run a Gas engine? Would it be worth the effort?

thanks.

 

Anyone's opinion?

 

ttt for ya. I'm wondering if the turbo off the new ford diesel 6.0 will work on a homemade kit for my 2000 5.4 f150.

 

chances are since alot of DSM guys are running hx35's off of rams that it would work just fine. Might even be a little small for you.

 

i dont know anything about the ford turbos but the duramax turbos have variable turbine vanes controlled by the pcm and in order to use a duramax turbo on a gas engine you would need some way to control the degree of the vanes in the turbine

just throwing it out there in case the ford turbos are the same

 

The turbos off the 6.0L PS's are VVT's also.

 

Depends on the size of the engine, RPM requirements, flow requirements, etc.

Diesel engines only spin about half as fast as a gasoline engine. A rule of thumb for determining where a diesel turbo will work in a gas application is to cut the volume in half, so a 6.0L diesel turbo would be okay for a 3.0L gas motor that spun twice as fast as the diesel, or a 7.3L turbo would work okay for a 3.65L motor, etc...

That method is okay for a guesstimate... There are lots of other variables to come into play like how much flow you need, whether it's low-end or top-end, etc. If the turbo is too small, you'll overspeed the turbo or waste alot of energy out the wastegate.

I would suggest using the method above to try to narrow down the turbo applications available, then checking the compressor maps for those turbos to see if the flow requirements meet your needs and horsepower requirements.

If a single diesel turbo is too small, you can run twins, or go searching through a heavy duty truck boneyard for an over the road truck or heavy equipment engine. Alot of those trucks have 10-16 liter engines with single or twin turbos that might work better in a single turbo setup on a gas V8.

 

Found a kit on got-pressure.com. I don't know if the guy is still making the kits or not. Coming in a $5200 for the entire setup. Seems like a lot of $. What does a t-76 come on?

 

What, did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night? It doesn't matter how fast an engine spins, X amount of horsepower takes X amount of air, regardless of engine configuration or speed. Period.

 

A turbo off of a ISX cummins would look VERY large under the hood of a truck. 5.5 Inch dump pipe would be kinda big to route between the frame and engine...