No its not backwards im wondering what it would take to run a t2 na? any ideas guys i wanna get my car running soon.

 

I don't beleve it would take much. Just an N/a header bolter up to the rest of the exhaust, a regular intake instead of the intercooler, and plug/reroute the oil and water lines for the turbo.

 

yeah should last about a week before you blow a coolant seal and or a apex seal

 

why would he blow a seal?

 

im curious about this one too.seems like it would last longer,and being that there would be only 4 ports instead of six,wouldnt it get better gas mileage than an na? i know it would be slower,but still. maybe this guys onto something. cause if you want to run n/a,you could take the turbo off a t2 motor,and stil have the better t2 trans. i dont see how a seal would blow being that the turbo motors have less compression to begin with. you also wouldnt have to worry about the auxilary ports not working. so you could run a header on an s4 and not have to wire the ports open

 

And why is this?

On the surface, NA'ing a TII is not that difficult. Remove the turbo, block appropriate lines, get an exhaust setup and reroute the intake. However, due to the low compression rotors, the car will be a complete dog. The intake manifold is also optimized for boost, not vacuum.

If you really want to do this, I would highly suggest building a 4 port block with NA (89+) rotors, using a S4 intake (ported) and the proper ECU (NA, 86-88).

 

Carx7(The 420Hp street beast) did this when he had to pass emissions.

He's running a Haltech so it's alittle different electronics wise but some what the same.

He ran a NA Exhaust manifold and left everything the same.

It was pretty funny since he has this huge *** front mount IC and big piping and then just a Mushrrom filter on the end of it instead of a turbo.

 

Ill trade ya a na for a turbo, its alot eaiser than doing the conversion

 

yea, looks like you would be better off selling the turbo and gettin a na.

 

....but, what do you know, its your car with some sentimental value, you can't give it up I suppose.

 

No the reason i asked is i bought a non running turbo car missing the turbo and i was wondering if i could take the header of my na and get it running. thanks for all the good responses.

 

hey what happend with your t2 motor. If you still have it and its blown i'll buy it from you

 

wouldn't it run incredibly too rich for n/a with a t2 ecu?