no way i believe that a rear turbo set up is going to spool faster than a normal setup. the reason you "don't need an intercooler" is because the length of piping form the back has more volume (but much less surfce area) than an intercooler and the air coing by cools. so it is an intercooler of sorts that has not much restriction, but a lot of volume and ver poor cooling efficiency. your major lag is going to come because the amount of piping in the exhaust before the turbo is immense and in order to fill that, it is going to take a while. i see it as a decent solution when space really is an issue, but in 90% of the cases, it is a very poor soution.
You'd benefit greatly from reading around before posting.
When you consider the amount of tubing that exists in and around the intercooler, the amount of tubing running from beneath the cab straight into the manifold is hardly any more than that of the tubing that typically sits under the hood anyway. And, like in my case, where there is literally ZERO room under the hood, this is the only option, and a truly decent one at that. If I choose to run an intercooler later, I can put it in without losing any spool time, but since the IAT's aren't near as high as running an under-hood turbo in the first place, there really isn't much point until you really start to add in alot of boost.
Mathematically, I am running LESS intake pipe volume that many of the intercoolered-turbo'd 5.0 Mustang's I have looked at, and I'll only have marginally higher IAT's. I'll spool just as fast, don't worry. As soon as my headers merge is where I'm placing mine (next to the T-case), not clear in the back, so again, when you do the math, I don't have any more exhaust tubing to really fill either.