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Old 01-02-11, 06:09 PM   #1
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Looking into Turboing a KV6

Some of you may have seen that Im looking into turboing a KV6 and I have been doing a fair bit of homework on the idea.
Its looking like I would be running a T25 or poss a T28 at 4-5psi with double decomp plates which would hopefully give me between 230-240bhp whilst keeping the standard internals.
I would keep the normal injectors but run a uprated fuel pressure reg and I'm hoping the standard fuel pump would cope.. I'm assuming they didn't change the pump for the supercharged version?
It would have a fmic in the space between the bumper and I would run the piping the same way as the t16's with fmic so I keep the engine bay as free from extra bits as poss, battery would go to the boot so I could lose that to.
Biggest issue's are finding somewhere to put the turbo and what to do about the inlet manifold... and I think I might have found a solution to the exhaust and turbo fitting.
A few yank companys do a turbo exhaust kit for the honda accord which has the same manifold bolt arrangement as the kv6 so im getting the full specs sent over and with it branching off right out of the front bank it might fit and save a hell of alot of hassle and expense.
The inlet manifold is going to be a issue because if I gutt a knackered normal manifold I will still have to blank off the vis and some other parts and I'm not sure if it will be good enough to take the extra pressure.
Is there another rover v6 manifold or is the metal one off the old rover v6 the only one?
I will have to get a custom ecu as well.. I have always been pointed towards emerald do you guys use one thats poss better suited??

Im on the hunt for a cheap 180 at the min so im not going to start a project thread till I have one, this thread is mainly about hearing your thoughts and ideas etc on the idea...
cheers guys
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