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What are the benefits of a rear mount turbo setup? Is it too purely to keep heat out the engine bay

 

Its entirely down to packaging IMO...failing to fit them in the engine bay. When a car is retrofitted with turbo's having been an NA there isn't always enough room for pipework etc. V8's have less space than I6's.

 

The alternative with a C5 'vette is a single turbo mounted in front of the engine block. I would imagine from the IS-F's packaging even that would be tricky.

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Its entirely down to packaging IMO...failing to fit them in the engine bay. When a car is retrofitted with turbo's having been an NA there isn't always enough room for pipework etc. V8's have less space than I6's.

 

The alternative with a C5 'vette is a single turbo mounted in front of the engine block. I would imagine from the IS-F's packaging even that would be tricky.

 

Yeah that makes sense :thumbs: suppose it would make it alot easier than trying to sqeeze everything in there, but would all that extra pipework not effect spool, boost pressure etc though?

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