The reason I asked about the remote mounting is because more lag is pretty inevitable. Another thing I considered is, if the turbo does get mounted in the traditional remote mount location, pretty much all gasser kits come with sealed turbo units. Now, I don't exactly trust that but they're suppost to be the cat's meow. Something else I was sitting here thinking about is a belt driven supercharger, no hotside to worry about, just an intercooler and intake piping, and chances are lag is going to me very very minimal. Just thoughts rolling around in my head.
Lag is something i wouldn't worry too much about. in a high revving gasser there is reason to worry, but with a beefy diesel spooling at ~1800 rpms will provide near instant boost. there could be a teeny tiny bit fo lag from a remote mount piping the air up to the intake but less than would be caused by an intercooler.
supercharges it depends on which type you run with centrifugal super chargers like vortec and paxtons do feel "laggy" in most applications and i thinkthat owuld be worse in a diesel as they make boost in direct relation to rpm. i rode in a car with a novi 20000 blower and it just kept getting faster and faster, but it doesn't hit like a turbo at all. oyu just kept pressing the rpms up and it kept making more boost/power
a positive displacement blower like an eaton m series, blowzilla, kenne bell will provide boost on demand a hit like a freaking freight train on one of our diesels, but they are less efficient.
turbos are used most in diesel because diesels already have super hot exhaust (good for turbos), and very high amount of exhaust per 4 stroke cycle as compared to similar gassers (hence the high torque) both of those factors make turbos pretty ideal for a diesel (a super charger would have to be geared up/ or use a very small pulley to produce effient boost at engine rpms)
Still i would very much like to see a kenne bell'ed 6.9/7.3 low end power for days, and who cares if above 3500rpms suffers a little lol.
