What to do..

[BigRAWesty]

Well this is eating me inside out..
I have the turbo.
I've sold some parts so now will have some cash for the manifold.
Will do all the piping myself, will still need oil lines.
Stock exhaust will stay for the moment, but I will remove the muffler to make it straight threw..

My only draw back, my engines age..
Half a million on the clock.
Original clutch is also another draw back.

Am only looking to do 10-12psi, but I want reliability and I'm unsure how long the motor has got.

So, I need some direction..
Help

[93patrol]

i would do a compression test on your motor and put a new clutch in it any way especially if your still planning on heading off on your trip

on getting your compression results you can then decide whether to go ahead with the turbo or not.

[BigRAWesty]

Yep, good call.. Should do that..

[93patrol]

i would hate to see you get the turbo on only to blow up the engine and the clutch just after you've left home and then have to turn back because its cost you 15g to get it all fixed.

[SonOf]

Be worth sticking it on a dyno if all pans out, get the pump recallibrated so it doesn't under/overfuel. Adding an EGT would also be benaficial.

[BigRAWesty]

Yea have egt gauge and needle setup already. Would need boost gauge.
Tune would be done if I turbo it.

[Cuppa]

I am no mechanical guru, most here probably know more than me.
I may get howled down for this....... but feel I gotta say what I think.
Even though I don’t know your car, there is no way known I would be throwing the sort of money you plan to ‘invest’ in your car, particularly as you hope to drag a van around the country with it. I reckon fitting a turbo to a motor which is by no means a spring chicken is just a false economy, likely to end up costing you a lot more when it ‘lets go’. I recognise that you know your own car better than most & that it is yours (& your wife’s?) decision which way to go with this.......... all I’m saying, having experienced the need to get a replacement motor in a remote area, that the experience is stressful & sure ain’t a lot of fun, & VERY expensive once freight & remote area hourly rates are taken into account.
If I were in your shoes I would be looking at either making the car as unstressed & reliable as possible without spending any more than I had to with a view to leaving it & getting a bus home if it let me down in a big way somewhere, OR saving for something younger & with a lot less kms for the trip, postponing the trip until in a position to achieve this.

Not telling you what to do, just sharing how I look at it.

Cuppa

[BigRAWesty]

I am no mechanical guru, most here probably know more than me.
I may get howled down for this....... but feel I gotta say what I think.
Even though I don’t know your car, there is no way known I would be throwing the sort of money you plan to ‘invest’ in your car, particularly as you hope to drag a van around the country with it. I reckon fitting a turbo to a motor which is by no means a spring chicken is just a false economy, likely to end up costing you a lot more when it ‘lets go’. I recognise that you know your own car better than most & that it is yours (& your wife’s?) decision which way to go with this.......... all I’m saying, having experienced the need to get a replacement motor in a remote area, that the experience is stressful & sure ain’t a lot of fun, & VERY expensive once freight & remote area hourly rates are taken into account.
If I were in your shoes I would be looking at either making the car as unstressed & reliable as possible without spending any more than I had to with a view to leaving it & getting a bus home if it let me down in a big way somewhere, OR saving for something younger & with a lot less kms for the trip, postponing the trip until in a position to achieve this.

Not telling you what to do, just sharing how I look at it.

Cuppa

Yes, and exactly what's holding me back cuppa..
The car will pull a van, just not at 110.. Which doesn't bother us..

[Cuppa]

When you’re ‘on the road’ with no schedule to keep, speed becomes irrelevant. Cruising speed in our bus is around 80 -90kph on a good day, can get a lot slower if going up hills..... but it still gets there. Only time it feels slow is in heavy traffic but most of Oz doesn’t have heavy traffic & easy enough to avoid the bits that does.