Turbo Kit.

[LAFENATU]

no the makers of the kit he posted.

I would be weary about eBay kits...make sure the kit is 100%.

 

[Venom351R]

that kit looks cheap and cheasy as hell. Id almost guarantee that the quality and fitment sucks on it.


Unless your buying used your not going to find a great deal on a power adder as far as it being new. Expect to spend $3,000 for a supercharger/turbo set up if your looking for quality.

 

[Crone]

I have a friend that bought a turbo kit off ebay, came with just about the same things, and it blew after he ran it for about three months. The exaust wheel blew apart at 14psi. :angry7: You deffinatly get what you pay for. You would probaly be better off peicing it together yourself. Bewtween craigslist and ebay you could probaly get alot of nice good condition quality used parts pretty cheap. It was on a 240 though not a mustang, but still it was tuned in by a shop, so it wasn't poor tuning that blew it.

14 psi, is not a low boost setting by any standard, im sure if you use a lot of these kits within a respectable range8-10 psi they will hold up decently. Again you get what you pay for, you cant expect to pay 2k for a brand new kit and make 600hp on 18-20 psi.... even if they advertise that the kit can do it.

No it's not that low, but the car was fully tuned in, you would expect it to hold up a little better. The turbo was brand new and had zero shaft play. His motor was built too, low compression pistons, forged rods, all the goodies lol, so he could handle the boost, it could have even been a faulty turbo, but just puttin it out there, hate to see someone go through all that work, then still have to buy more parts and do it again.

 

[El_Diablo]

doesn't matter how well the motor was built or how well it was tuned, the turbo wont care, it still has to see the same speeds no matter how much tuning to make that kind of boost, did he ever see any surge? any boost creep or spikes? I would be willing to guess that somehow he either heated up the turbo to where it developed a crack or it was already faulty, or he had a problem with his plumbing causing harm to the turbo (such as surge or a spike)

 

[Crone]

I know in the begining he was have problems with boost creep, but it only spiked 1-2 pounds. He eventually got it worked out. I was leaning to it being faulty too :dontknow:. He only had it oil cooled though too. I don't think he ever hooked up the antifreeze lines, but he could have eventually, I have'nt talked to him for a while. Most people told him he'd be fine just oil cooled. I don't think he had any surging problems either. He had a turbo timer too, so the turbo always had a chance to cool down

 

[El_Diablo]

if the turbo was meant to be oil and water cooled you better be doing so, its built that way for a reason

 

[dannys95gt]

damn.. thanks for all this discussion guys. its deffinetly aiding in my decision making when it comes to buying either a turbo or supercharger....

 

[Crone]

lol yea thats what i kinda was thinking, but alot of people told him that if he ran a turbo timer he would be okay, I'm guessing the antifreeze keeps flowing after the engine is shut off?? I'm not exactly sure how it works lol. I had a probe that was turbo, and mine was was both liquid and oil cooled, it ran on 14lbs no problem. But I also let it cool each time and warm up before i got on it :dontknow:

 

[fastgtfairlane]

the jan 09 issue of mmff has a 5.0 turbo build. the dec 09 issue has a guide on turbo kits and what to look for. look on the muscle mustang and fast ford website

 

[MikeF]

i have a friend he got a turbo off a 99 ford put that on himself made 440hp everything else stock.im with the guy who said he thinking of selling my v1 for a turbo.but then again think i will get intercooler and try 12# boost instead of th 10 its on now or maybe just hook up my nx kit as aftercooler yes thans my project today thanks for the motivation turbo guys lol