I’ve just put a new muffler on the car with a tip. Thrush turbo with stock piping and vibrant 3.5” tip. I wanted a borla but practically nothing fit at all. Took forever to find a small muffler that wasn’t the autoexe one that was made for it. Hard to stomach the $600ish price. So my next question is, is it possible to turbocharge my car? I would live the extra power. Don’t wanna run too much boost just enough for 20-40hp. Just want some extra “go”. Possible?
Turbocharging 2.3L auto?
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- 2008 Mazda5 GT
You can turbo anything. Lots for you to google and read on Internet. It will be expensive and you get bonus cost to add beefier torque converter that manual owners don’t have/need. In short, Fuggedaboutit...
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Totally doable. The 2.5 in the Mz5 is a bored out version of the 2.3 which was used in the Mz3 since 2004, and plenty of people turbocharged those motors, though the general consensus is it was easier to turbo the 2.0 for reasons I don’t recall and probably couldn’t really explain if I did.
Car and driver did a mazdaspeed 3 2.3 DISI motor swap into a ‘09 1st gen Mz5 about 10 years ago. It ended up being a huge amount of work because the electrical architecture was so different (5 used a BCM, speed3 used a PJB). As for actually installing apparently the motor mated up with the engine bay just fine. They had some difficulty with the larger brake booster and had to make some minor modifications to fit the radiator/intercooler. The track times weren’t impressive, but it did have more oompf than the stock motor. Both the project and donor cars were donated by Mazda.
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20hp isn’t very much, so most of your motor would probably be fine with that. When you start going for max power the amount of money and work going into the car will quickly climb. You’re already feeling the hit of $600 for a muffler, so this type of mod might not be for you. There are people with $20k+ into motor mods going for big power.
EDIT: inadvertently said 20 lbs boost vs 20hp.
Car and driver did a mazdaspeed 3 2.3 DISI motor swap into a ‘09 1st gen Mz5 about 10 years ago. It ended up being a huge amount of work because the electrical architecture was so different (5 used a BCM, speed3 used a PJB). As for actually installing apparently the motor mated up with the engine bay just fine. They had some difficulty with the larger brake booster and had to make some minor modifications to fit the radiator/intercooler. The track times weren’t impressive, but it did have more oompf than the stock motor. Both the project and donor cars were donated by Mazda.
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20hp isn’t very much, so most of your motor would probably be fine with that. When you start going for max power the amount of money and work going into the car will quickly climb. You’re already feeling the hit of $600 for a muffler, so this type of mod might not be for you. There are people with $20k+ into motor mods going for big power.
EDIT: inadvertently said 20 lbs boost vs 20hp.
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I will be talking a project like this on come winter/spring time.
And as far as 20psi of boost goes that's insanity on a non turbo motor. I plan to go 5-7psi max. Should net around 200whp mark
I'll be using mostly mazdaspeed 3 parts to do it along with a custom tune.
I'm no stranger to turbos tho as I own 4 turbo cars as it is one being a 500hp eclipse Spyder. It isn't a small task to do on non turbo motor and if you don't source the parts used and do it all yourself you probably looking at 5k+ easy.
I figure I'll be able to do it for around 1k not including tune and I already have upgraded 2.5" id exhaust cat back.
I'll start a thread when I start it up
And as far as 20psi of boost goes that's insanity on a non turbo motor. I plan to go 5-7psi max. Should net around 200whp mark
I'll be using mostly mazdaspeed 3 parts to do it along with a custom tune.
I'm no stranger to turbos tho as I own 4 turbo cars as it is one being a 500hp eclipse Spyder. It isn't a small task to do on non turbo motor and if you don't source the parts used and do it all yourself you probably looking at 5k+ easy.
I figure I'll be able to do it for around 1k not including tune and I already have upgraded 2.5" id exhaust cat back.
I'll start a thread when I start it up
Antoine
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Yes, please!
yeah that was a mistype on my end. Meant to put 20hp, not lbs of boost.
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Nice to have a gear head Mz5 owner.
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