Anyone done one! I see you can buy kits from oz! Any other ways! The kit includes a turbo used on mitsis
mugenb20b,
Jan 3, 1:44am
I haven't seen a turbo 5LE yet, but you can also get performance upgrade chips for these motors.
littlebuckrat,
Jan 3, 4:27am
yes you can but only offer small increases from what ive seen
franc123,
Jan 3, 4:46am
You wouldn't bother with turboing one of those, better to rip it out and fit a 1KZ-TE instead.After all you are still going to have to get it certed.L series are a total non starter in the race for peformance, they're a hideously old and sluggish boat anchor of a motor.Fitting a turbo means that you can use an egg timer to measure the acceleration as opposed to a sundial.
ginga4lyfe,
Jan 3, 4:56am
That is hilarious.
1ollie,
Jan 3, 6:12pm
A good well looked after 5L will still be going years and years after the over rated 1KZ has blowen its self to peices and you have replaced it 5 times and anyone who says they are slow or rubbish clearly has no experience with them! All you need is to buy a resonable T3 sized turbo an a EVO sized intercooler off trademe, find someone that can fabricate an turbo manifold, bigger exhaust, intake piping and intercooler piping so try your local exhaust shop first or maybe a workshop that does any type of performance car work as its not a hard job at all! not so sure about the tuning side of things being a EFI one but on the old non EFI its just a matter of turning the diesel pressure up a little bit to match the boost.
littlebuckrat,
Jan 4, 2:57am
Actuakky toull find 1kz needs certed as iy requires changing the engine mounts and they are notall they are made out to be pretty sluggish highly spun things
franc123,
Jan 4, 3:21am
Re certification if you read the post correctly thats what I said.I will also reiterate that the 1KZ-TE is superior in every way to any of the L series engines, turbo or not IMO, this is especially so if an auto trans is fitted.Their performance is not comparable.You wouldn't see people rushing to convert their later model Surf or Granvia or Hilux back to the old engine would you now!
1ollie,
Jan 4, 4:49pm
You can reiterate and make irreivent comparisons all day long but thats still not going to save you from being incorect LOL
franc123,
Jan 4, 5:10pm
Bollocks and you know it.Irrelevant comparisons!Its completely relevant for anyone who was wanting more performance from a 4 cyl Toyota diesel, the solution is obvious.
gadgit3,
Jan 4, 5:26pm
Just bolt on a 2L-T turbo, manifold water lines and oil lines job done. But you will need to either find a piggy back ECU to run more fuel at the correct times or just bump the load screw up (but then you get black smoke at lighter TP) Or you could just fit a 5L non EFI pump and dial up the fuel and use the altude compensator as a boost compensator.
1ollie,
Jan 4, 5:54pm
No YOU are bullocks! He is talking about turboing a 5LE not puting in an overly expensive over rated motor! whats talking about later model vehicles and down grading the engine got to do with it! NOTHING. Yes the solution is very very obvious. spend $2000-2500 or so on your current engine and have it make more power & torque and have more reliability than the $3000++($5000! by the time its fitted and legal!) engine could have.
1ollie,
Jan 4, 5:55pm
The 2L turbo is way to small for the 5L is the only problem there.
gadgit3,
Jan 4, 6:10pm
You'd think so but the CT20 is big enough for a engine that makes no usable power over 3200rpm and then you get faster spooling at lower RPM which is what you want from a diesel. The whole unit from the 2L-T bolts on and can be found S/Hand for round $800. custom manifold will set ya back that to fit an after market one.
nb,
Oct 13, 10:13pm
x3
Buy a fucking 5L-E Turbo kit
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