And we're going to be talking about 5 ways to prepare your car for turbocharging, because Charles

what are you doing to your car?

So I have a '98 GTI with VR6 2.8 Liter

and we are going to be bolting up a turbocharger to it. Super pumped, should see about a hundred horsepower to the wheel increase

With the turbocharger yeah, so I have a question for you charles

We're going to we're about five different things in order to you know get your car properly turbocharged, right?

What's probably the first thing you need if you want to turbo charge your car, so after you [have] your car, okay?

You got a car the next thing you need of course is....a turbocharger

[you] would need a turbocharger or it is really hard to boost your car with a

Turbocharger if you don't have a turbocharger, and so you've got this as a kit. Yeah, right this came all [as] a kit

This is a Garrett t3 T4 turbocharger which means it's a hybrid so the compressor inside is different than the exhaust side

okay, cool, [and] this would be quite a bit bigger than

Most most oem gas small engine turbocharged cars

And how much pressure are you looking to put in your 2.8 will probably be running?

About 10 PSI of boost so it's going to be low boost levels. I want this to be

Incredibly reliable

I'm not trying to push it to the max of this or the max of the engine

That's what [Volkswagen] is known for pushing it to the max.

I was going to say reliability

and honesty and integrity

glad we got all those out. pew pew pew pew

It's the gangster wheel what about [when] I'm not that gangster you can work out. Maybe this one

The Charles what's next on the list so next up on the list is going [to] be upgrading fuel components in most cases?

The stock fuel components meaning fuel pump and tank

[high] pressure pump if it has one and fuel injectors are probably not enough to deliver the extra

Quantity of fuel that your engine's going to need we're pushing more air into the cylinder

And we need to back that up with fuel. Right, more power you need more fuel.

the oem are probably going to have something capable for you know maximum power obviously and then a

Rich Air fuel mixture if needed, but not much more than that

so you need to be able to have more flow and that's what these will do for you as well as the

[inline] fuel pump now the other thing worth mentioning about fuel is if you're going to be turbo charging your car clearly you know you're

Putting some money into it you might as well

use the best fuel out there you can buy the highest octane you can buy and reason being is because

That reduces your chance of having knock

It's just one less thing to worry about

So get good fuel in it get a higher octane fuel so you don't have to worry so much about pre-ignition or knock occurring

in using those low Octane Fuels

Which are more more

Common to have in these kind of situations--- right and some of this may be a little bit overkill for me and the amount of boost that I'm running

But I'd rather as this build goes on

Do a little bit more than I absolutely need you know you might be able to run on stock injector stock fuel pump

But the last point you want to run out of fuel

Delivery is at the highest boost level right and then your lean and then all of a sudden you're getting pre-ignition

And then you have bigger problems

way big way bigger problems. They are problems like holes in pistons

Because of pew pew. Because of actually not bew bew more like beeeeww...bewwwww

The third thing we're going to need when we're adding a turbocharger [on] to our car is proper engine management

So the Ecm [and] monitoring, and we need a way [to] monitor will talk about the monitoring in a second

We're going to need to

have a computer that can compensate for this increase in air and this fuel demand simply putting new injectors in it is not going to

Get it done in fact it'll probably in some ways make your car run worse on an old car [like] mine

It is actually a chip that gets installed. So you've heard people talk about chipping their car

That one literally is a chip if the car's more modern usually it just comes in the form of an Ecm tuned

Some ecms do need to be opened up to

do this like adding a ground wire is a really common [thing] or simply plugging into the [obd] and

Changing the mapping and letting the computer know that you are now going [to] be

Increasing [airflow] of course then [that] needs to increase fuel change timing perhaps it really depends on how much boost you're going to be

asking [for] from the turbocharger and in certain situations

You're potentially electrically controlling boost as well

So we need to have a computer that can compensate for all that stuff. Okay and so on the monitoring end

you're going to be looking at exhaust gas temperatures and

Wideband O2 sensor for your Air fuel ratio right right depending on how you're doing it

You know a lot of these things a lot of these

Turbocharger setups come as kit so it's going to come [with] a tune or may come with a whole new engine computer

That does make it quite a bit easier, but even though the Ecm is going to be tuned for it

we still want to keep an eye and make sure that we're not running too lean or our timings not way off or

When we haven't developed some kind of problem like a boost leak like a failing injector

So that we don't run the risk of doing damage to the engine the great thing about cars that come

Turbocharged [is] all those safety measures [are] [built-in] yup and good kits will have those safety measures, too

But monitoring exhaust gas temperature and really more importantly monitoring air fuel with a wideband o2 that's the key is a wideband

Is vital to make sure that you don't do catastrophic engine damage now charles [a] tool

I have found helpful over the years in explaining on how stuff works. [I] didn't know this was coming

Is this white board and so what I wanted to mention?

We're going to get the reflections out there we go

We go to the things basically you want to keep it safe and in order to keep it safe

You want to start with a really rich mixture because that reduces the chance of knock so you start rich and then you start leaning

Out that mixture while you're tuning it and eventually you know your power is going to keep increasing and then eventually that power is going

To start to drop and once it starts to drop you go back to where it wasn't dropping

You can get peak power or you can stay a little bit safe and go left of that

Same thing with timing so you're going to start with heavily retarded timing. That's safer

You're not going to run into knock issues or pre-ignition issues

And then you slightly advance that time you keep advancing it you'll start to get to a point. Where you reach peak power

You don't want to get into a point where you start to get knock

But basically you would you advance it as much as you can based on the fuel that you have

The other parameters of your engine that allow [for] that and then you can reach a peak power

[two] ways of tuning it

But basically if you want to be as safe as possible

You keep it really rich you keep the timing retarded and then you play with that in order [to] you know have a car

That's more fun

But still reliable and I think it's really important to mention that this kind of tuning is

Usually best done on a Dyno to eliminate all of [the] other variables that would happen and not only it's a thousand times safer

But to eliminate all that stuff that could [potentially] happen if you did it in the back Street

Moving on to number four we're going to talk about cooling. So we've got three [different] things

We're going to talk [about] here our air. Yeah, oil. Yes, and water-ish right

We'll call it coolant. We'll call it water ethylene glycol. We'll call it coolant. Coolant G 13++ in this case

Yeah, so we are going to be putting more air

We want to you know one really common thing on most factory turbocharged cars. Is they have a charge cooler whether

That's air to air like this one or air to water like some other ones

Adding you know adding an intercooler or charge Cooler is not

Mandatory you don't have to do it, but it's more efficient

It's way more

Efficient and boy if you're going to go to all the trouble to bolt one of these babies on you might as well put in

a little extra work and

Cool that air coming into the engine. I would agree with you. Just don't paint it black. So when you compress air heap up

you don't want that heat going in your engine you want cool air lots of oxygen and

So you get one of these and you cool that you bring that intake air temperature down you make more power

and you do it more efficiently so great thing to do one thing on this you want to make sure you're using an

Appropriately sized one you don't necessarily need one

That's you know three feet tall right, and you also want to make sure you're not blocking too much of the radiator

By installing one of these because that coolant cooling down the coolant is also vital in this situation right absolutely

And you [know] as you mentioned if you get super big with this

You lose the effectiveness of it, so it's not necessary in the first place

and then also you're going to increase turbo lag because you're needing to fill this [entire] thing up with air before it gets into the

Engine right so not the smartest thing you want it appropriately-sized

moving on to the turbocharger itself you could have a liquid coolant in this this one is just oil cooled and

Also, you know allows for what does oil do right, so this is friction

So when it comes to cooling and lubricating [the] turbocharger this one is actually

just oil cooled and lubricated there are other setups that would have coolant lines coming to and leaving the

Turbocharger as well, so we need to make sure we're pumping cooled oil

Into this turbocharger, and then having a way for it to drain back into the oil pan so typically you'll get an oil pan

With a bung welded onto it so [you] can have a return

You know the feed source for the oil it really depends on the setup on my setup

It's going to be coming right out of the oil filter housing and then as far as coolant

It would be just the [same] you would need cool coolant to it and then a way for it to drain out

You know back to the radiator or whatever the setup?

Really best suits for for the vehicle, but you do on every single turbocharger

I've ever seen have a spot for oil feed and oil return. And so then finally of course

You're making more power more power means more energy

And more [energy] means more heat ultimately because internal combustion engines are not perfectly efficient

They're like not that efficient at all

That's like [30%] or so we can tell

So anyways you've got a lot of heat that heat needs to go somewhere you may need to upgrade your radiator as a result

So you can compensate with that that could also mean getting higher flow fans

And then you know

Some of these radiators if you get into higher temperatures if you're tracking your car things like that you may want to go with like

All aluminum Tanks rather than just plastic end tanks

And really it really sorry to cut you off it really depends on the setup for that. You know it [from] my set up radiators fine

I will be switching to two electric fans. The car from the Factory had one electric fan and then one

Auxilary Fan driven by a belt off the main fan which is [a] little bit

inefficient as far as

The overall efficiency of the cooling system goes so I am going to upgrade to two electric fans which will flow more air

But as far as do you need a radiator. Do you need to upgrade fans it really depends on the setup

Yeah, often you know it depends [on] where you live - so radiators are always designed for the worst-Case [scenario]

So they're assuming you're in Phoenix, Arizona, and it's extraordinarily hot and your flooring it, and you're not really doing that all the time

But if you are and if you want to - then you know you need to think about that and size your radiator

Appropriately that is a pretty cool story

Bro, so number five the last thing we're going to talk about and it's a bunch of different things

But basically what you'll learn if you turbocharged your car and do nothing else

Is that there are probably a bunch of weak points that you weren't thinking about that?

You should [have] considered when turbo charging it

So you know some of the more obvious ones if you add power?

You need to have brakes that can handle that power

You need to have tires that can handle that power you might want to size your exhaust

Appropriately because you have additional

Flow you know these are some [of] the more [obvious] ones clutch is another one that [you] probably really want to yeah clutch as well

So it's not slipping but [Charles] here has some different spark plugs. [yeah], [we] why do you have different spark plugs

I'm actually going to be dropping a one level of heat range down on spark plugs so that in that higher boost

Situation we're pushing the heat away from the spark plug a little bit more efficiently

[that'll] lead to less heat at the spark plug in a more even combustion

So the way that you're changing that heat rating is by changing how much of that?

Insulator is exposed and so if you expose more of it and has a higher heat rating it

Retains more heat if you expose less of it

It's putting more of its heat back into the cylinder rather than in the combustion [chamber]

Or the cylinder head, I should say cylinder head

You know remember [that] if you are adding this stuff to your car