My New Subaru

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[/URL] Its a 98 legacy GT, with a 2.2 engine in it. I've been told it would be cool and relativly do-able to put a turbo in it somehow, but I'm skeptical, so i cam to the best place I know of to ask for car help. What do you guys think?

Sep 15 2009 8:44PM

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eheath

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It already has a turbo...GT?

Sep 15 2009 8:45PM

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WILLFRO07

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It depends, how many miles are on it? sometimes if you turbo an older car with a ton of miles it can get a little sketchy reliability wise.

Sep 15 2009 8:46PM

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MC_

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Wouldnt be worth it. You could do it but youd only be able to run like 5psi with all the stock parts in it. Anything more than that an stuff would start to come loose an bad things would happen.

Sep 15 2009 8:48PM

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NilsJ

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its got 114000 miles on it. keep in mind it has the 2.2 engine, not the 2.5.

Sep 15 2009 8:50PM

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2.2 and performance dont really go hand in hand. My truck has a 2.2L and it sucks ass power wise. With the cost of a turbo youd be able to upgrade to a more reliable and more powerful subaru engine.

OR if you want real balls and torque throw a Chevy V8 in that bitch.

Sep 15 2009 8:56PM

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maybe this will work [url=http://img225.imageshack.us/i/img6884.jpg/][img=http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9276/img6884.th.jpg][/url]

Sep 15 2009 8:57PM

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eheath

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anyone? aren't the gts turboed?

Sep 15 2009 8:59PM

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nah it wont

Sep 15 2009 8:59PM

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statuswhitegirl

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no, gt does not mean it has a turbo

Sep 15 2009 9:00PM

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MC_

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Nah just the newer GT's are turbo. This gt is just more "Sporty". Better looking rims. Spoiler. Just little stuff.

Sep 15 2009 9:01PM

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RICK_ROSS

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better place for subaru car help
http://nasioc.com

PS dont ask questions like this...

Sep 15 2009 9:15PM

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RICK_ROSS

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and i will totally sell you my TD04, its the turbo out of the wrx... PM me if your serious

Sep 15 2009 9:17PM

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division.bell

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Google '22B' and then eat your words.

Sep 15 2009 9:19PM

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only the new ones/ i thnk they started putting them in once the 2.5l came out, but not too sure about it.

Sep 15 2009 9:19PM

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RICK_ROSS

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your an idiot

Sep 15 2009 9:20PM

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hartig

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look up some people's build threads who have done it before on google.
problem solved..

Sep 15 2009 9:21PM

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MC_

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Finally someone else that knows a thing or two about subarus. An yea. you think noobs get eaten alive on here. you should check some of the comments on nasioc.

Sep 15 2009 9:31PM

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eheath

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word

Sep 15 2009 9:32PM

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bananas

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cool now you can make some road kill

Sep 15 2009 9:37PM

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wintersway

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pretty sure they are

Sep 15 2009 9:56PM

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lmao, i've seen something similar where somebody put a Corvette engine into a civic or some shit like that. pretty funny

Sep 15 2009 10:30PM

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Legacy GT Model Years 2005 + are turbocharged.

Honestly, if you have a Naturally Aspirated Subaru like that and want to turbo it, it will be much easier and much more cost effective to do a complete engine swap. Many people opt to use the 2.5 liter engine for it's increased low end torque and tuning possibilites.

As mentioned above, NASIOC has a whole lot of information worth checking out.

Sep 15 2009 11:03PM

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RICK_ROSS

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true, ive seen people get banned for having a member number above 180,000

Sep 15 2009 11:28PM

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IRockLizzys

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Honestly, if you wanted to put a forced induction on it it would be better to just do a complete powertrain swap than to get all of the supporting mods for a turbo. A lot of people suffer under the misconception that you can just throw a turbo on an engine and call it good. I'm sure you'd be able to run a decent amount of boost on stock internals (I'm guessing 8-12 psi), but you would at the very least need to lower the compression ratio get a better fuel delivery system (mainly a pump), not to mention all of the other supporting mods for the turbo (i.e. intercooler, wastegate, bov). If you are serious about doing this, pm me and I can get you into contact with some people that have done turbo installations so they can give you some pointers.

Sep 15 2009 11:44PM

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i have a 97 legacy gt 2.5 and i looked into it and its really not worth it to do it. there has to be alot of aftermarket changes to do to it so i wouldnt blow up.

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