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Old 10-01-2011, 12:20 AM
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Any one have any luck making their own turbo kit? For example getting a turbo off of another car and making everything custom?
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you'd most likely need a shop to help you. There's going to be a decent amount of fabricating the I/c piping, mounting brackets etc. If you know someone who can do all that I guess you could. Labor is just so expensive if you want good work.

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Yea i think i would jusr buy a kit without turbo and manifold. Just the ic pipes and ic itself. Cus my friend is giving me a c20 turbo that came off of a 2JZ twin tuebo supra. So i thinkni would jusr need a manifold to go with it and runn new oil lines
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I can tell where this thread is going. Just do it right the first time, so you dont waste your money doing stupid stuff. Buy stuff made for the car.
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Originally Posted by mudvayne2k6
Any one have any luck making their own turbo kit? For example getting a turbo off of another car and making everything custom?
Sort of. When I started my boost project the only good kit available was from Descendant but they wanted $6250 for it. I bought a CX Racing kit for $1200 instead and after 2 years, $5000 spent and hundreds of hours I have a very nice custom turbo setup.

Today you can simply order a very nice kit from Descendant, FastScions, Treadstone or Ancla and save yourself a lot of time and headaches. Unless you're a skilled fabricator and welder with all the neccessary tools, don't even consider going the custom route.
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