Re: Turbo Safari?
hehe, a person after my own heart (I'm one of those nutbags that's into hopping up mini vans, my Astro's getting a 305 TPI) Actually an AWD isn't any heavier then your Typhoons probably if so minimally so. My RWD weighed in at 3730, A/C, full interior less rear seat spare battery and half tank of gas. Supposedly the AWD only adds a few hundred pounds to the weight, doesn't a Ty tip the scales at 4 grand? I'd put the turbocharger "out the back" under the passenger seat, I've seen one done this way before, it works well. On the plus side without the A/C condenser in the nose you could cram a 4 inch thick mack truck intercooler in if you wanted, even with the condenser you could cram quite the cooler in there. I've got 30# injectors in my 305 with the Megasquirt II unit I"ve got I should be able to run a few PSI on the TPI motor when I get that far (hell, I'd be delighted with it in) There was a Syclone motor in a Safari up on ebay a few years back, I'm wanting to say it was an AWD but am not too sure. The harness for the TBI vans wouldn't be that hard to convert to the '7749 ECM, the biggest difference is that the Syclone's batch fired port injection while the Astro is TBI, I think the only stuff you'd need to run is for the turbo system (WG control) and you could modify what was there for the rest. I've got $5 that says 80% of the connections at the ECM would work with at most moving the pins to a different spot in the connector. (Hell, the GN motor swap harness I built had 2/3rds the pins in the same locations and it's a MAF DIS system compared to a HEI SD system)
ED:I can change the plugs on one in 45 minutes tops, beats a 'maro with headers
