How much money do i gots to spend?
 

Great site guys!

Ok, i'm new to the whole turbo thing and i'm wondering what kind of money you are putting into your turbo setups?

Also, i'm on a small budget and would like to turbo my d16y7 eventually. What should i expect to fork out to get me blown or my car blown that is...haha. I know these are total n00b questions and everybody has a different setup, but how much money will i need to get me started?

Thanks

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

$700-800 is the average for a full kit, you can get it cheaper if your smart or build it yourself. My twin turbo kit cost me $350 8)

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

some people spend $300 some people spend $1000. it depends on where you can get your ---- from, and if you do everything yourself, and how elaborate you wanna do things.
manifolds, size/type of turbo, oil lines, fuel management...etc...

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

Cost me $1300, but that's with CCA FMIC, and some other nice stuff. You can build it for $800, but you can tell that's it's an 800 set up, you want it to look nice and not used Home depot EVERYTHING, expect closer to $1000-1200. Also depend on how much time you got. I spent 6 months waiting for good deals to come around. little by little

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

Mine took closer to 8 months. I haven't added up the price yet, but little clamps and nuts and bolts can really add up.

If you can't weld or tune properly, your cost will be a bit higher. I ended up paying about $400 for a downpipe, some miscellaneous welding (Oil return & BOV) and 3 hours of street tuning. That also included A LOT of help trying to get my oil return kit to flow properly.

Worth every penny though.

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

mine took a year to gather up parts cause i was dry on money $2,600 cost w/clutch and welding pipes and custom manifold labor.

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

i spent about 400 on my first setup...but this next turbo its gonna be a bomb setup......i think about another month it will be all good

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

lets see..

$50 for T-bird turboo ( pulled myself from the yard)
HF manif ( free thanks Whiterice)
Adapter plater(free)
Down Pipe ( free thanks --------)
Charge pipes ( free WhiteRice)
Volvo BOV ( free Whiterice)
390cc injectors $28
AFC $80
SMIC ( free whiterice )
working on my PM6 for turbo edit...cost ( free )

so i spent like$170 plus other stupid ----...

ill eventually get a FMIC $200
and soome better charge pipes!

so it can roughly cost you about $400-700

my advice buy things one at a time and if you give it a good 3-5 months you should have evrything you need

my.02

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

it's cool to do a super cheap set up. i could've done mine
a year before i actually did it if i would've used an FMU which i already had but sold later and a dsm side mount intercooler which i still have. i went with dsm 450s' front mount and a vafc. i started buying crap without doing too much research on this setup.

Re:How much money do i gots to spend?
 

i spent about 2gs on,a brand new turbo, hondata, FMIC, flywheel, clutch, skunk2 intake mani, etc etc...
then i sold it for 2gs minus the flywheel/clutch/skunk2intake mani :-X