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Originally Posted by Boxer486
No. Measure the temperature of your exhaust manifold versus a pulley and also the IATs from both non intercooled and get back to me.
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Not to mention that in the FT-86 platform, you most often have increased hot parts surface area radiating into the engine bay with a turbo, and thus have increased heat management issues. Just ask the CSG guys with regards to tracking turbo'd FT-86's. It's a royal pain. The track guys seem to like either superchargers, or more often, just stay NA. Maintenance is much less of a headache. Turbos are possible, but there's a LOT of work that has to be done in order to regulate the massive increase in radiated heat that's going to happen. EGTs, even when the turbo isn't fully boosting, are still going to be UP b/c the turbine wheel is ALWAYS spinning, and the exhaust gases are VERY hot and radiating into the engine bay over an increased surface area. Not a good recipe unless you've seriously heat-proofed your build, and even then you're going to have issues sooner rather than later. Best idea for long term reliability would be to do some serious work on airflow in the engine bay to force cooler air in to forcibly displace the heated air. Vented hood, air dams, properly sealing the sides of the racing radiator against air flowing around it, etc.
For a street driven ONLY car, it's probably nowhere near as big an issue, but still... your reliability is not going to be as good as staying NA or going with SC.
Unless you want to go with the turbo kit (forgot the company) who has designed a rear-mount turbo for the 86. I think there's still heat issues, but not like there is with other kits. OR, go with STS's rear-mount turbo kit.