Does anyone have the link of the homemade turbo kit with all the different sections circled in what looks like paint? They had all the Part Numbers for Charge pipe that you needed from Summit.

 

http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~yele....html

 

Hmm. Notice how he says he can make a $500 custom turbo kit, yet if you add up the cost of all the parts he lists, it's well over a grand?

And not even counting the expensive little nuts and bolts. For the Kia, I had to buy 10M-1.25 12-point nuts from ARP, that cost $4 a piece.

I built almost everything in my system myself, didn't have to buy a wastegate and am not currently running an intercooler, and it was still $1200 adding up everything.

 

you turboed a KIA?

 

Don't laugh too hard. As far as I know, I have the only turbo Kia in America. I really did it because I've never built a turbo system before, and wanted to see if I could.

The road was rocky.... The way that I found this website was because I took my car into a dealer, with my first attempt at a turbo manifold, and was made fun of.

But that gave me encouragement to revamp the design, and it took me about three months for fabricate everything that I have now.



I made boost for about two days before the crappy Stone Racing turbo blew. Now I'm getting a new Garrett cartridge to go again. Also installing a TMIC, from a Saab. Not as good as a FMIC, I know, but I'm only shooting for 5 PSI and 140 whp.

BTW, the Kia engine is basically all Mazda.


Sorry about hijacking the post.

 

cool man.
setup looks really good as it is.

you should be able to pull more than 5psi easily, go for 8

 

Eh, maybe if I can tune it right. I'm running a 034 Supplementary ECU with a pair of Bosch 30# injectors for the additional fuel. The Rio is OBD-II. (The injectors are plumbed into the intake manifold, each aimed at the point where runners of adjacent cylinders split off from the plenum)

The 034 ECU adds fuel based on MAP and RPM signals. I programmed it now to run rich, so the stock ECU can take fuel out of the Rio's stock 17 pound injectors to make the mixture right.

Seems to work, for now. Even with the 034 ECU turned off the car didn't go lean, until I hit 3 PSI and ran the injectors past their safe duty cycle. Have to love German engineering. (Kia uses Bosch ECUs)

 

I may turbo my 93 Protege some day, but since It's OBD-1 itll be easier.