Can I put a turbo in my 91 loyale.

"Given enough time, money, effort... and a big hammer... , anything will fit."

 

My '90 has one. But you are looking at a lot of work to do a factory-style swap. Engine, intake system, forward exhaust system, front cross-member, wiring harness, ECU, possibly fuel pump. Did I miss anything? If you had a crunched donor car it would be practical. Otherwise, might be better to look for an already turbo'd Leone/Loyale.

 

My $0.02

if you can find a parts car get the motor, or atleast everything to it and the heads, the ecu. cut off all the clips to the car side, as well as the ecu clips. you can make your own wiring in between. you can use your existing fuel pump and coil assembly, and most likely the same distributor(depends on the shape of the plug)

 

you will have to get a turbo motor or heads because the ports are different for the turbo intake, and the turbo doesnt fit with teh spfi manifold in stock fasion

It would be prudent to have the whole front wiring harness because they are different from turbo to normally asperated.

Can I put a turbo in my 91 loyale.

 

Yes

now the cheap hack questions start.

 

If you can make your own exhaust and just put an up-and down-pipes instead of the cat and rerout the air from the MAF to the turbo then straight into the TB, will the spfi computer compensate for the increased air flow? I helped with a turbo project on a suzuki samuri, but we found the turbo was junk and never got to see how the MAP sensor would compensate, so I was wondering if a MAF conversion from a spfi with the subaru computer running the engine would work for boost.

since its a maf, and not a map, it should compensate for at least 3-5lbs of booost. unless you run it in death vally it should think the boost is just very low altitude.

 

it has been done on an ea81 with spfi, but it wanted to blow up, so rrfpr should help lots. =]

the maf on your car now is different from the one on mpfi

 

wha you will want is to get if not the harness, you will want all the components under the hood, and all the plug in ends to them. you can chop what you need from the donor car harness, grab the ecu and the clips to it. make your own wiring inbetween, tap into powe and agn circuits on the car, and have all the ecu and harness to it be independent from the car's harness. this way you could swap the electronics with the motor if you put the motor in another car thereafter.