Lets discuss this $1300 twin turbo kit.

[LaserSVT]

I realize from time to time someone throws a thread up about some cheap ass ebay turbo kit but this one really caught my eye. It has everything including a radiator, oil catch, oil cooler, intercooler, waste gate, BOV, twin turbos etc etc

I know the turbos are tiny but isnt all the piping and cooling stuff woth way more then $1300? Seems you could sell off the little turbos to some Honda kid for a few hundred and get yourself a decient set of snails.

It seems that the guys who want big power but only have a $1500 budget for some heads or a plenum would be all over this.

Here it it: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MUST...1325620440657&adgroup_id=15075229514336347005

 

[tannerc91gt]

You get what you pay for

 

[90lxcoupe]

to me that kit seems pretty worthless, you could get a set of used BBK headers for 50 bucks, weld v-bands on them and just make your own kit, with better piping and a bigger intercooler. or even get a B&G hotside kit and i still think your ahead of the game. If you buy that kit, sell the turbos, and buy better turbos your gonna be into it for 1800-3000 depending on what turbos you buy.

if you pay 1300 for a turbo kit, its gonna fit like a 1300 dollar turbo kit.

and do u notice how they dont even have an installed pic there?

 

[BK_CAULEY]

no merge pipe for the cold side and thats a single in single out intercooler. i see that working well. most good setups will at least have a dual in single out ic.

 

[90mustangGT]

Well it doesn't look too bad but by the time all is said and done would you be just better off and buying a known quality complete kit? That is the question.

Does anyone have $1300, about a week off from work, a sense of adventure and a nack for troubleshooting and fabrication and a bottle of excedrin migrain?

 

[Makdaddymac]

"Does anyone have $1300, about a week off from work, a sense of adventure and a nack for troubleshooting and fabrication and a bottle of excedrin migrain?"

no but if someone did theyw ould have a twin turbo 5.0 for roughly 1500 bucks and then we would all be next in line........i really wish some rich ol car genius would just waste their money on one of these kits make it work. see how much hp it put down etc etc...(i do understand it would not last long but oh well)

 

[90lxcoupe]

LETS GET SERIOUS HERE... ITS A FREAKING EBAY TURBO KIT

 

[Shaolin Crane]

some guys over on the turbo mustangs forums installed them with some pretty good results, sure the turbos took a **** sooner than decent ones but they swapped them out and now are putting down some decent number, seems the issue with the kits is the routing of the piping

 

[1991notchbackLX]

The material the kit is fabricated out of is the real issue, combined with the fitment problems. Cheap 304 stainless is prone to cracking after a few heat cycles, and those ebay kits are notorious for having to be re-welded constantly to keep them together. Mild steel or at the very least 321 stainless is what you want hot side plumbing to be made of. Those turbos are cheap knockoff chinese turbos. When you consider the precision engineering that goes into an exhaust driven turbine and the close tolerances involved to allow it to spin at tens of thousands of RPM, all the while withstanding heat cycling in excess of +/-1000 degrees, which would you choose?

 

[LaserSVT]

no merge pipe for the cold side and thats a single in single out intercooler. i see that working well. most good setups will at least have a dual in single out ic.

Good point mang.
Where the hell is the merge at?

 

[josh072692]

I am thinking about actually trying this kit that I found on ebay by On3 Performance. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1986-1993-Mustang-5-0-Single-Turbo-Kit-Foxbody-86-93_W0QQitemZ140346253123QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item20ad49df43&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245
I have been looking around and this kit has actually worked pretty well for people and I think that's the only ebay turbo kit I have seen with a pic of it actually installed. The hotside uses mild steel so that it wont crack like the 304, and then the cold side uses the 304.

 

[5.0Droptop]

Turboz

 

[LaserSVT]

I am thinking about actually trying this kit that I found on ebay by On3 Performance. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1986-1993-Mustang-5-0-Single-Turbo-Kit-Foxbody-86-93_W0QQitemZ140346253123QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item20ad49df43&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245
I have been looking around and this kit has actually worked pretty well for people and I think that's the only ebay turbo kit I have seen with a pic of it actually installed. The hotside uses mild steel so that it wont crack like the 304, and then the cold side uses the 304.

I have seen their SN kit on a few Mustangs and they all went well. Couple guys were having issues with their K-member. One bought the wrong K-member and the other guy had bad engine mounts. Other then that they bolted up well and made good power.

 

[BK_CAULEY]

Good point mang.
Where the hell is the merge at?

and im not seeing any down pipes either. you know how much thats gonna cost to have a shop make and weld o2 bungs in. hell those turbines look like the have a barreled discharge. what do they expect you to do use silicone couplers to hold the down pipes on???

 

[1991notchbackLX]

The kit does not come with downpipes at all. FWIW, On3Performance used to make their kits out of 304 stainless, and the forums were LITTERED with horror story threads about fitment and cracking. On3 now offers the same kit in mild steel, and there are a lot of guys running them and making good power nowadays. However, none of those kits have been installed long enough to tell how they hold up after extended usage.

Unfortunately, some people just can't figure out why not to spend $1300 and have 6 months to a year worth of headaches instead of just paying for a real kit and having peace of mind. "There's never enough money to do it right but there's always enough money to do it over."

 

[mob]

You can use use pretty much everything but the turbo. Ebay turbos are so cheap they will shread to pieces within a few miles. The amount of money you are spending to just use the kit and scrap the turbo is ridiculous, you could piece together your own pipes, intercooler, and bov/wastegate for a lot cheaper.

 

[bentley429isBAC]

Looks like a nice kit, for me to poop on.

 

[5.0Droptop]

*sniff sniff... whats that smell*

 

[bentley429isBAC]

*sniff sniff... whats that smell*

That would be the dump I applied to the really sweet ebay turbo kit of course

 

[Mr. Rustypwnz]

the on3 kit is not bad if you get the master power upgrade. id buy one. they seem to know what their doing.