I picked turbo over supercharger just because I have had turbo on my last car and I loved it. HKS powered RSX-S. I have had friends in the past go with superchargers for their cars and than later regreted it cause it was not enough power, or they still had the good old "Turbo Dreams". My car will be a garage queen at some point next year so I might as well give her the best. And come on guy's, at the end of the day after all has been said and done, nothing compares the sound of the blow off valves going off
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Down the road I would like to get in the 700whp club but for now I will be fine with the stage 2 turbos and about 500whp maybe 450whp to be super safe. This will be a 100% street car, I might take it to the d-strip just to get a 1/4 mile time but thats about it. If you are looking for a daily driver, this kit can be just as reliable as a supercharger kit "IF IT IS INSTALLED CORRECTLY" I think Sam can fill you in on this area of the matter.
Like bullitt said, your car is going to be much louder. For me thats a good thing, I want the car to sound mean as hell. These are Garrett turbos made by a company called Honeywell. They are water cooled not oil cooled so there is no worries about adding more heat to the already hot oil our car makes. The Garrett turbos have ball-bareings not bushings so they do not have to be pulled out and rebuilt like the ones in the Greddy kit.
15k-16k is the starting price to get one of these in the car with installation and maybe a few add on parts. But if you are an all-star mech. you can install it your self and save thousands. Then we go back to the install being the most important part to relieability of this kit and of course the tune but with the GTM kit this is already inclueded.
All in all you have to pay to play this game. In my personal opinion turbo is the best if money is not and issue. Dont buy a turbo kit if you cannot get a good installer to perform the install. I will not get into this, I think we all know what could happen with a bad installed kit.
I ran a turbo kit on my Acura RSX-S for over 2 1/2 years with over 60k miles on the kit. I had a waste gate leak, exhaust leak and the need for a slight retune over the time of 2 1/2 years. One of my friends on clubrsx.com bought it from me and its still running good. The total cost to fix was under $1000, did not take anytime to fix the leaks, just took a while to find them
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*******The install is important. Turbo is the $hit -The End-
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