Kit Power Curves
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matt0941
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Kit Power Curves
I am still undecided as to which turbo kit I should go with. I want something with some beef in it but am aware that I could be striken with jolts in my driving. What I am getting it is: What kits have you guys had experience with that are moderate to decent in size for the KA24DE and how would you rate them for power and daily driving. Yes yes I searched.
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bruinbear714
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Re: Kit Power Curves
matt0941 wrote:I am still undecided as to which turbo kit I should go with. I want something with some beef in it but am aware that I could be striken with jolts in my driving. What I am getting it is: What kits have you guys had experience with that are moderate to decent in size for the KA24DE and how would you rate them for power and daily driving. Yes yes I searched.
Well, I personally have seen the XS engineering turbo kit and the Fmax turbo kit. I didn't like the XS engineering kit due to the excessive length of intercooler piping (the hot pipe ran down the driver's fender through a fmic, cold side went back to the driver's side fender, up and across the radiator to the intake).
The guy I talked to with the FMAX kit ran 10psi on his daily driver and has put over 50,000 miles with that kit.
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I'm not entirely fond of XS's pipe set-up either. And I have that kit. But Nsport's kit is routed similarly to the Fmax kit. So if you still want a T04 based kit, you can opt for that. Fmax no longer provides the JWT set-up with their kits, so if you wanted to do that, you'ld have to buy it separately anyways, so I would choose based on the kit itself. I will say though that the longer pipes will only have a very small difference in response. Probably not even noticible. Even a small turbo will fill the volume of about 3 feet of additional tubing quite quickly. The differences in the turbos offered in the Fmax vs XS/NSport will make more of a difference than the piping.