Turbos or Nitrous
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Turbos or Nitrous
Its been a while since Ive been to any of the meetings due to the project I have been working on trying to get my car back up and running again. Now I am at a point were a need some input lol, I have a 351 windsor with aluminum GT40 heads, Trick Flow R series intake, Trick Flow stage 1 cam and a few other things done to it as well. I also have a cheap twin turbo setup that is brand new they are T3/T4 turbos they are made by XS power and a place called ss auto chrome sells them the kit is only$750 which worries me do to them possibly just flying to pieces lol. My second option is I also have a Nitrous Express plate kit for my 351 I love nitrous I ran it all the time on my 302 and trust it to be pretty safe. But Im not sure whether or not to try the cheap turbos or just go with what I know and spray a 125 or 150 shot on it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Turbos or Nitrous
Seeing that the name brand with the turbos makes you leary, and you've used the juice before, without any problems. Run the nitrous setup until you can get more info and possibly good word from others on the turbo sets...
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I agree with Eddie, you get what ya pay for basically. Don't know about your rotating assembly, but you would want to be foirged and with a lower compression ratio for the turbos. It also is important to have the right pistons as well depending on the boost you run. You probably know that, but turbo's like centrificals, require some better internals for them to be "safe".
As for the juice, I was always very leary of it till I decided to just go for it and have had no regrets. I am about to up mine from 100 to 125 jets. :*drive*:
As for the juice, I was always very leary of it till I decided to just go for it and have had no regrets. I am about to up mine from 100 to 125 jets. :*drive*:
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hold up folks lol. I have been running those turbo's for over 2 years and they put down 325hp on 10psi on my stock sixer with a terrible A/R of 15.1, i know the brand may tell you no but I have loved these things, they spool hella fast (twin 50mm)! but I am going to goto a nice single setup witch i will spend some money on (Precision/ Turbonetics) but for the price you cant go wrong..
1) The only issues I had was that when you manually sping the compressor wheel with your hand, it will stop almost immediatly after letting it go. so in that repect they are not true ball bearing tubro's that provide alot of spin/ clearance inside the housing.
2) oil leak was deturmend to be bad location on my oil lines which was my fault, i have purchased a dry/wet oil pump to fix this so that it throws the oil back in the pan instead of backfeeding into the turbo's
1) The only issues I had was that when you manually sping the compressor wheel with your hand, it will stop almost immediatly after letting it go. so in that repect they are not true ball bearing tubro's that provide alot of spin/ clearance inside the housing.
2) oil leak was deturmend to be bad location on my oil lines which was my fault, i have purchased a dry/wet oil pump to fix this so that it throws the oil back in the pan instead of backfeeding into the turbo's
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My Name: : David
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Re: Turbos or Nitrous
t3/t4's are a bit smallish. usually they are used for 2.0l or less. twinned you are getting outside their boost envelope with 5.0l or larger. 60mm is more like it. 55's also.
billfisher- Small Block 302
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Re: Turbos or Nitrous
i agree!
a) if you cant afford a expensive ass turbo and you want boost! then go for it.
b) save some dough down the road and get a nice kit!
a) if you cant afford a expensive ass turbo and you want boost! then go for it.
b) save some dough down the road and get a nice kit!
FRCE_FED- Admin
- Number of posts : 2450
Age : 38
Humor : spendin money that I don't have to buy parts that I don't need to impress people that I don't know
My Name: : David
My Ride/Rides: : 2000 3.8L Stang, Performance Red
Mods: : Built 3.8l, Custom little 62mm Single Turbo, fox 8.8 rear, TKO500 5speed manual trans, HPX 05 maf, custom tune by myself, and vmp tuning Looking for 550rwh at the wheels! Its just a lil v6
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I would have to fabricate a little bit of tubing, and thats it.I think Im just gonna stay with the nitrous though.
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turbo is definitely the way i will go. i will buy individual components.
turbo
intercooler
pop-off
wastegate/controller
and fabricate all the rest.
turbo
intercooler
pop-off
wastegate/controller
and fabricate all the rest.
billfisher- Small Block 302
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Age : 58
Mods: : before march,28th...93' 4.6 4v ported heads, forgings, turbo, tubular suspension,90/10's, 2900lbs.
Re: Turbos or Nitrous
especially when i put 2.73's on. i will need a major power adder to time anything like i do now.
billfisher- Small Block 302
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Age : 58
Mods: : before march,28th...93' 4.6 4v ported heads, forgings, turbo, tubular suspension,90/10's, 2900lbs.
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