$3500 Edelbrock turbo kit
11-02-2003, 11:52 PM
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$3500 Edelbrock turbo kit
I just read the article in Sport Compact Car about the new Edelbrock Performer X turbo kit that cost $3500. First of all the article said it was great. Then they start talking about how the instructions where confusing and they wound up putting the oil return in the wrong spot on the oil pan. The oil return line doesn't fit right and the wiring diagram is wrong so you can't wire the extra injector control unit. After they finally got it instaled (three days later) they take it on its first test drive and blow a rod threw the block. The new turbo has a bad waste gate actuator and the thing hits twenty PSI on its first pass.
I have to ask myself, if this is what they send to a major magazine for a test article what can the average guy on the street expect to get? This just proves what we all know already, build your own system the HMT way and do it right for less money. I dont know how many cars I have turboed with junk yard turbos and used injectors and I have never blown one up on the first run.
OK there was that one Saturn but it was a 200,000 mile used engine with no fuel management and it still lasted three runs so I don,t think that should count.
I have to ask myself, if this is what they send to a major magazine for a test article what can the average guy on the street expect to get? This just proves what we all know already, build your own system the HMT way and do it right for less money. I dont know how many cars I have turboed with junk yard turbos and used injectors and I have never blown one up on the first run.
OK there was that one Saturn but it was a 200,000 mile used engine with no fuel management and it still lasted three runs so I don,t think that should count.
11-02-2003, 11:57 PM
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Re:$3500 Edelbrock turbo kit
Whoa.. I need to read that article! I thought that kit looked pretty impressive for a D-series, came with all the trick stuff, but ofcourse since JG/Edlebrock makes it, its going to be bank and the fact that SCC installed it, and blew it up... Well that doesnt suprise me I guess, but hey, I blew mine up on my first try 
Jeff
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11-03-2003, 12:41 AM
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Re:$3500 Edelbrock turbo kit
Wow, I didn't know that SCC were that ------- stupid. At what point did they realize that they were running 10psi more than they were supposed to? Usually on the first run you have your eye on the boost gauge but maybe they thought it was supposed to run 20psi. Its a sad day when backyard builders are smarter than the "professionals"
