Anyone know where to get a PT Cruiser turbo converter?

[zin]

Well.. if they are indeed built stronger, which makes some sense give the harsher environment they expect them to live in, a converter shop should be able to mix and match some parts to get a "factory" higher stall converter...

Mike

[turbovanman²]

Well.. if they are indeed built stronger, which makes some sense give the harsher environment they expect them to live in, a converter shop should be able to mix and match some parts to get a "factory" higher stall converter...

Mike

That's what I am thinking, going to chat with TCS next week.

[Rampage16V]

I had pat's converters make me up a converter for my rampage. Using mis matched converter pieces. Works great and was cheap too. Let me know if you want the number. 610 237 6900 ask for steve

[turbovanman²]

I had pat's converters make me up a converter for my rampage. Using mis matched converter pieces. Works great and was cheap too. Let me know if you want the number. 610 237 6900 ask for steve

Thanks, I might do that, but TCS likes helping me out, so we'll see after race season is over, IE next week, I know without the cams, this converter is just too loose now,

[turbovanman²]

I had pat's converters make me up a converter for my rampage. Using mis matched converter pieces. Works great and was cheap too. Let me know if you want the number. 610 237 6900 ask for steve

Got that number handy? Tired of burning up expensive converters, on a tiny budget, otherwise van won't be out this year.

[turbovanman²]

so is the 2.5 mitz 41TE( used in a turbo application....rampage was 3800)

How much boost did it take to flash up to 3800?

Looking for a reasonable alternative.

[A.J.]

How much boost did it take to flash up to 3800?

Looking for a reasonable alternative.

Hey Simon, are you looking for a LU or non-LU? I ordered the 10" converter for my 2.5 wagon. If you have time you might want to wait until I get this adapted and running if you're going LU to prevent what happened to your 9" Hughes converter. My 10" Suncoast converter with 3500 stall ran me about $350. Cheaper and BETTER than Hughes.

[turbovanman²]

I am looking for a non LU. Its not my daily driver anymore so I don't care about highway revs. Chris is contacting Hugh's to see if they can rework my LU unit, if not, I'll just buy a stocker, just has to last the season, going 5 speed for next year. Just want to get the van out this summer. You have a non LU you want to get rid of?

[A.J.]

I am looking for a non LU. Its not my daily driver anymore so I don't care about highway revs. Chris is contacting Hugh's to see if they can rework my LU unit, if not, I'll just buy a stocker, just has to last the season, going 5 speed for next year. Just want to get the van out this summer. You have a non LU you want to get rid of?

I just recycled all my old non-LU because they were taking up space and I needed to down size. They were all out of cars so the stall would have been 3000-3300.

[turbovanman²]

Gotcha, thanks anyhow. Get your tune figured out yet?

[A.J.]

Gotcha, thanks anyhow. Get your tune figured out yet?

I think so. Going to the track tomorrow so I'll find out.

[turbovanman²]

So, what did you find?

[black86glhs]

Hey Simon, did you ever think to look in a PT turbo for that torque converter?

[turbovanman²]

Hey Simon, did you ever think to look in a PT turbo for that torque converter?

I did, found them but they are a low stall converter,

[black86glhs]

My job is done! Lol

[Ondonti]

I did, found them but they are a low stall converter,

Sounds perfect. What RPM?

[turbovanman²]

Thanks Bryan, go have some Pizza.

Brent, for a daily driver I agree. When I ran the Neon converter, it was awesome around town, gobs of off idle power, midrange was great, best MPG I ever got BUT could not spool my turbo brake standing. If I wasn't racing, that would be the TC of choice.

Oh, I got the Neon to flash up around 3200 ish, which just wouldn't let me spool the turbo at the line.

[zin]

I haven't looked into it that much, but I've had some customers buy solenoids to dump fluid from the converter circuit so they could build boost... Now, keep in mind these are heavy-hitter Pro-Mod type set-ups, so maybe it's only going to work on a race built trans, but the thought occurs to me that if this mod would make the converter flash higher, it might let a "low stall" (higher efficiency) converter spool a turbo until the trans-break was released.

Maybe someone more familiar with the inner workings of our slush-boxes can provide some in-sight?...

Mike

[Vigo]

PT Turbo converter is a different p/n than a 1992 2.5L T1 converter.

They got rid of the one offset converter lug after like 98. I wouldn't be surprised if that was basically the only difference.

I ran a stock neon converter in a 3.0 van once and it stalled around 3k. Stock non-lu turbo converter in my srt4 van stalls above 4k when brake boosting. I hate it.