i have an 05 auto xa and have been wanting to go turbo for too long now. i have a chance to get a greddy xb kit for dirt cheap from a friend of mines. the kit is non intercooled and i plan to add a front mount later on down the line, but my question is whether or not i can make it work. anyone have any experience with this? please let me know because i only have a few days to make up my mind. thanks in advance.

 

sure you can make the kit work without the intercooler you will need to run low boost so you dont detinate the motor and you and you might wanna look into a trans cooler since you got a auto and keep the engine rich=safe

 

yes it will work, I have the same kit on mine. Plan on getting the exhaust worked on as the downpipe will not fit to the oem exhaust flange because it is a JDM kit

 

well, my main worry was getting the kit to work with an auto, but i guess it should work. i might be boosting within the next few weeks if uncle sam will hurry up and give me my loot.

 

tell me where u get the kit from, i also too want to get turbo for my "AUTO xA", tell me what else i need to get it to work on my auto xA, much THanx

 

putting a turbo on an auto is kind of a waste

unless theres a way to remap your shift points

you'll get more power out of a stick due to the fact you can control yoru shift points

 

thats an extremely naive statement...have you ever boosted an auto 1nz? I have and I can completely disagree with that statement...sorry but your 100% wrong here

 

ummm i dont think i am

any stick is fast then any auto

non turbo or not

they rev higher through the gears

but i guess you know everything

 

im not disagreeing with you about the fact that the auto will put down less power than the stick but why would you go about saying that its completely not worth it to boost an auto? Thats where I am disagreeing with you.

 

because its really not

you cant spool and launch in a auto for one thing

you cant keep the revs up in turns to keep the turbo spooling in an auto

theres a bunch more reasons to why a turbo should not be on a auto, the main reason is people do not know how to drive sticks

 

the quickest street cars out there are automatic

 

look at the Supra's

 

uhhh supras came with a Borg-Warner 6-speed manual transmission and the option of a 5-speed automatic.

i highly doubt the the auto is faster the the stick

with an auto your not in control of the car, a machine is

the machine chooses when to shift and at what point

by choosing an auto, you lose the ability to boost launch as well as the ability to hold boost and spool why shifiting

now you can say if you had an auto with a misfire kit then yes you can keep the turbo spooling all the time

but stick or auto its not even worth to bost the engine becasue you not getting a lot of power anyway becasue if im not mistaken our engines are to high compression

you better off to swap a JDM BEAMS motor in and go with an ITB setup

 

well, if i wanna turbo my car to make it a little more fun to drive, then it's worth it to me. and for your info, this is my first auto car. i got tired of having to shift in traffic all the time. don't make assumptions about people who drive autos.

 

ever heard of a stall converter or trans brake?? go look up the fastest street supras. I guarentee you the autos are faster

 

stock that is correct though, auto is slower stock, but the quickest Supras out there are automatic

 

the only time an auto is faster then a stick is when your have so much HP that a clutch cant take it anymore and you need something the take the shock back from the shift

other then that the choice is stick

and were not talking about supras were talking about the XA so this is pointless

but whatever you know more then me so im done posting in this thread

 

I can see your point on xa's but dont think that they are slow cuz they are auto.... auto stays in boost when you floor it there is no boost drop between shifts(only stick car that can do it is a stage 1,2,3 srt-4 that I know of and you have to wot shift it) as for any other car. I will take an auto on a drag car thats why they use auto and not manual.... there is no way you can shift like a manual valve body on an auto..... I had a stage 2 shift kit on my old muscle car and there is no way I or anyone I know could shift that fast. As for boosting at the line its easier for an auto.... Its called trans break and stall converter.

 

Same with skylines. Just thought I would add that lol

 

News to me.... The weird thing is, people run the same ammount of HP in Supra's - Stick or Auto... Sad thing is, people run Auto's more so because it's an easy way to keep the car in competition. It's more consistant. Thats why most Supra's for example are lows 9's and even 8's and are ALL auto... with the occasional Supra's in the 9's that are stick. It takes away driver error...