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Originally Posted by razor02097
Not trying to discourage but just finding and buying a turbo is fitting the key in pandora's box. Once you start cutting and fitting you will have opened the box. Equipping a vehicle with a turbo the correct way to make it safe and reliable is a very expensive and time consuming endeavor.
Even running low boost not all OEM ECU will be able to compensate. It will depend on the engine and the capabilities of the ECU. Either way you will need at least a wideband, data logging software and software to retrieve, modify and upload tunes. You could invest in an aftermarket ECU like FAST or megasquirt which would make it easier to tune but you would have that additional cost.
I am not trying to beat you down... I have researched heavily in putting a turbo on my 4L Jeep engine.... I found out that there are a lot of hidden costs and problems that would have to be solved. After I added up the costs for the estimate...it was north of the $5,000 mark. For that kind of money I could do a 4bt engine swap and have more power and economy than a turbo 4L.
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No worries, I have turbo charged many vehicles before, some ghetto style, pandora's box has put a hurting on me many times. This is a mass airflow engine that will compensate for some but not much increased airflow, and its without a map sensor that would freak the PCM out when it see's boost. I only plan on running around 5 Psi at first without management. I see the honda guys do it all the time, while beating the crap out of it every day. This van is not beat-on at all so there will be very few and far WOT situations.
I really want to get into Megasquirt, the price, function and support are amazing, I have been digging into the black magic of tuning lately, it is really helping me with my diagnostic skills as a technician. I also might be able to use it to lean burn cruise like that crazy turbo civic that I have been reading about, and control the water injection and so on, I would be playing with that thing for months when I finally get one lol.
Speaking of Jeeps and turbos, my bro has a TJ with a 2.5L 4 banger that we were about to turbo before a valve dropped and married a piston. I did alot of research on that and read over and over again that guys were getting increased mileage from the turbo. None of the jeep guys seemed to care, actually received a lot of nay-say but I ended up just putting a camaro 3.4l V6 in it. I didnt receive any help from them but here's the thread if your interested in reading about it:
2.5l to gm 3.4l swap advice - Jeep Wrangler Forum