millhouse
Founding Member
Adi said:To do a single turbo indeed you need a bigger one, I have a buddy that went to a scraper picked up a turbo off diesel truck WITH an internal wastegate. With that said the rest of the math falls into place. I don’t really agree with doing stuff like that because usually it ends up half fast (do to lack of knowledge not always its just my opinion so no quoting on that! now on the other hand I did go to http://www.turbomustangs.com/turbokitpage.php and i saw a cheap kit there 2k for a single turbo setup, the target hp was 400 with a max of 900 very respectable numbers and for 2k (your intercooler is going to end up being more then half the price of that) I cant see how you can go wrong. Now if you look at the rest of the kits, look at the price, and what you’re getting out of it, the single turbo setups are ahead for the most part. The first post I was trying more or less to get the point across that the single turbo setups are better for VERY high hp numbers, ass you can see the kit for 10k there is a point where if you want to make power you gotta pay to play and that is defiantly in that category. But according to the information given it might b better all around as well (that’s more or less an opinion once again) but the twin turbo set ups are still cool and very respectable. That's my explination i think i did a good job at it.
So all in all I believe you just got by the newbie
Perhaps you should do a bit more research yourself.
The $2k for the single setup does not include the turbo, nor does it include injectors maf etc.
Now, as far as price goes I will agree that new kits are generally more expensive in a twin setup than for a single. More than anything else is the cost of two brand new head units and perhaps a two into one intercooler.
As far as a DIY setup goes...the twin setup is hard to beat. There are an abundance of turbo's with wastegates for the twin setup. There are quite a few more options to be had as well.
I'd say generally a twin setup is cheaper to build than a single for your DIY'er.
The turbo's are cheaper and usually include working wastegates. The extra cost of plumbing for the twins is minimal. More often than not, your singles will need a quality wastegate wish adds some $$$.