Hello all.
Has any body tried a remote turbo system?
http://www.ststurbo.com/home
If this kind of setup works as good as the STS claims, I wounder why more people dont use it.

 

looks like you'd better be a certified plumber to run one :S

 

They (STS) are fairly new to the scene and most people don't understand the operations of a turbocharger. It is far and away the best way to go. Finding a good tubing plumber really won't be so hard. It is dialing it in that will cost you some bucks.

I hope to get a system soon for my V10.

 

cars like vettes are useing them quite often because of lack of underhood room to do twin turbos so they mount them under the car or at the exhaust of the car

 

I do think it would be easy to add a remote turbo in place of the muffler and I dont think it would be to hard to get a exhaust shop to run tubing for the intake. I was wondering about boost lag. In this mo. hot rod mag., their are 3 or 4 cars with remote turbo systems. You dont see any, then you do. My truck is 2 wheel drive (sport truck type) and wont be doing any 4x4. You can buy turbos on e-bay cheep. Should you try 1 large or 2 small. I dont drive my truck fast on top end, but i do like to get to 60 or 70 quick. Most of the superchargers systems are $4000. plus. I thinking a person could build a remote turbo system for a lot less. Any ideals about cost and how good it would work? 1 or 2 turbos?

 

i would go with 2 small so you do NOT have the lag 1 large one would have! the only thing is getting oil lines back to them

 

do you think it would be possible to run one with a 4wd setup that actually gets used off-road. nothing extreme, but it is used. and the site that you posted sandbar, doesnt have any applications for f-150

 

I'd like to know what happens when you hit a nice puddle of water on a 35* day and it soaks the turbo and plumbing with 35* water.

It is tempting to let them use mine for development but I don't know how a 200K+ mile 5.4L would like a turbo hooked up to it. Plus the $500 would just about get eaten up in gas money getting there and back.

 

haha yea. i dont think it would hurt as to the water part. the colder the piping the lower the air charge temp and the more power it produces. and the oil/turbo should be warm even if hit with ice cold water due to it being ran off the exhaust and oil coming from the hot engine. personally i think it would be ok.

 

agreed you should be fine

 

I have to disagree that placing a turbo that far from the engine in a place that it was not designed to go is not far and away the best way to go. There is plenty of room under hood to put two turbos or a large single turbo for these trucks.

 

agreed. i would prefer less tubing anyday of the week.....

 

yes for the best absolute results under the hood is the best with a hefty price tag.... a remote turbo is much more simple and less expensive... plus you dont need to run an intercooler due to the tubing(price save) and you dont need new manifolds(less money) and you dont need to spend hours installing and mounting the turbos which can be very frusterating under the hood...

This is for a performance upgrade for somebody who dosnt want to spend the big bucks...its not meant to replace a normal turbo set up... but for a guy that wants more ooommph pulling his boat or what ever.. its going to help alot... and i hear theres almost no turbo lag..

 

well the newest twin set ups are under the vehicle out of the engine bay so that you 1) have less heat in a very criticle area. 2)have the same exhaust pressure. 3)cheaper to build. 4) do NOT need an intercooler (could stil use one but not nessicary).

 

This is wierd. This morning my stepson comes in and asks me about these. I had never heard of them before till he asked. He had his eye on a turbo in the shop but it was on a M11 Cummins and was pretty disappointed when I explained to him it was way too big for anything he could do with it.