So I've been going on and on about putting a turbo on the Monte but I have decided not to do it yet. The reason being is the car has 202.593 miles on it. I was going to put it on there anyway and run it till I blew it up.(sounded like fun) Then I got to thinking about it and all the work did not sound like fun!lol So I went and got another motor today. I'm going to rebuild it this summer that way I can still drive the car and push more boost to it when I put it all in this coming up winter. I plan on porting and polishing the heads,intake,and throttle body.

What all would you all do to the motor to make it handle around 20 pounds of boost safely? I plan on driving the car about every day so I need to keep this in mind. I'll be posting pictures as I make progress. This is my first turbo motor so I'll be asking a lot of questions so please bear with me through this build.


Here are the picture's of the beginning of the build.







Started porting and polishing the throttle body.

 

22psi is a crap ton of boost and I would never even think about that on a daily driver. For a daily driver I would stay around 10-12 psi.

To get even close to 20psi you will need a massive fuel system and probably run e85 or race fuel. Also 20psi will make around 550ish hp which will kill a trans very very quickly. 10-12 psi will make around 350whp and is plenty for a daily driver. This will still cause trans issues on a stock trans but a built trans will last a little while. If only making 350whp on 10-12psi no need for heads etc just a very good intercooler, bigger injectors, fuel pump rewire, racetronix 255 fuel pump, and either plogs front and rear for a zzp turbo kit or plog up front and Ported rear on a cartuning kit. Also make sure to have a cutout

 

I just sent you a pm before I read this,lol After reading a little about your car I realized that 20 is to much. I'm sure that with my work and your knowledge we can get this car built. thanks for the info. again