A friend of my is contemplating buying a rebuilt Schweitzer Turbo Kit for his 93 7.3l. I am a bit suspicious as they are only asking $US 650.

Has anybody had any experience with the Schweitzer Turbo. Any problems?


Seb.....

 

What was it for originally?

 

Good question Dave,

It sounds like it was custom made but the guy after 10 years never installed it and is now trying to sell the kit.

I was just wondering if anybody was running a Schweitzer turbo on their rigs and see what their experience might have been.

Seb...

 

Seb, nothing to do with this post, but are you comming down to Everet on Jan 20th...I think it a be a lot of fun, besides we need some one with good common sense to be there!

 

Is it supposed to have everything to hook it up to an IDI?

A turbo without all the plumbing would be almost worthless.

There are several pieces on my ATS system that I would not want to try and fabricate given the amount of room available between the engine block and the firewall.

I will also say that the 2" body lift I installed gave me 3 times as much room as a stock truck has.

 

Dave,

It is definetely a full kit with manifolds, cross-over pipe and downpipe. It was custom designed over ten years ago but never installed. Given all the trouble you could run into it probably would be best to stay away. $650 could easily end up costing a lot more if things don't fit or the turbo won't work properly.

BC6.9,

I am tempted except we are currently in the middle of an unplanned FCC unit shutdown and at the same time are trying to plan all the work for our Spring Refinery Shutdown starting Feb. 4th, 2006. I will most likely be working weekends in Jan/Feb. Gotta make sure that Diesel keeps flowing. Currently with the FCC down we are only producing about 40% of our rated refinery diesel capacity. That's about a million liters of diesel a day short. The boss ain't happy about that.


Seb....