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Originally Posted by KC native
Won't that drive air temps up and kill a lot of performance? (not an expert on turbo location, I just know how they work and like them bcuz MOAR BOOST!)
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Good thinking. We have a solution for that. We received the car with the Turbo's and motor already placed, and that was our first concern. I did some research on melting points for the Nylon carpet etc and we came to the conclusion that this will in fact be a massive problem. Air Flow to the Turbo's won't be an issue, Heat generated by the turbos would be.
We were able to actually mount the turbo's further away from the Trans compared to how we received it. This caused a problem with air flow, as now the Turbos were too close to the frame rails. The solution to that was to....this might sound weird and it's hard to explain w/o pictures.....the solution was to redesign the Frame rail and essentially turn the frame rail into a boxed air Plenum.
It sounds funky, but when you see it, it's really freaking neat.