confused about boosting need help

i need help with turboing my teg. i’ve look everywhere and read and researched about boosting but i can’t seem to sort out what exactly i need, every guide or post that i read was about a wide veriety of setups but i can’t seem to figure out what i would need as far as the ecu and electronics, oviously i need a turbo, wastegate, manifold etc. the basics but what about the computer and sensors, what would be the best to use with a basic turbo i.e. 10-15 lbs of boost, all the wiring is stock right now, i plan on switching to an OBD-1 computer but don’t know which one would be best and what kind of stuff i would need to tune for boost, can someone give an explanation of what electronics to use in conjunction with the mechanical stuff?

Read the Turbo Guide!

Have you read the guide? I also would highly recommend it. It’s alot of info to take in so read it in parts and reasearch what you don’t understand.

I’m assuming this is your first turbo build. Going turbo isn’t very easy the first time round and the guide doesn’t try to sugar coat it.

I should know, I’m going through the process of my first turbo experience. :slight_smile:

in case your lazy or cant find it

http://www.beesandgoats.com/boostfaq/g2icturbo.html
read this first and then ask questions, we can then be a better help

i did read the guide but there are so many differant setups like i said, what would be the best combonation of reliability, simplicity and cost, i was looking at the Apex-I SAFC or VAFC option with 450cc dsm injectors and an obd-1 swap but would that be the best option?

there is no best option. not unless u state ur budget and goals. safc or vafc is your worst option. stop being ignorant and read the turbo guide completely and you’ll figure out what your best option is for yourself. my choice would be a tune on crome. get your ecu chipped and have a tuner tune it.

As far as reliability and cost go you need to head on over to forum.pgmfi.org and read up on some grassroots tuning theory. Xenocron has excellent tuning kits that will get you up and running whether you wanna go OBD1 or OBD0. If you want a very reliable setup at a good price that’s the only way to go (short of having a shop do the tuning on a dyno with someone experienced using whichever management they choose). For simplicity, yeah an SAFC is easy to get up and running but you still need to see your wideband AFRs to get close to what you could call a tune. Remember though, you’re timing will always be advanced using a piggy back like that and your up shit creek as far as doing anything about it. If you’re committed to turboing there’s no reason not to do it right, it just takes much more time and effort.