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940 Turbo Upgrade Help Needed 900 1994

posted by  tvpierce on  Thu Apr 29 04:15 CST 2004
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As Brian mentioned; those aren't the HP figures you're going to get from YOUR car. Those are the max HP numbers that particular turbo can produce.

For starters, your car is putting out about 165 HP (assuming it's stock). If the only mod you made was the turbo, you would get no increase at all -- in fact, it would feel slightly slower because you would get a slower spool-up time. A "hopped up" turbo may be capable of making 100 lbs of pressure, but your wastegate is just gonna limit it to the factory setting (unless you modify it).

Your current turbo is capable of making way more boost than your engine is currently getting -- it's just being limited by your wastegate.

The manual boost control and guage that Brian mentioned can get you close to 200 HP for very little money. But make no mistake about it; you are asking the engine to work much harder -- and that comes at a cost.

Jeff Pierce
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'93 945 Turbo ( one kickass family car ! ), '92 Mercedes 190E (my daily driver), '53 Willys-Overland Pickup (my snow-plow truck/conversation piece -- sold to a loving home), '85 Jeep CJ-7 w/ Fisher plow






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