Supercharger or turbo

[PerryLa79]

I wanna cleaner look

[B C]

Nope, no remote mount here. I used to live near STS though and tons of people in the area ran them.

[SubmuzikBoss]

I can't do that for me e90 325 can I?

[PerryLa79]

I wonder how hard it would be to do it

[jc43089]

With a welder anything is possible!

[B C]

SubmuzikBoss said:

I can't do that for me e90 325 can I?

Sure thing. 

This is on an E46 325i

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?1491575-TURBO-PROJECT-E46-325I-10-15-lbs

[SubmuzikBoss]

That wud be sweet if I cud

[B C]

It would definitely be a fun project.

[Earl]

Are there any power gains from a remote mounted turbo? I can't see any advantage besides space savings and cutting down on engine bay temps. I can see the turbo being more laggy due to being that far down the line.

[B C]

It is not as efficient as one mounted closer to the engine with higher pressure + higher velocity exhaust gas, but the advantages I see are not having to buy an exhaust manifold or intercooler (you can say the same thing for a supercharger) and not having to deal with hacking things up in the engine bay to get it to fit. The OE mufflers are quite large so removing that gives a decent amount of space to work with.

Its not the best way to turbo, but like i said, If you have some money to burn on a car that you will eventually return to stock and sell, then a remote turbo system would be very easily reversible.

[Bassboy3313]

Its definitely one of the better alternatives I would say.

[PerryLa79]

Turbo it is then. Going to get the plans into work.

[B C]

a few example videos I found.

[PerryLa79]

Yeah I seen them already. But thanks man

[wasnt m3]

What is your budget on this build?

[PerryLa79]

I am not quite sure if I am going to do it yet because of being in Wisconsin and my 540i is my daily driver. Don't want snow getting all up in my turbo.