Remote mount Turbo

[The_Hawk]

I was shown this tonight, some very interesting looking little toys:

http://www.ststurbo.com/the_technology

Wonder if you could get one hooked up to a Golf without too much trouble?

[Jarred]

saw a vento on vortex with a rear/remote mount turbo, was basically in the spare tyre well i think, pretty cool/different

[jasn78]

my question is what would the lag be like? being that far to send the compressed air must have some affect?

[Jarred]

my question is what would the lag be like? being that far to send the compressed air must have some affect?

generally, air weighs nothing in a vaccum, hence it can move quite quick, regardlesss (in this case) of the distance.

[SoVeReIgN]

For cars that don't have the space under the bonnet. Lots of V8s getting around with them from what i've read.

[rayray086]

saw a vento on vortex with a rear/remote mount turbo, was basically in the spare tyre well i think, pretty cool/different

Yep! I think Yarrow Thorne was the one behind it.

Edit: Yep, anth covered it in his buildthreads blog too! http://buildthreads.wordpress.com/20...o-mkiii-jetta/

[peedman]

Not a fan for me. Too much more stuff to sort out doing it remote and for what gain? There is space in the hood for a turbo in a vr6 esp since kinetic sell a turbo kit. A turbo manifold isnt that expensive anyway and a bunch of places like 034motorsport, kinetic, atpturbo, spa all sell vr6 manifolds.

A remote kit just makes things more complicated...my 2c