help with fitting a turbo on a sj413

farmerben · Post by **farmerben** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:45 pm

hi,
i was thinking of fitting a turbo on my 1990 sj413 but wondered how much boost the engine would take ,and where to take the turbo oil feed from and where to put the oil return ????
many thanks,ben

Edweird · Post by **Edweird** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:02 pm

I don't know much myself, but this popped up on my yotube recommended today and I remembered your thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEAvEPgu ... grec_index

He might be worth talking to, if you can message him through youtube. According to his video, he's using 25psi boost.

Post by **ScottieJ** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:55 pm

That engine must've had some serious work done to the internals then as a stock sj lump's limit would more than likely be around 6-8psi. anything more and I doubt the bottom end would last long. I would imagine the Sammy in the vid was running a modded swift gti lump.

I personally think if you want to off-road your Sammy then you'd be better off fitting a 1.6 vit lump or fitting a supercharger as you want torque not high rev bhp.

If you are serious about turboing it then your best bet would be to look on teamswift.net as not many sj owners bother turboing them.

Henry · Post by **Henry** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:02 pm

Mate of mine fitted a 306 turbo to his 1.3 (engine was on its way out)

It went well, but just sped up the process of dying... from about 6 weeks to 6 days

Long story short, its not worth it, fit a tdi lump in it instead

farmerben · Post by **farmerben** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:35 pm

thanks for the help people !

farmerben · Post by **farmerben** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:20 pm

ive borght a garrett t15 turbo and have started making a manifold ! does anyone know the size of the oil pressure switch thread as i need toget a t-peice ? is it 1/8npt?

twiss · Post by **twiss** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:59 am

think so yeah...

farmerben · Post by **farmerben** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:45 pm

hi this is how far i am at the moment i was just wondering would it be ok to run the oil drain from the turbo into the rocker cover???

farmerben · Post by **farmerben** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:33 pm

hi people i had it running the other day just got to sort out the air filter and exhaust and will most probably need some fine tuning but,here is a link to see/hear it running as it is at the moment let me know what you think

Click Here for Youtube Video