Turbo help what turbo do I have
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Turbo help what turbo do I have
A buddy gave me a turbo off of a 350 cummins. What size turbo is it? Thanks
Bigblockfox- Posts: 38
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Re: Turbo help what turbo do I have
It looks like this one. http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/634074-so-i-got-a-turbo-well-two-actually.html
Bigblockfox- Posts: 38
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Re: Turbo help what turbo do I have
about a 76mm. dinosaur of a turbo. very inefficient for a gas motor.

whatbumper- Posts: 1762
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My brother uses the turbos off a 5.9 Cummins for is Honda engines. I want to say those are 56mm Holsets.
jones- Posts: 1413
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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?
Bigblockfox- Posts: 38
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I would not go through all that work for so little gain.
bbfhnj- Posts: 11
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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.
Unless you just want to experiment.

AK- Posts: 67
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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.

whatbumper- Posts: 1762
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4 of them might work decent on a stroker engine. I've actually been debating it.
whatbumper wrote: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.
EVE- Posts: 114
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hmmm. I would hate to see the piping.

whatbumper- Posts: 1762
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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.
EVE- Posts: 114
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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
Bigblockfox- Posts: 38
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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.
EVE- Posts: 114
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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.
Bigblockfox- Posts: 38
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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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