Remote turbo and the 300. And a question

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Remote turbos. Yes , I have heard, the drawback is the ooled exhaust gases, reduce efficiency.
On a f350, pickup the remote is ideal.
Here is a question for you.
The cooled gases are a non issue at boost levels a pickup would see, assume 10 psi.
But, if a cat converter,were plumbed directly to the turbo, the converter effectively heard the gases again....
Is this logical thinking?
I would lose twin scroll, but gases would be hot like...
 
As you said, the cooled gases will still be able to drive the turbo to 10psi and beyond.
It simply means that the waste gate will not have to dump as much to regulate boost levels.

What is affected is turbo response which you won't care about for truck use.
The longer distance with the extra plumbing does lose some heat but the main issue is the extra volume on both the intake and exhaust side of the turbo system which causes a delayed response.
Again if you have to wait an extra second for boost in a F350 you may not care.

The other issue is having a reliable pump to return the oil from the turbo to the engine oil pan.

On the plus side, it sure makes plumbing the exhaust to the turbo easier and the long run forward from the turbo compressor side starts the intercooler process early.
 
Im sure you could find space for a clean install once you behind the bell housing. Do you have a location in mind? Maybe thats where including the cat converter becomes involved.

Another option that ive heard about but have no experience with

www.compturbotechnology.com

This might help in the oil department.
Wouldnt mind seeing how an oil less turbo holds up to long term use.
 
Sick six has the oil thing elegantly resolved.
Pressure side to turbo, a oriface reducer, scavange tank of a pint size, then forward to the decommissioned fuel pump on the block with the output pipe plumbed back into pump body to go to crank case.
His build is on here somewhere.

Turbo on this trk would be behind cab, passenger side, air intake from a cabover hino or isuzu with the filter under frame.
I would likely use twin scroll, with EFI Manifolds.
Ceranic coated and wrapped.
Then an exhaust stack up the backside of the cab with spiral fluting as muffler.
Truck is a flatbed. Regular cab, that looks like it's been through a war.
Zf5, 205 t case etc.
 
There is an interesting multiple-part series on Youtube in which a guy named Tom puts a remote-turbo LS engine in a late model Toyota truck.

If interested, look up "Tom's Turbo Garage V8 Turbo Tacoma".
 
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