Turbo upgrades

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TeckniX
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If anyone could post a quick listing of common setups of turbo upgrades goign from cheap with highest HP achievable to expensive and highest Hp on stock engine. Basically if anyone saw it I'd like to get a little table kinda like what SuperStreet had in their magazine, giving :-The turbo used, injector size, remaping or not of the ecu, mad used and max hp/bost that can be **safely** obtained.

Thanks for anyone's input.

I guess right now what I think was given was the sr20 t25 upgrade, which bolts up perfect, and only needs the sr20 turbo manifold - but I don't know max boost/hp achievable and on what injectors? So write my young friends!!!


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Most of the same rules that apply to the sr20 apply to the ca. The ca will make a little less power and torque per same setup than the sr since it's down on displacement. You can read the sticky in the sr20 forum to find out more. I'm sure you could get 400 whp on the ca with the stock bottom end, you'd just have to know what you're doing.

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I'm a firm believer that that, "It's all about tuning"

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14psi will max out the inectors with a T25G, but you will hit boost cut WAY before that. The SR T25G will get you to about 240rwhp with supporting mods (@ roughly 14-15psi Note: That will kill the turbo after a while), while the S14-S15 T28 should see you in the 260-275rwhp range (same psi level as T25G), with appropriate mods (a GTi-R T28 will get you about 10 more than that) I have some 460cc injectors that I will be tuning for a T28. Those injectors should be good for the 300hp mark.
Modified by rico05 at 1:10 PM 12/12/2004


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