I've seen lots of used Dodge cummins turbos on ebay lately. Would it be difficult to adapt them to our trucks? I mean other than the flanges and etc. I don't even know how much boost they make.

I mean you can get them cheap: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33742

Talking like $150-200. It's a Holset HY35 turbo, not sure of specs. I would assume it's a bad *** little unit from what you see coming out of those hopped up dodge cummins.

 

For that price, try it and tell us what happens?

 

If you can weld, you could fairly easily fab up a junkyard turbo.

 

My turbo is a KKK Volvo Marine Desiel turbo. I think you could do it with some fab skills, and the basics needed for a turbo kit.

 

The hardest things to do would be to make flanges, but if you have the tools like a drill press, plasma cutter and welder, its not so difficult. You dont even need to change manifolds necessarily, it would certainly perform better, but you could mount 2 turbos where the 2 cats are right now or if you have shorties, ahead of them, and you would see decent boost.


BTW, while we are all talking about turbos n stuff, are our valves stainless or cast?

 

Dunno, I need to do more research on the matter. I need to know how much our exhaust pushes throughout the RPM, and how much the turbo would boost upon that output. Imagine, a Turbo kit for $500. Crazy. Hey Nelson, I have an idea...

 

Damn, I wonder if you could buy just pipes and valves and make your own flanges to the turbo. That'd drasticly drown the price. Especially if you subsituted a similar turbo. $1500 savings.

 

Okay okay okay. After reading a bit I've decided that for the best results, leave everything alone under the hood. Why make your own when somebody else has done the design aspect for you? STS is ingenious, if anything, I'd make a flange/pipe for the stock y pipe and mount the turbo under the truck. Bleh, need to call Allen tommorw. YO ALLEN!

 

Check out this website. It is mostly Fords, but there is a lot of interesting information. He does some pretty amazing stuff with just junkyard parts. www.toohighpsi.com

 

The onlything I would be concerned with is trying to size the turbo properly. You get one thats too small and it'll spool realy quick but wont support you in the upper rpms or maxes out in cfm real fast. get one that's too big and you'll have more lag.

Other than that a junkyard special could work out fairly well if you have the skills. I don;t have the patience nor the skills I so I bought one. LOL