Originally posted by sr20racer
For those of you that think you must have a JWT ECU to run a bolt on turbo on your car you don't, so don't try to tell me you do. It is ideal if you do but that can always later. A guy is running a BBDET(without a JWT ECU) in a NX on the SR20 forum and he said it runs good.
If he's got the BBDET engine, he might have used the ecu from the original engine, that's why he did not use the JWT ecu. If you have your ordinairy se-r and you want to throw a turbo on there, I can promise you you have to have the ecu. So unless you're buying a whole new engine with ecu, you don't have a choice you have to add the JWT ecu onto your price list. BTW, it's "runs WELL...."
Hey, sr20racer, recursive links tell me nothing. Try that again, this time pointing to the proper post.
Actually, don't bother. I've been on the SE-R mailing list for four years, and not one turbo install described there ever ran with only a thousand bucks thrown at it. There are a lot of expensive details not originally forseen. Strange that none of the turbo installs I've read about used a NISMO down-pipe. I would presume on that evidence that it WON'T WORK in the B13-B15 series. Also, any turbo you bought for three hundred bucks will need a rebuild, so triple that price.
You need to ACTUALLY DO IT FOR THE PRICE YOU QUOTE. You pull that off, you get my $100 dollars. Receipts on demand, of course.
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Originally posted by bahearn Also, any turbo you bought for three hundred bucks will need a rebuild, so triple that price.
I don't agree with that statement, but I do agree that putting together a turbo kit for 1000 or under is extremely difficult. Even with a 300 dollar turbo (without a rebuild), you still have tons of other parts to buy, and don't discount costs like shipping. And like I said before the ecu is mandatory unless you already have a BB engine. I don't think there is a given price for a turbo kit, depends on whether you want to pay someone for their kit or you're resourceful enough to put together one on your own, but I don't think it will cost under 1000 bucks either way...
alright now chill out!! LOL.. just be glad we are not all driving civics with apc decals and lighted windshield sprayers with our pep boy chrome (i mean plastic) hub caps... am i right?
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alright now chill out!! LOL.. just be glad we are not all driving civics with apc decals and lighted windshield sprayers with our pep boy chrome (i mean plastic) hub caps... am i right?
OK Bahearn check out Matt Dehavens turbo'd classic. I have not spoke to him personally but look on the SE-R.net and look for his project car. I am sick of arguing with 5 different guys. So I think I do it for cheap and nobody else does so there it is. Peace.
this has been one of the most entertaining rants i've ever read. SR20s suck. Real enthusiasts buy lawnmower motors and tune them up to 50hp. THEN they put them in their car. If anyone out there has a 1 liter GA doing 150hp, I'd be more interested in finding out how to do that than anything else.
I've been trying to figure a price for a turbo, and it seems like you COULD get a set-up done for under a thousand, with a surplus turbo and some cheap shop fabricated parts, or surplus stuff off of old 1.8 Nissan engines, but it would run ragged as hell, and would probably be bad for your car, as well. You would definitely need some timing and ECU adjustments, and that alone would push it over the edge, unless you're already running a sports-tuned motor.
Originally posted by niky this has been one of the most entertaining rants i've ever read. SR20s suck. Real enthusiasts buy lawnmower motors and tune them up to 50hp. THEN they put them in their car. If anyone out there has a 1 liter GA doing 150hp, I'd be more interested in finding out how to do that than anything else.
First of all, nobody said SR20's suck, I just said it was my opinion that some SR20 owners were thinking way too much of themselves and their cars. Second of all, where the hell are you going to find a 1 liter GA? You really need to pay attention, you're just making this stuff up as you go along. Show me where in this thread anyone said anything even remotely close to :
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Real enthusiasts buy lawnmower motors and tune them up to 50hp.
Wasent this post about ram air? The original question has been answered. Lets leave all of this $1000 turbo set-up stuff for the forced induction section. We dont need any bickering going on. If you want to debate about how much it costs to go turbo, dont do it here. One more thing I think we have seen enough of the GA vs. SR debate. At this point debating it anymore is just a waste of spacee.
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I shall call him...Mini-Me
Actually, i DO KNOW that there is no 1 liter GA. i do know FOR A FACT, though, that the range extends from GA20 (really old engine, never meant for the American market, on some Asian Maximas) down to GA13. I should know, I actually have one of those crappy motors!
What I meant was, it's weird how people think you need a bigger engine to have big performance and big fun. Modding up pathetic rice burners and making them run like real cars seems to me to be a bigger achievement than fixing up an engine-chassis combo that was meant to be modded.
Besides, when I was talking about rant, I meant the other guy.
the Ram Air thing will probably not work, but i have like no real proof it will not. all i know is i like my hoodscoop and my B13 likes the CAI. http://www.angelfire.com/empire/se-r/ Do whatever you want to your car because it is your car!!!! a lil rice never hurt anyone
jr
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Not to be confused with the $29.00 crap sold on ebay;
those are RV exhaust fan motors. They destruct and
the engine will inhale them....
This, however is the real deal. An optimised sr20, 91-93
high port is a breather... The hot shot exhaust and PR-CAI
Do wonders for a motor begging to breathe...
Do'nt take my word, ask around; then go here.....
hey sr20racer i know its already dropped but i just wanna say this...any idiot can buy a good car from the lot but its not about that... to me its about putting your heart and soul into a car you prefer to work on....and also if you think your soo above everyone else then why dont you have a chat with the pulsar gti-r guys then and talk the way you want to them and see how above you really are!!!
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