Aug 04, 2021 Turbo Direct SA, Chris Kambouris, compressor wheel, Toyota Land Cruiser V8 70 series
Turbo Direct SA designs a new compressor wheel for the Toyota Land Cruiser V8 70 series
The new turbo compressor wheel for the Land Cruiser 1VD-V8 70 Series was designed exclusively for WR Off Road Industries (Pty) Ltd.
“We have installed this upgrade in more than 50 vehicles to date, and some Land Cruisers having accumulated over 150 000kms on the clocks without a single issue after the upgrade,” said Willie Randles, CEO of WR Off Road Industries in Pretoria. “The upgrade has more than doubled the power and torque of the engine, yes doubled it, and has been a huge success,” said Willie.
The upgrade in terms of the CNC machining of the compressor housing and backplate takes literally no more than 5 minutes due to the full automated CNC engineering line at TurboDirect S.A. The rest of the work on the turbo can be done in less than 3 hours - so to receive, clean, upgrade, balance, flow calibrate and run the simulation on the TurboDirect S.A proprietary turbo simulation rig, a Land cruiser V8 turbocharger is ready for re-installation takes less than 3 hours.
“We were asked to show how we conduct a hybrid upgrade to a turbocharger; we chose a popular upgrade path in South Africa which is the Toyota Land cruiser 70 series 4.5D V8 single turbo,” said Chris Kambouris CEO of TurboDirect SA. “The turbo is a Garrett unit which is VNT controlled by a pneumatic actuator. In our new YouTube video clip, we show you every step of the way how we build a Hybrid turbo, using compressor designs that are created by TurboDirect SA’s Chris Kambouris himself. The machining of the compressor wheels is done in-house and so is the entire hybrid build process from start to finish. No hand tools are used in any of the engineering or critical processes, everything is CNC controlled for 100% repeatable results and un-matched accuracy. Not to mention the great pricing for the complete upgrade, available exclusively from WR Off Road.
The Video covers Part 1 and 2 of the hybrids build on the Toyota V8 4.5 D Land Cruiser - in this video you will see the technical assembly and VSR balancing process, Flow calibration and final testing of the turbocharger.
Part1: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7u_7OsbXY&t=2111s
Part2: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOyvX7xqpwk&t=1035s
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