infomotive New Member 13 Member For: 10y 7m 22d Posted 29/06/15 04:37 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 04:37 AM Hi. Has anyone successfully used a FG turbo engine and factory ecu in a conversion?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 2m 23d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 29/06/15 05:37 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 05:37 AM If they have I'd love to see a video! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 11y 2m 27d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 29/06/15 06:21 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 06:21 AM (edited) Not that I'm aware of, 2 main issues I can see, intercooling will be a pita, water to air might work or better still methanol. The other is turbos in boats in general(with exception to Diesel's). Your going to be holding the thing at high rpm for long periods of time relative to a car, which means dealing with a white hot exhaust manifold and turbine. These problems can obviously be overcomehttps://youtu.be/6ht1hFo0Vk0Also using the factory pcm will be a pain.Pretty extreme case of glowing exhaust but you get the ideahttps://youtu.be/c2eWHNSaSZU Edited 29/06/15 06:27 AM by barnz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko16 Donating Members 1,672 Member For: 17y 2m 26d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 29/06/15 06:55 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 06:55 AM This would be awesome! Cooling would be easy as you have endless supply of cold water flowing underneath, just run it through a heat exchanger E85 or methanol would be the best fuel choiceBut I would think once you do that your going to be in the Open class and against some big ass blown v8 boats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 4m 24d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 29/06/15 07:02 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 07:02 AM I've been chatting OP on the HPT forum. I'm hoping to be able to help him out. Engine is already installed and running in the boat. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko16 Donating Members 1,672 Member For: 17y 2m 26d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 29/06/15 07:25 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 07:25 AM That is awesome, can't wait to hear when it's finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 11y 2m 27d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 29/06/15 07:56 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 07:56 AM I've been chatting OP on the HPT forum. I'm hoping to be able to help him out. Engine is already installed and running in the boat.Thread needs moar pics and info then.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 8m 16d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 29/06/15 07:56 AM Share Posted 29/06/15 07:56 AM No piks and only 18% throttle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infomotive New Member 13 Member For: 10y 7m 22d Posted 29/06/15 08:59 AM Author Share Posted 29/06/15 08:59 AM Not that I'm aware of, 2 main issues I can see, intercooling will be a pita, water to air might work or better still methanol. The other is turbos in boats in general(with exception to Diesel's). Your going to be holding the thing at high rpm for long periods of time relative to a car, which means dealing with a white hot exhaust manifold and turbine. These problems can obviously be overcomehttps://youtu.be/6ht1hFo0Vk0Also using the factory pcm will be a pain.Pretty extreme case of glowing exhaust but you get the ideahttps://youtu.be/c2eWHNSaSZUHave done turbo jet boats with aftermarket ecus with no problems.Just the factory ecu is proving a challenge at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infomotive New Member 13 Member For: 10y 7m 22d Posted 29/06/15 09:04 AM Author Share Posted 29/06/15 09:04 AM This would be awesome!Cooling would be easy as you have endless supply of cold water flowing underneath, just run it through a heat exchangerE85 or methanol would be the best fuel choiceBut I would think once you do that your going to be in the Open class and against some big ass blown v8 boatsYes intercooling is the easy part for sure.Will be run on E10, not a race boat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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