2.3 turbochargers?

MY form has a boxed with turbo checked.

Like Emysterio said, the best thing would be to find a Already Turboed Ford, cause a turbo kit and installing it would be very high priced. You could get a turbo thunderbird or turbo mustang from a junk yard. They say look for one thats wrecked bad, so you know thats why its there and not the engine.

Insurance for 17 year olds is very high, I'm 17 too.
I was gonna turbo my 86 Mustang until I found out it was a 3.8V6 already.

Ditto the engine swap, either a Turbocoupe or a Merkur (the wiring harness is easier) will work wonders. As long as a 2.3 resides in the engine bay, insurance companies don't care if there's an iron lung of a turbo hanging off the side. Turbo "kits" are for the import pansy-asses, junkyards hold all your answers. An entire engine, wiring harness, ecu, manifolds and all shouldn't be more than $400-$500 and you still have the original 2.3 for spare parts too.

Check turboford.org and use the search button for loads more info.

Bendutro said:

Turbo "kits" are for the import pansy-asses, junkyards hold all your answers.

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They don't make kits for our cars do they

I know When I did my 77 chevy ( I know I hate chevys) truck I had to put that I had over sised tires and that I got some beefier parts on the engine and that It a 4 inch lift. other wise my agent said I could get in alot trouble if I got in a bad wreck. Like Dan'l said it's beter to be honest and maby pay the lilte bit more for it then get in to deep later on.

or do what i did. buy a 5.0 and put full coverage and be lucky and only pay 75 dollars a month. but in order to do that 75 a month you would have to be best friends with the agent and have your mother as the daily driver. you know since women always get cheaper insurance. it was gonna cost ME 300 for full coverage on my mustang. full coverage on my mother was 75 fuggin dollars damn women. BUT i got pulled over in my mothers nissan sentra 1.6liter 4 banger. when i got pulled over i was doing 75 in a 65 and he ticketed me for burnt out tail light and riding someones ass. ****ing cop there was hella trafic. thats when my inssurance rose to 130 a month for full coverage.

but anyways i am close on paying off the 5.0 and once i do im going to buy a 2.3 mustang prolly 91-93 and put in a turbo engine and after that use it as my daily driver if i did the swap correctly. just give me till the end of summer. it would be sooner but since im on probation i gotta spend about 30 hours a month on all kinds of ****, like community service, drugs and alcohol classes, anger managment classes, and most important GED classes so yea i cant work 2 jobs as much as i wanted to anymore.

(First, if you have an automatic, stop worrying about making it faster and swap in a T5.)

Here are your choices.

TURBO:
You are gonna want to find a donor car. The easiest one to find is a Thunderbird Turbocoupe. If you get an '87 or '88 model, you'll want to swap out the tiny IHI for a T3. Pull the motor and trans out, take it apart (the motor), and clean it up. Gather the remaining wanted/needed parts to put it in (i.e. new gaskets, boost controller, blow off valve, front-mount intercooler and ducting, 3" exhaust, LA2/LA3 computer or LB2/LB3 for automatics, 35lb (brown top) injectors, big Vane Air Meter (VAM), and any other modifications you'll want). Put it back together, pull out your old motor, and drop in the new motor. Get it running, and enjoy. That is just the simpllified process. In a stock configuration, running ~19lbs boost, you should make around 230hp. Mileage may vary.

Good step-by-step instructions can be found here:
http://24.91.96.177/stinger/turboswaphowto.html (Stinger's website)

NATURALLY ASPIRATED:
This is a much more challenging route. Pull out your old motor, and take it apart. Get the bare block vatted. Get high-compression forged pistons, and stronger rods. Shave the head a bit. Get a better n/a cam (the A237 is a popular one). Gather any other mods you'll want (bigger throttle body, mass air swap, custom-burn chip, 2.5" full exhaust, ported head, ported intake manifold, etc.). Put it all back together, and drop it back in. Get it running. This is also a simplified prcoess. This should net you ~140-170 total hp, depending on how extreme you take the cam, compression, porting, etc.

NITROUS:
Same as n/a. I would guess a 75-100 shot should be OK with forged pistons on the street w/ pump gas.

Be sure to check out the Tech Articles Thread at the top of the 2.3L forum page.

Some other good links:
http://gt350r.stangnet.com/index.html
http://www.40bob.com/index.html
http://www.wheelspin.net/projectcars/87coupe/87coupe.html
http://www.turboford.org/

Pro-Hawk said:

They don't make kits for our cars do they

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They make turbo kits for 2.3L rangers that I believe can also be used on 2.3 mustangs, the kits cost around $3500. Not the most cost-effective way to do things.

I guess a lot of the 5.0's running around are having probems with insurance too... since you know... most of them are 50hp+ over stock.

I personally wouldnt worry about the insurance predicament.