Bolt in turbo?

pimpdaddy · Post by **pimpdaddy** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:16 am

I want to put a turbo into my 91 legacy. Is it a bolt operation if i get a turbo from a simlar car? Or is it not that simple? How much more power will that give me?

555BCTurbo · Post by **555BCTurbo** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:37 am

Search please

pimpdaddy · Post by **pimpdaddy** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:30 am

Can someone point me to some web sites that have performance parts for my car. Its a 91 non turbo, AWD 5 speed.

Splinter · Post by **Splinter** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:37 am

Pretty much any information you could want is on this forum, spend a little time reading old threads and doing some searching.

We're glad to have you here, but we're not going to spoon-feed you instructions. No one makes anything for our cars. It's all home-brewed or adapted from other subarus.

douglas vincent · Post by **douglas vincent** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:19 am

Bolt on, commonly available on Ebay for $39.99

turboleg · Post by **turboleg** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:16 pm

LMAO! - thats going to go down in history as my favorite douglasvincent post.

Bolt on turbo - no (or atleast its not that easy to get it right)
Bolt on engine - yes!

Easiest thing to do is to find a EJ22T and swap it in. Its pretty straight forward and there are a lot of threads on the bbs that have good information.

To do the swap you need to get:

-EJ22T - this is the turbo block from the bc/bf legacy
-the front crossmember for the EJ22T
-The EJ22T ECU
-Fuel pump from the EJ22T
-Up pipe/down pipe (lets just say the entire exhaust)
-The passenger side strut tower electronics (there's three sensors over there that you need) - You also need to build a very simple wire harness for these sensors if you don't get the EJ22T wire harness.

You can probably post for all these things in the parts shed here. Might take a while to find what you want. I looked for about 3-4 months before I found a good block (90K mile roll over).

All in all I think I spent about $1000-$1500 on the entire swap. The days of doing it much cheaper are pretty much gone.

I had my Turbo block installed and running in about 2 days working by myself with all the right tools. Really easy and quick horsepower if you ask me. I used an accelerometer to measure hp. With the FWD stock I got about 103 HP to the wheels. With the turbo block I get almost 140 HP to the wheels (and a lot of tire hop and spin - atleast I have a car that old people can watch go by their house and bitch about again).

I do however speak for the entire board when I say that if you find a Legacy Sport that is in perfect running order to take the engine out of...we will find you and hurt you! Find one thats already out of the car or wrecked.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:18 pm

If I could get one of those for $39, I'd probably build a GixxerKartKiller.

Kelly · Post by **Kelly** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:52 pm

I could build another one of these babies.

T3/T4 external gate, gonna cost you though.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:42 am

Hellah sexy. Looks like some fun!

GotSubie · Post by **GotSubie** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:26 pm

is that kelly from rallitech. if so is that what u droped in your red ss

Kelly · Post by **Kelly** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:33 pm

Its a turbo system I fabbed up for a customer. It went into an 03TS with a front mount.

Radial GT1 · Post by **Radial GT1** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:23 am

sweet

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Bolt in turbo?

Bolt in turbo?