{"id":6888,"date":"2015-06-25T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2015-06-25T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:33:09","slug":"1959-austin-lancer-with-a-quad-turbo-buick-v6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=6888","title":{"rendered":"1959 Austin Lancer with a Quad-turbo Buick V6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-02.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6891\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=6891\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-02.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"1959 Austin Lancer with a Quad-turbo Buick V6 02\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;1959 Austin Lancer with a twin-compound turbocharged Buick V6&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-02.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-02.jpg?resize=960%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1959 Austin Lancer with a twin-compound turbocharged Buick V6\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-02.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-02.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-02.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony&#8217;z Garage in Victoria, Australia specializes in turbocharging Holden V6 and V8 engines. Their experience is on display with this 1959 Austin Lancer. The car runs a Series I Buick V6 with stock internals from a Holden Commodore and uses a twin-compound turbo system. That&#8217;s four turbochargers in total, with the smaller turbos run at about 8-10 psi and the larger turbos runs at 14 psi for a total of about 23-24 psi total of boost. The engine produces 402 horsepower (300 kw) which doesn&#8217;t sound like a lot running four turbos but then again engine is completely stock. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBS6_v1sdf8\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-01.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6890\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=6890\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-01.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"1959 Austin Lancer with a Quad-turbo Buick V6 01\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;1959 Austin Lancer with a twin-compound turbocharged Buick V6&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-01.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-01.jpg?resize=960%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1959 Austin Lancer with a twin-compound turbocharged Buick V6\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-01.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-01.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1959-Austin-Lancer-with-a-Quad-turbo-Buick-V6-01.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Tonyz-Garage\/352070834902830\">Tony&#8217;z Garage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kBS6_v1sdf8\">Fullboost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony&#8217;z Garage in Victoria, Australia specializes in turbocharging Holden V6 and V8 engines. Their experience is on display with this 1959 Austin Lancer. The car runs a Series I Buick V6 with stock internals from a Holden Commodore and uses a twin-compound turbo system. That&#8217;s four turbochargers in total, with the smaller turbos run at&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=6888\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1959 Austin Lancer with a Quad-turbo Buick V6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-austin"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60374,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=60374","url_meta":{"origin":6888,"position":0},"title":"For Sale: 1965 Buick Skylark with a Grand National Turbo V6","author":"swaptastic","date":"August 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1965 Buick Skylark is for sale in Addison, Illinois for $45,000. 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