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#537037 - 29/04/14 01:48 PM Forced Induction
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This post is more out of my own curiosity than anything else, but why are there so many supercharger options for the fiesta and seemingly none "off the shelf" turbo kits? I mean surely the turbo route is easier given the room at the back of the engine where the exhaust is compared to the front where the intake is?

Did people try the turbo route when the st first came out and decided it wouldn't work or what? I'd love to turbo my car one day, but looks like if it ever came to that it'd have to be a DIY kit that could end up getting very expensive! It just surprises me that there are hardly any turbo duratecs out there....
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#537042 - 29/04/14 02:56 PM Re: Forced Induction [Re: Acton]
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There are quite a few turbos that iv seen now, dont think that overly rare. There is a lad that has stuck a 2.0ltr ecoboost into a mk7 fez zs so that might be a more reliable engine.
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#537046 - 29/04/14 04:01 PM Re: Forced Induction [Re: Acton]
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It's not there rare people havnt really tried it and pushed it so nobody knows the limits where as supercharger has been pushed and pushed

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#537052 - 29/04/14 04:21 PM Re: Forced Induction [Re: Acton]
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Very true, i seen dyno result and the turbod cars have around the same power supercharged ones but have a load more toqrue. Not too sure how much work has gone into them internally compared to the sc cars tho
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#537101 - 29/04/14 11:31 PM Re: Forced Induction [Re: Acton]
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Jamsport were doing turbo kits but only know of 3 and one was stripped and sold for parts after 6 weeks

Other than that its peoples own home builds, superchagrgers were just a kit that lots if people got from js
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#537164 - 30/04/14 12:43 PM Re: Forced Induction [Re: Acton]
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Originally Posted By: Acton
This post is more out of my own curiosity than anything else, but why are there so many supercharger options for the fiesta and seemingly none "off the shelf" turbo kits? I mean surely the turbo route is easier given the room at the back of the engine where the exhaust is compared to the front where the intake is?

Did people try the turbo route when the st first came out and decided it wouldn't work or what? I'd love to turbo my car one day, but looks like if it ever came to that it'd have to be a DIY kit that could end up getting very expensive! It just surprises me that there are hardly any turbo duratecs out there....


SC surely must be easier as it has no connection to the exhaust manifold, just an SC, drive belts and piping to the throttle body.
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#537485 - 02/05/14 03:01 PM Re: Forced Induction [Re: Acton]
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It's a hell of a job to fit a turbo
Especially on the ST as the exhaust manifold is on the back of the engine
So the exhaust manifold would need to be rerouted to the turbo, near the front of the engine where the air is going in

Whereas a supercharger your just adding an extra pulley to the belt essentially
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