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Mmm, missed the rear mount turbo question. Yes, rear mount turbos work. You are NOT going to get razor sharp response times, but you will get a good bit of extra power.
They work, and they will work well enough to blow the stock motor to pieces from too much boost/power. In someways they are safer than normal placed turbos since you typicly don't get the turbocharger "running away", or pressure spikes that can do **** like bend throttle plates. On the otherhand, lighting off a turbo such that its operating as a "jet engine" gets some stupid fast spool times and huge torque, so if you want to autoX, or break drivetrains, a close mount turbo is definitely the way to go.
However, its not that hard to use a more traditional subaru turbo position with most reasonable sized turbos, so might as well do that instead of re-inventing the wheel as it were.
Last edited by XT6Wagon; 07-18-2007 at 12:09 PM.
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