| Turbo performance and technology has evolved over | | | | would be used you should determine if you need to |
| time making the problems of unreliable, poor drivability | | | | replace something in your block. If it were for standard |
| and turbo lag a thing of the past. Properly changing | | | | road use the boost would be just fine. However, if it is |
| your car with good parts selection and engine system | | | | for track use then that would be different and you |
| would lead to a high performance street car or track | | | | would want to install a steel shim gasket. When it |
| car. It is not always recommended that just about | | | | comes to fuel management, it is important that the car |
| anyone or everyone changes his or her car. There are | | | | is fuel injected already before turbo charging it. Then, |
| some cars that are not meant to be converted into a | | | | forged pistons are ideal for a turbocharged car, which |
| turbo car and would perform better as a non-turbo | | | | could be very expensive. The alternative to this is to |
| car. Some cars that do not make good conversion | | | | use a factory turbo charged equivalent piston if there |
| projects are non-turbo cars but have a turbo version | | | | is an available one. |
| readily available from their manufacturer. Prime | | | | A turbo charged car is certainly a good project to |
| examples are Nissan 300ZX, Mitsubishi 3000 GT and | | | | undertake and it would surely deliver. The turbo |
| the Eclipse. These cars are better off staying | | | | performance of a turbo performance car is greater |
| non-turbo and if you want these converted to a turbo | | | | than a non-turbo charged car but there are some |
| version, its much simpler to purchase the readily | | | | things to consider first before undertaking such a task. |
| available turbo version rather than trying to convert a | | | | First if your car is a good conversion project, then the |
| non-turbo model into a turbo model. | | | | cost of turbo charging is very high. Parts and labour do |
| With that aside, there are a lot of things to remember | | | | not come cheap especially in this kind of project. Then |
| and to work on when converting a non-turbo car to a | | | | there is the problem of having all the parts readily |
| turbo car. Let us take this part-by-part. First off of | | | | available or affordable to properly convert the car; |
| course is the engine. The engine would take a lot of | | | | remember that not all engines and cars have the |
| heat and pressure once turbocharged, so it is best to | | | | same conversion process. Depending on the type of |
| make sure to adjust the compression level that is | | | | car you may need to have certain parts custom |
| manageable by the engine otherwise engine wear will | | | | made. |
| increase significantly. Depending on where the car | | | | |