Here's some more info about the Garrett AirResearch T0-3 turbo that I found in a paper that was submitted to Ford Motor company about the benefits of fitting a turbo to the 2.3 liter Ford engine and comparing it to the 5.0 v-8. The paper was written and presented in February 1979. It's 24 pages in its entirety, here are three.

This is a diagram of the turbo, note how the exhaust inlet and outlet both point down... there's almost no way to mount this turbo on the exhaust side of the engine.
This compressor map shows that the turbo can flow enough air for 300hp. To convert from lb/min to cfm of airflow divide lb/min by 0.069. Fourteen lb/min is about 200 cfm. The crossover pipe is the pipe that carries exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold across the engine to the other side where the turbo is. Ford's experiments show that bigger is better, my crossover pipe is 2 inch pipe and will soon be wrapped with heat-insulating tape to make sure that the exhaust gas does not cool down and contract much before finding its way to the turbo.
This is a suck-thru design, meaning that since the compressor seals can hold oil from seeping past them under vacuum, the throttle plate (carburator in this system) can be mounted upstream of the turbo. In this setup, no blowoff valve is needed because when the throttle valve is closed, the turbo's air supply is cut off and vacuum builds, not pressure.
The paper goes on to compare boring stuff like emissions output, cooling requirements and maintenance schedules. There are cool tidbits like: the turbocharged engine makes .31hp/lb and the 5.0 only makes .27hp/lb.
Also the turbo engine makes 60hp/liter of displacement, and the 5.0 makes 31hp/liter. or almost HALF the power per liter... and that was only at 5psi of boost!

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