Strange turbo set up for gas engine

[Robby05]

Scored this set up from a friend of mine with the hopes of one day putting it on a ratrod. Anyone ever seen this setup before? Or have any info. Thx

 

[Robby Avery]

Subd

 

[catman3126]

maybe a turbo car from the 80's?

 

[hondarider552]

Detroit?

 

[Burn Down]

Manifold looks like a pontiac... I guessing it's from the turbo pontiac trans am.

 

[Mile_high]

Manifold looks like a pontiac... I guessing it's from the turbo pontiac trans am.

I've only seen one, but it had three bolt flanges on the turbine side for both inlet and outlet. With that said, I have no clue.

 

[56taskforce]

Yes I have seen this setup on an iron duke. It's a 4 cylinder that used a single small block Chevy head.

 

[NinjaMax]

This is all I could find going off the pics, a listing on eBay,

http://m.ebay.ca/itm?itemId=231283264905

 

[mike diesel]

Did someone say iron duke??

I need this for my '89 2.5 iron duke s10!

 

[PureHybrid]

I THINK its an old banks turbo kit from the 80's... You would use the stock exhaust manifold on drivers side, then run a crossover pipe to the custom Mani on passenger side. There were valves in that adapter so when under vacuum in the intake manifold the carb air/fuel would bypass the turbo, then when stomped on the valves would shut and air was directed to the turbo. They did this for slow speed drivability, otherwise fuel would pool up in the compressor housing.

You can see the bypass valves in the third pic, manifold crossover pipe in 4th pic. $.02

 

[Robby05]

Cool. I know nothing about the turbo or condition. Haven't pulled anything apart yet. My thoughts were to bolt this onto a small block chevy & install it into some rust bucket without a hood of course. Wouldn't want to hide this beauty

 

[godseal]

It's a turbo and manifold for a sbc (Small Block Chevy, i.e. 350).