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M20 Turbo => M50 turbo fun.

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    Rowleym
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    Yup. Bought it. He gave me a wastegate too. It's in super good condition. Yea I have it on Craigslist and one guy is going to buy it if I still have it in 5 days. But he wants it for 300. Whatever. Hopefully someone gets it for 400. It's a damn nice turbo. Best hx40 too. Welded the wastegate shut tonight. And I learned to tig weld! Posted Image also, this dude is going to help me make a short runner intake. It's going to be super gnarly. Gonna find a huge throttle body off some gm and put it on there.

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      Rowleym
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      12cm exhaust housing on it by the way. That's gonna be perfect for drifting I think.

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      • 240sxguy2
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        240sxguy
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        Run the smallest throttle body that will support your power goals, I have a 90mm on my car and I would prefer that I didn't. It was much easier and better to drive with the stocker.

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          Rowleym
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          Thanks for the input. I'll research that momentarily. I didn't have a clue it would affect driveability. What exactly is affected?

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          • 240sxguy2
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            240sxguy
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            Simple, a larger throttle body will let in more air when you push the pedal down the same distance as before. As a result, I have to use a very light foot when driving my car. I found it easier to modulate the throttle when leaving from a stop with an OEM throttle body. If you do want a monster throttle body I think I have a land rover one that you're welcome to. Just pay shipping. I may or may not still have it though... hard to remember.

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            • Brian.B
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              Brian.
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              I could take it up to him, he lives in the town where my shop is.

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                Rowleym
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                Got my flywheel resurfaced. Getting my head welded this week for 200$. Woohoo!

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                  Brian.
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                  I lied. I left already

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                    Rowleym
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                    I tried reading up on throttle bodies. I want to build the short runner with capabilities of 500hp. Any recommendations on throttle body size?

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                    • 240sxguy2
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                      I stole this from the accufab site;

                      For instance, the popular 5.0 Ford Mustang typically was equipped with a 60MM throttle body from the factory. This equates to a flow rating of 495 CFM. The Accufab 5.0 Mustang replacement throttle body sizes start with 65MM. The 65MM unit flows 664 CFM. This is a CFM flow increase of 34%. The Accufab bolt on replacement throttle bodies are available with units up to 105MM for the 5.0 Mustang. The 105MM unit will flow 1550 CFM, way more than triple the stock flow rating. Of course, only a serious race engine could even come close to benefiting from that amount of airflow.

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                        I am not sure how this would work with a turbo setup, but on an NA engine you would want to measure the pressure difference across the throttle body. Connect a vac. gauge to a vac. port upstream of the throttle body and take readings at full throttle+high rpm, then repeat with the vac. gauge connected to the manifold (downstream of the TB). I'd imagine you would want to run the smallest throttle body that gives 0 (or virtually 0 ) pressure drop.

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                          Rowleym
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                          Well because I want about 500hp, Well a least this Is what I'm building the intake manifold for, I would roughly want around 1000 cfm right? I don't know. I just looked some stuff up. So I need to find a gm throttle body that flows 1000cfm... I think?

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                            Brian.
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                            500hp out of a stock block M20? Don't tank your motor. The M30 can hardly handle 500HP reliably...

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                              That's even a lot for a stock m50, and they handle boost wayy better.

                              Sent from the future. Or my phone, who knows.

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                                Rowleym
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                                Dude I'm definitely not putting 500 down on the stock m20. No way. I'm just saying if I'm gonna put the time and money into making a great intake manifold, I should build it for my ultimate power goals? Just a thought.

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                                  Rowleym
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                                  If my motor is trash, I still might do an m50 swap haha. I really like the engine.

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                                    Rowleym
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                                    How much would I have to modify a exhaust mani from a m20 to fit a m50?

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                                      The M50 has more rectangular ports, the M20's are more round, the M50 has 4 bolt flanges and the M20 has 2.

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                                        Rowleym
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                                        But are the distances different? Could I just buy a flange, chop mine off, and weld the new one on?

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                                          Rowleym
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                                          Going a new direction! Swapping in an m50. Anyone wanna buy a m20 with 128k on it? Also hooked to an auto trans so it was never over revved. Getting a m50 with 135k on it. Hopefully I don't have to replace too much. Too bad I just spent a bunch on money on that damn m20..

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