Normalair-Garrett Manufacturing - 1970s turbo kits

[Franco Cozzo]

Found this and I thought it would be interesting to some others here on AFF, looks like in decades gone by there was some early work on turbo setups for Cortina/Falcon with 3.3L/4.1L Crossflow engines:

Looks like it was done by a company called 'Normalair-Garrett Manufacturing' based in North Western suburbs of Melbourne, which appeared to be part of the Honeywell Group, based in Airport West, and their ABN was deregistered in 2020.

Was anyone aware of this company and these kits? Seems an early effort of using turbo technology a long time ago, they look like they're using draw through carb setups, where its putting fuel through the compressor of the turbo which is rather interesting - every time I've seen a turbo setup on a carb its been blow through rather than draw through.

Doing a bit of research, looks like they were around in the late 1970s and doing stuff for local cars incorporating turbo systems, they had done various Holden 6 and 253/308 setups too which didn't receive support from Holden at the time.

As well as companies like Garrett-AIResearch which seemed to do a kit for an XE Falcon, we saw one of the cars come up for auction recently here on AFF when someone linked to it,

Certainly well ahead of their time, its a bit of a shame that there was no interest from Ford or Holden with these products where the aftermarket had put effort into creating an out the box solution.









I found the PDFs on the below website, they are available for download if you want high resolution copies.

http://www.mikevineturbochargers.com...%203.3-4.1.pdf

http://www.mikevineturbochargers.com...0Crossflow.pdf