>If I go with the F-Max kit, I can get the kit for $4k, then upgrade the
>pistons, fuel pump, buy lots of stuff for the rest of the fuel
>management system, and (God forbid) I have to have someone install the
>turbo for me, I could drive the price of the turbo well over the $6k
>mark easily......for only 50 more whp than the SC.....
>
>Now does everyone see why I have been pursueing this issue so hard? I
>would think that you could get someone to install the SC for a couple
>hundred dollars, and that would still only bring the cost to about
>$2800. Hell, call it an even $3k, you're still paying HALF what the
>turbo would cost......for only 50 more hp than the SC.
Not to mention that an F-Max kit has produced as much as 392 whp on a stock
motor, vs 150 whp for the supercharger, then you notice why there is a price
difference. You are paying $2000 more for HALF the hp, not 50 more hp. The
base $4000 F-Max kit, loafing on pump gas at 10 psi makes a little more than
240 whp, with water injection, 290 hp is posible, with race gas, 310 is
posible, with a little more laggy but still perfectly streetable turbo 392
hp, with a built bottom end with forged low compression pistons, 460 hp,
with a turbo that is still streetable, with rods and headwork with cams, 500
hp with a basic streetable turbo kit.
A stage 2 F-MAX kit is capable of running close to 10 flat, making 500 whp
for $6000, forged pistons, crower rods and a DPR head. This is about the
cheapest way to build a 10 second car I have ever seen with all off the
shelf parts. No supercharged Quick class Import has ever gotten past the
12's yet. JR's civic cannot even qualify for the quick 16.
If you cannot put on a turbo kit, then you will have to pay labor for
installing a supercharger kit also.
A Eaton powered GA will have about the same feel as an SR20 with the bolt
ons which is not such a bad thing. With proper engine managament and about
9 psi of boost with different pulleys, it has the pontential for about
160-180 whp but figure adding about $1000 more dollars to the price of the
kit for ECU and injectors. It will be nice feeling hp though. Oh yeah, you
better figure on adding the cost of a fuel pump to the price of the basic
kit because the stock Nissan pump dead heads at about 65 psi or so and to
get enough fuel via an FMU, you are going to need 80 psi because the GA has
only enough fuel for about 150 whp through the injectors.
When we are done with the Hotshot GA16 turbo kit, it will eat that
supercharger for lunch if it ever gets done.
Mike
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