Turbo L24

[noddle]

I after some information on running a turbo on a standard (stock) L24, no mods except its running EFI from a MR30 Skyline,

What I'm planing on doing, is buying L28ET (280zx) stuff from the US and installing on this engine, running 5-10 psi boost, no intercooler to start with,

what I need to know, will this work, and what sort of injectors I will need, since it's 2.4 and not 2.8 litre,

I'm not wanting a aftermarket ECU,

thanks for any input, and yes I have looked around a bit, but most of the stuff I found is for the L20 turbo stuff, or the L28 stuff in the US, found very little on the L24.

Nigel

[msnismo]

Have you tried Oz Dat??

http://ozdat.com/forum/

I also have turbo'd 200B with a Z18 head and L20 bottom end.... bullet broof the L series I tell ya .. Be interested to see how you go!

[noddle]

Have you tried Oz Dat??

http://ozdat.com/forum/

I also have turbo'd 200B with a Z18 head and L20 bottom end.... bullet broof the L series I tell ya .. Be interested to see how you go!

Sorry, I should have said L20ET (JDM) 6 cylinder 2 litre, not the local 4 cylinder ones.

[msnismo]

Sorry, I should have said L20ET (JDM) 6 cylinder 2 litre, not the local 4 cylinder ones.

Ahhh ok... no worries... yeah hard to get info on them!

[discopotato03]

Engine management and an exhaust manifold will be the hurdles on any L6 turbo - aside from the factory L20A-ET and L28ET . Interceptors would allow you to "bend" the airflow sensing device signal output so getting larger injectors to work acceptably should not be too difficult . What will throw a spanner in the works is the L24E's flap AFM because it probably won't handle enough air for a "forced" L24E . It may pay you to look into N/A L28 or FJ turbo AFM's because they should have adequate airflow capacity for a mild 2.4 turbo engine before they are fully open and no longer able to signal greater airflow . I have a feeling that early Nissan turbo engines like Z18ET and FJ20ET had the flap fully open before full power was developed and they pretty much just used the TPS and RPM signals to calculate their rich 10 odd to 1 full load AFR's . We're talking early 80's now and things were pretty crude compared to todays production car std's .

It would pay to check if the N/A L28 distributor's vacuum advance can has any scope to work as a pressure retard system under boost .

Actually if you really want to drag its engine control system out of the 80's into the late 80's anyway another option cold be to convert the dizzy/CAS from an RB30 to suit an L series and transfer the whole RB30 system . Luckily RB's and L series both use hose tail injectors and the only challenge should be the dizzy/CAS mechanical drive and the throttle body . RB 30ET's used a nock sensor too so a bit of thought would be needed to mount it in the right part of the block .

The classic people will want to shoot me but really I can see a lot of money going into an old car and for the money I think an R32 would be preferable. What do you pay for a fair manual R32 GTST these days ? I can understand to a degree why the classic people hang onto some models like DR30's and PNE 2000GT's but IMO the L24E powered MR30 has too many old systems such as mac struts and semi trailing arm IRS (and that god awful link steering) to justify sinking money into .

If the result is everything to you its time to update , my opinions only cheers A .