so around my area, there are a lot of import race shops, and one of my friends is one of the "show drivers" for one of the shops (as in he brings his car to shows and tracks and tells people that he gets his work done at some shop) and asked the mechanics if they would be able to mod a turbo charger that was originally for another car to fit on my mustang. they said that it was probably very possible, and that i could get the turbo charger for like 500 bucks (true price is like around 4k or something, i dont know the brand because i havent looked into it much, today is the first time that i am seriously taking it into account) and free labor. this sounds like a good deal to me, i mean, you cant beat that price, plus there are no turbos out for the v6 yet (import shops are amazed at the 4.0l v6, that is probably why they want to work on my car lol)

anyways, my question would be, is this actually possible to do without messing up my car really badly?

thanks, chris

 

Chris

I have looked into this just for kicks I have always had N/A built engines in the past never SC or TC but have since done a little research on this topic looks like you can TC just about any 4 stroke engine. There will be a V6 Turbocharger out about Feb for the Mustang V6 its being tested right now maxed out for performance the V6 is running pulling the front wheel running 11.80’s on a stock bottom end and stock trans.

So in answer to your question (less boost) TCer than the above one should not be a problem for V6. But a Ford tech has also stated that the Mustang V6 being an old Explorer engine and a rehash from the older V6 engines is not the very good designed engine internally to go super Hi performance. He recommend going to a Turbocharger over a Supercharger for bottom end durability because of the design engine internally and to keep the RPM's below 5300.

If you can Turbocharger for that kind of money and they know what they are doing and can set it up right Dyno/ tune I would jump on it in a second.
IMO if I ever I decided to do any performance that’s the only way do it straight to TC or SC for real power I would not mess around with N/A mods alsoI would not rule out SC but would diff think about going TC first.

 

Dude if you can get your mustang turboed for 500 dollars total, you shouldn't be wasting time asking us if it's a good idea. GO GET IT DONE MAN!!!

It would probably cost a ****load to have it done and have to pay for it all, so my advice is jump all over this. You could have them keep it detuned a little for day to day operations....or install a digital control or something.

You got the deal of a lifetime coming!

 

lol i live in the outskirts of the seattle area, there are so many TCed cars around here...all import, but its cool
most of them are sponsored by shops, so there is a lot of free stuff roaming around here (as long as you have the right car and connections)

the only toruble is that no demestic shop would even consider throwing a sponsorship at a mustang, there are way too many corvettes and vipers around here (microsoft's falt)

 

so is that a yes?

 

i will go for it, im not really sure about the details yet tho
i still need to go there, let them check out my car (which is stock lol) then let them do what they have to do...i am still not sure what that is yet

it really depends on how much it will cost to get it done, i know for my buddy's celica they charged him ~600 for a stage 3 turbo system
i will not do it if it costs me more than 1k (the 500 was just estimated by my friend, no numbers calculated at all)

the only big problem that i have with getting this done is that my pony will have to wear their decal..which is kind of rediculous on a mustang, it includes:
their autoshop's name on the upper area of my rear window ...this goes across the entire window
2 japanese characters on each back seat window (i dont know what those windows are called, i just realized that) ...this is 5inx2in
their logo (no too bad) on the underside of my hood ...this is about a square foot

i would also have to go to the import auto shows (obviously not all import cars, lol, there are a few bmw's and stangs) and to tracks about once every two months

 

hmm....decals...... i smell rice cookin all of a sudden.

But it would still be cool to have a turboed mustang, it would be a mobile slaughterhouse of imports

 

Just for curiosity I did some reaearch on the 4.0 L V6 in the 05+ Mustangs. (It's the same engine the goes into the Ranger) While it's a very good engine and will work very well with a turbo. Just be carefull with the boost.
First of all this engine has quite a lot more compression than alot of turbo or super charged engines to which means cumbustion chamber pressures are going to be that much higher with any given amount of boost. The 4.0 L V6 has unusually large holes on the deck surface for cooling and also has widely spaced head bolts. This means that this engine's head gaskets may be prone to failure under high boost conditions. The lesser deck surface lost to the large cooling holes in the heads and block and the head bolts beiong spaced further apart make this engine vulnerable to head gasket failure.
I'd say give it a try but don't get to crazy with the boost.

 

Here is a picture of the Mustang V6 with that turbo charger thats due out in Febuary that runs in the 11.80's stock bottom end and stcok trans.












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I missed this post above, chrisc if go though with this and if your there while they doing it take pictures and also if you get the dyno info data and post back would nice to see.

Hope you do it that woud be pretty cool you would be one of the very very few running a turbo.