Buying parts seperate vs. OTS kits.


Kozy

Kozy

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I have been toying with the idea of boosting my B16A2, and have searched for the following but found no answers. (I am interested only in the bolt on kit, not the engine internals as I have a good idea about that side already.)

I would prefer to build my own kit rather than buy an OTS kit, so say I have a charger, ECU and manifold already, where can I ge the rest of the bolt on kit individually, and what exactly is needed? Is there already a kit that caters for this, just the pipework and fittings side? I am not going high pressure mental WHP build, probably looking at under 200WHP, any more would only hinder me at autocross. I guess I am looking at about 5-6psi for this output, would an intercooler be required?
 
Whoops, turbo. :D

There seems to be so many 'universal' intercooler/oil feed/boost pipe kits and the like, but I gather none of these actually fit perfectly? I am not really interested in modifying stuff to fit as it increases downtime which I cannot afford.

I have seen some full kits going for good money over in the US, stuff like the Revhard kits going for about £1000/$1600, would one of these be a safe bet? Obviously no cheapo ebay rubbish though...
 
revhard sucks BIG TIME!! I used to be there dealer when i was working in parts sales, drag also sucks for that matter.

If you want a complete kit, edelbrock is the way to go.

If your going to piece one together thats fine. Pick an EMS/fuel setup/manifold/turbo/intercooler core and have all the piping fabbed up.
 
OK, I'll look into it, sounds straightforward enough!
 
buy cheap buy twice, one thing i learnt with the starlet, was so many cheapo manifolds out there etc which cracked a couple of months down the line.
 
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