinosaur of a turbo. very inefficient for a gas motor.

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Post  jones on January 19th 2011, 3:11 pm

My brother uses the turbos off a 5.9 Cummins for is Honda engines. I want to say those are 56mm Holsets.

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Post  Bigblockfox on January 19th 2011, 3:14 pm

whatbumper wrote:about a 76mm. dinosaur of a turbo. very inefficient for a gas motor.


So it would work on a stockish 460?

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Post  bbfhnj on January 19th 2011, 8:54 pm

I would not go through all that work for so little gain.

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Post  AK on January 19th 2011, 9:16 pm

that does seem like a lot of work and b.s. for an old used turbo that you dont have any real specs on. Plus, unless you know the history, that thing could have a half million miles on it and let go at any time.

Unless you just want to experiment.

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Post  whatbumper on January 19th 2011, 11:39 pm

Bigblockfox wrote:
whatbumper wrote:about a 76mm. dinosaur of a turbo. very inefficient for a gas motor.


So it would work on a stockish 460?


the map would be awful on a gas burner. remember they were built to run on 1800-2200 rpm engines.

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Post  EVE on January 20th 2011, 1:49 am

4 of them might work decent on a stroker engine. I've actually been debating it.

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whatbumper wrote:about a 76mm. dinosaur of a turbo. very inefficient for a gas motor.


So it would work on a stockish 460?


the map would be awful on a gas burner. remember they were built to run on 1800-2200 rpm engines.

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Post  whatbumper on January 20th 2011, 8:46 am

hmmm. I would hate to see the piping.

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Post  EVE on January 21st 2011, 12:35 am

whatbumper wrote:hmmm. I would hate to see the piping.


I have plenty of room in the new truck but I'm thinking twin 88's or S480's are going to be better for me.

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Post  Bigblockfox on January 21st 2011, 1:27 pm

After more researching I found that the t46 was replaced by the ht3b. This turbo is rebuilt and has no shaft play in it. Im wanting to run it in a fox with a mild 460. Dont want a race car just something different. Will this turbo support 600hp? If things need to be changed what are they? thanks

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Post  EVE on January 21st 2011, 2:43 pm

Bigblockfox wrote:After more researching I found that the t46 was replaced by the ht3b. This turbo is rebuilt and has no shaft play in it. Im wanting to run it in a fox with a mild 460. Dont want a race car just something different. Will this turbo support 600hp? If things need to be changed what are they? thanks


You could get 600 horses N/A without even trying. Turbos are a pain in the rear to setup and unless your shooting for 1000 or more it's not worth it. This will be my 3rd turbo BBF engine so I'm speaking from experience.

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Post  Bigblockfox on January 21st 2011, 2:55 pm

EVE wrote:
Bigblockfox wrote:After more researching I found that the t46 was replaced by the ht3b. This turbo is rebuilt and has no shaft play in it. Im wanting to run it in a fox with a mild 460. Dont want a race car just something different. Will this turbo support 600hp? If things need to be changed what are they? thanks


You could get 600 horses N/A without even trying. Turbos are a pain in the rear to setup and unless your shooting for 1000 or more it's not worth it. This will be my 3rd turbo BBF engine so I'm speaking from experience.


Are they that hard to set up? I may just want to stick to N/A and nitrous.

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Post  whatbumper on January 21st 2011, 3:05 pm

it's not hard but a single turbo is not normally practical on that large of an engine due to backpressure issues with the large volumes of air that we are talking about in these engines. Y would have to keep your revs really low. It would make so much low end torque that it probably would not be fun to drive on the street.

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