2.2 carbureted turbo project

[themockunit]

First off, i don't have alot of money but love HP's. I have a Plymouth Sundance Base 2.2 carbureted and i want to turbo it to make it a little faster and get better MPG's. Has anybody taken the turbo parts off of a new yorker or shadow ect. turbo and put it on anything carbureted before. I was thinking about just bolting everything on and drilling out the jets in the carb to richin it up. Please let me know if this has been attempted and or done and lasted.

[turismolover22]

Imo, the carb can be made turbo, but this ends up killing any gas savings. You have to tune the carb to run the correct fuel mix at wot (full boost). The problem is that fuel delivery on a carb is relativelt linear. Fuel delivery on a fuel injected car can be modified infinitely based on your calibration skills (to a degree). There was a dc supercharger kit that was a bolt on mod you could buy (8-1000 bucks now) but the most people saw power wise was around 140 hp. Which is the same power levels as a stock T1 log car, found in the first gen turbo cars.To keep mpg up and have more pep, i would suggest a mild TI or TII setup. It would require some work, but with a stock boost level, I know most still get anywhere from 25-35 mpg on these setups.Good luck!

[ATaylorRacing]

One of my sponsors and I was thinking of doing this to Matchbox too....using a small turbo, maybe 5 psi of boost...or more depending on the egts I get, suck through set up with the Weber version of our mechanical linkage carb. I have an old Direct Connection jetting kit, but much larger secondary jets are found in the carbs that were on the old 1.7 VW powered cars!

[GLHS60]

Are you sure your Sundance has a carb, I think they all were fuel injected, TBI. You will be ahead much $$$ and time buying a turbo car to start with.

Thanks
Randy

[Fox]

yea, never heard of a carbed sundance by then they where all tbi, if you can fine the same year turbo shadow of sundance in the junkyard that would be your best bet to convert yours , youll need the engine harness out of it and all the sensors and computer, this will plug right into ypur existing dash harness and then all you need is the turbo engine and fuel pump

[83scamp]

Are you sure your Sundance has a carb, I think they all were fuel injected, TBI. You will be ahead much $$$ and time buying a turbo car to start with.

Thanks
Randy

Thanks
Randy

+1, the P-body never came with a carb. By 87, the only carbs were on L-body's and first year Dakota's with the 2.2. Even those were gone in 88.

[themockunit]

I know it hard to believe but my car is carbureted, i was also surprised. But you saying that it not worth my money to turbo the carbureted motor but to just get a turbo motor any do a swap.

[GLHS60]

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I've done a few turbo swaps and it's not worth the work unless you are building something like a Rampage that never had a turbo engine available. Not bashing your idea as it is certainly doable but you will need so many parts and so much time you might as well buy a donor vehicle to get all the things needed. Next and best step is to buy an Omni, Shadow, Daytona, Spirit, Minivan etc. that is already turbocharged. I think there is a guy on here "MILKCARTON"?? from Colorado Springs who probably knows of something for sale. I think he even has a Turbo Shadow/Sundance.

Good Luck.

Thanks
Randy

[turbovanman²]

Gotta agree, its a lot of work and tuning will be tough. Drilling jets isn't a good idea as going from lean to pig rich can be as a little as a few 1000th drilled out of the jet.