Information on the ATS Turbo Kit

[nycxjeremyy]

Does anyone here know much about the ATS Turbo Kit?



Been trying to gather information about it recently, id like to know as much about it as I possibly can, I am well aware that these kits are on the less common side of things, hence my reasoning for finding our more about it.

(Photos + Videos of said Turbo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ctr5Bt25vyo4uv8q6 )

One of the things Id like to know if the pressure im running is proper or not (it runs at 3PSI at highway speeds) if it has a wastegate or not, and most importantly, if theres anything else I can do to help it perform better

Im mainly trying to look at specifications of this Turbo (rebuild kits if possible)

If anyone has information on it, please do tell, anything helps, thank you.

(1985 6.2)

 

[MrMarty51]

Get the exhaust manifolds, crossover pipe, gaskets and a decent turbo for the 6.5 engine.
I think it all should fit Your 6.2.
Since You dont have an ecm there should be no error codes to set so You can run a manual wastegate, just keep boost pressure at about 12 but not over 15 PSI.

 

[jrsavoie]

Get the exhaust manifolds, crossover pipe, gaskets and a decent turbo for the 6.5 engine.
I think it all should fit Your 6.2.
Since You dont have an ecm there should be no error codes to set so You can run a manual wastegate, just keep boost pressure at about 12 but not over 15 PSI.

Do those fit in the old square bodies?

 

[ak diesel driver]

Not if it has AC

 

[Will L.]

Don’t replace them just because it isn’t the most common- heck the common gmx turbos are not very good. The factory crossover is a p.o.s. So unless building custom headers to get to the turbo flange, I say run what is there.

3 psi cruising at steady speed on freeway can be desirable-Theoretically.
Not knowing characteristics of the turbo we can only guess.

Now if you have your foot on the floor at any speed/rpm and it can only build 3psi that is an issue.
The smoking at ideal isn’t good, but the turbo isn’t involved in that unless the turbo is leaking oil into the intake- and every time that happens the smoke volume gets worse with rpm regardless of load. That doesn’t seem to be happening so I think the smoking is unrelated to the turbo.
Address the smoke as its own subject.

The pressure from the ATS, other owners said 10 psi is recommended but without ats documentation that is just best available speculation.
If it is getting up there when accelerating hard- no worries.

The turbo itself appears really small so Seeing the turbo map would tell how good/bad it can perform. If you spent a ton of money on sensors and recording everything we could determine how good/bad that turbo is compared to other options. But I rather some lower cost normal gauges like tach, egt, psi and when it’s time to spend the thousands of dollars- do that on a new turbo.

But we don’t know where your main needs are to even say which turbo would work great. I know a guy with a K5 who NEVER gets his truck above 40 mph.
5.88 gears and 40” tires. Only time he spends more than 20 minutes in it is when he is offroading. So a tiny quick spooling gm5 works great for him.