I had the HKS turbo kit on my old RSX-S and loved it. HKS Turbos are Garrett turbos for the note! I have the HKS BOV's on my 370z right now and I love them! :)

the dual intercoolers just sound cool to say lol

I wanna hear them with a 6th to 3rd downshift.

Once both me and JB get our cars back I think we have a few plans to get some great videos up. I know JB has been itching for a reason to buy that HD Pro camera system (forget its name), and I might buy one also. :tup:

Oh, thank God...
 

This is the kit I've been waiting for. Not just because it's HKS either, but because it has a nearly identical layout to the AAM kit, which as all these TT kits goes is the most efficient/shortest piped. I think that separating the bottom to top flow intercoolers (ala R35 if I'm not mistaken) is also great from not only a functional standpoint, but also from an aesthetic standpoint. The AAM intercooler looks a little funky around the top intercooler caps in the middle. No offense to AAM; they make great products, I just like this one a little more and HKS may actually sell one to me.

I would be interested to know a little more about these turbos. Are these the disco potatoes (or descendants from)? I think of our cars as not a 3.7L engine but two banks of 1.35L engines, and almost all the turbos on offer you wouldn't dream of putting on a 1.3L three cylinder engine and expect it to have the kind of street characteristics I'm looking for.

This is very nice to see. Glad that more turbo options may be coming for 370.

OT: Their BOVs sound so nice. Almost makes me want to pull my turbo kit off the shelf and put it back on my rsx!

hks turbos are not garret turbos they are manurfactured at garret to hks specs the front and rear shells are higher quality in casting alot smoother and opened up than garrent and wheels/ blades are different shape and pitch to what hks design spec. hks turbos are SO much lighter in weight iv held a garret to4z and a hks to4z and the hks felt half the garrets weight there was soooo much in design difference the only thing in common was the sizing of wheels in my case was 67mm anyways alot of people say there the same but untill you see whith you own to eyes they are definitly not the same. i guess if you were building a car for out right speed and power to weight you could easily save weight here

you've missed 1L of displacement :P, 1.85L per side. having said that, this is also across 3 cylinders and not 4, but I know where you are coming from.

You still want a turbo that can be efficient at higher RPM to take advantage of the engine though, no point putting too small of a turbo into a kit which runs out of efficiency at 5500RPM for eg stock CA18/SR20 turbo's.

on topic of kit - what kind of RPM are you expecting to hit full boost by with this kit? any expected upgrade path of stages for slightly higher or lower HP applications?

Yeah, don't know what I was thinking, 1.85. But I did say 3, not 4 cylinders.

I come from a DSM background, so I am not new to turbocharged engines at all. I can get as technical as you want if that will help this discussion.

That being said, a certain power level corresponds to a certain airflow rate. Thinking of the VQ37 with twin turbos as two 1.85L engines with their individual turbos is a great place to start. If your goal is say somewhere in the 500 whp range (550-600 crank), then you only need a turbo capable of flowing efficiently at the given boost level at half the CFM to support this goal. Considering the lower boost levels run on a high compression engine like the VQ, a big T28, or even a 16g (again, coming from a DSM background) could conceivably reach those goals and have drastically better manners on the street. People get too obsessed with big turbos that could flow enough air to make 500+ each and they don't really understand what they are giving up by selecting a good turbo.

Too large a turbo mean you will never really be operating within the ideal area of the compressor map just as much as turbo that is too small, leading to excessive lag on the low end where smaller turbos run out of steam up top. All you need is a turbo that produce maybe 7-9psi max efficiently to a 1.85L three cylinder to 7500K.

Let me know if there is real interest in this discussion and I'll start looking for compressor maps, but otherwise I'd just be screaming in the wind. Also, if you want, start a new thread and PM me so we can publicly discuss what would be the ideal street kit for our cars.

Don't get me wrong, if this kit were to come out, I'd be one of the first in line, although I may make a few calls to get a better turbo match if they go the 'bigger is better' route.

Just checked and the GT-RS by HKS is actually bigger than the GT28RS by Garret that I thought this was. The Garret would be a better match. HKS doesn't use Garret turbos, the naming convention is similar, hence the confusion everyone has.

You want something that is in it's efficient range around about a 1.4-1.6 pressure ratio as it sweeps up to enough CFM to support about 300 horsepower (about 33 lb/min of airflow). That would get you to the mid 400s at the wheels with the best street manners on each bank of three cylinders. The GT-RS supports about 400hp (400ps actually). That's about a 33% increase in capability that isn't utilized and only serves to create lag where a smaller turbo may server better in its place.

I understand that there is more at play and that the theoretical is when these turbos are pumping as much air as possible, etc etc. All of these turbos are more efficient at higher boost levels anyhow, but some are a better match for a stock VQ37 than others.

Here's some statistics on these turbos:

HKS GT-RS
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400 PS Output
COMPRESSOR:
-Wheel- 52 Trim - 51.2 Inducer / 71.1 Major
-Housing- 60 Inlet / 50 Outlet - 0.60 A/R
TURBINE:
-Wheel- 76 Trim - 53.8 Major / 47.0 Exducer
-Housing- GT25 inlet / Internal GT25 outlet; 0.64 A/R

A close Garrett would be the GT2871R.

I went to the Garrett site, since they have compressor maps and HKS doesn't :rolleyes: Any way, they have tons of information on these turbos if you are really interested. I could go through these, but I'm really tired.

TurboByGarrett.com - Turbochargers

Great post, and info +1

Just checked and the GReddy kit, which makes a claimed 450rwp at 5.8psi utilizing two TD06-20G turbos. I bet there is more power under the curve with those as well, as the boost comes almost surely comes on faster and lower in the rpm range. I just really hate GReddy's plumbing.

If HKS were to come out with this and I were able to be a little picky with the turbos, I would jump on this and the CAMP2 interface, since it works with the F-CON tuning system.

BUMP for some updates:driving:

What about the greddys bushings instead of ballbearing, that kinda sucks. Also 20Gs are super old in design.