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can someone please point me in the direction of someone that has turbo'd there 3.0L GenIV

nick

demobboss has a twin turbo one, and i think one or two guys are building them too but not too sure if there a gen 4

i have read about a few 3.0l's that have had a turbo setup on them and put in imprezas

search is your friend my friend...

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11312

theres been a bit of discussion on it, makes for some interesting reading.
youll need deep pockets if you progress any further apart from tyre-kicking
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10186 - just one example

demobboss - http://www.pulseracing.com.au/TwinTurboH6Liberty.htm + i think theres a build thread, or at least one with more details on here somewhere

IMO its not worth it - some reasons off the top of my head
-resale will be shot to pieces
-uncertain reliability as its not been widely done
-for the money you would probably end up spending on turbo-ing the 3.0, youd be better off swapping the car for a similarly-priced 2.5 turbo + drop what you were going to spend on the 3.0 on the 2.5 instead.

another possibility is supercharging the 3.0 which has appeared on the forums fairly recently - just search for "raptor supercharger" on here and do some reading

hope this has been helpful and doesnt start any major arguments ....

All of the above stated reasons for not doing it are quite valid. Def forget resale value. If you are gonna do this to your car make sure you don't go in with that false hope. This unfortunately rings true for any heavily mechanically modified car. I bought mine 2nd hand for relatively good money in 2008, but never expected to sell and still don't intend to. Expense is another reason however, Pulse keep threatening to release a TT kit which should be significantly cheaper than the currently quoted 20K price tag. Expect that sometime at the end of this year if not sooner. As for reliability - if you gonna do this yourself then may god help you but he might not be much help either. On the other hand, with the Pulse Racing setup (6+months of R&D and testing) relibility is pretty damn good and there's really no denying that, mine has done now just over 36,000Kms post TT kit and still a flawless daily driver with stock internals, which speaks for itself. And now you can in fact buy forged internals for this engine off the shelf, that plus a closed deck and you're talking about a fairly strong engine. Ya gotta be mentally unbalanced to be worried about reliability if you do all that...
Anyway I'll continue to push Pulse Racing to get that TT kit sorted, i n the meantime make sure you check out my Youtube channel, here are a couple of my vids that may help to make your mind up either way
http://www.youtube.com/user/DeMobBoss?f ... kKucEGay3c
http://www.youtube.com/user/DeMobBoss?f ... Wvcj7W6054
And the infamaous but truly glorious Oran park track day from back during the R&D time:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DeMobBoss?f ... M8ommGj5KY
Good luck with whatever you decide PM me if your need any advice and I shall try to get back to you in a timely manner.
Cheers.

bates91 wrote:search is your friend my friend...

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11312

theres been a bit of discussion on it, makes for some interesting reading.
youll need deep pockets if you progress any further apart from tyre-kicking
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10186 - just one example

demobboss - http://www.pulseracing.com.au/TwinTurboH6Liberty.htm + i think theres a build thread, or at least one with more details on here somewhere

IMO its not worth it - some reasons off the top of my head
-resale will be shot to pieces
-uncertain reliability as its not been widely done
-for the money you would probably end up spending on turbo-ing the 3.0, youd be better off swapping the car for a similarly-priced 2.5 turbo + drop what you were going to spend on the 3.0 on the 2.5 instead.

another possibility is supercharging the 3.0 which has appeared on the forums fairly recently - just search for "raptor supercharger" on here and do some reading

hope this has been helpful and doesnt start any major arguments ....

Cheers mate yeah im just curious thanks for the info though

Very high quality responses, this forum will advance knowledge a lot on these engines and options for them