hey everyone i just bought my new lance so now i have a pretty car but i wanna make it a pretty fast car so i wanna start building a custom turbo kit i know it'll be a fun....my only real question so far is can take the existing manifold and just sorta rerout the exaust by runing a pipe from where it would connect to the cat to where i'm going to put the turbo or do i need a turbo manifold and if i do where can i order just the manifol

 

yes....check out the road race turbo...you can get ideas of where the pipes go...just be careful putting your own kit together, as you can blow your piston rings fairly easy, right LINK?????

 

well i don't plan on running anything more than 6psi and hopefully i'll ill have enough for a afc so i think with all that it should be all right on the stock componets it'll just void the hell outta my warrenty

 

Link busted his pistons at 5psi. Just be careful...now his car is out of commision and he is asking waitresses for pistons

 

You can buy an RPW manifold from Vision Imports if you'd like a manifold as well. The problem: they won't be in stock until late feb/early March.

 

and its not an AFC you need...its a fuel pressure regulator and new fuel pump. you gotta run high fuel PSI to get the right amound of fuel. the AFC is jus better for fine tuning. needed...but not needed as much as a FPR and pump.

 

*knods head*

 

just for the record, the car over heated, and the rings melted, there was nothing wrong with my turbo setup.

Link

 

did it over heat from just driving it too hard or didn't you have a intercooler

 

the thermostat filed to open so the car overheated.

Link

 

That blows man, and one word of advise to this fronteers man who plans on building his turbo kit. No offense intended but, you don't sound like you know everything there is to know about what is needed to apply forced induction to increase power so good luck but do your reaserch, and lots of it, and working with people with experience couldn't hurt, god knows I'm scared to build a turbo kit on my own, I would get all the help I could get.

 

i know theres alot more to it that just buying a turbo a manifol and routing the pipes for everything...there alot of little parts that i'll need and what i really need is to find someone around here who has done a custom turbo for a parts list or something so i don't miss a little thing that might be important becase 3900 is a lot i think for a turbo kit and so far the only on i've seen so i think i'd be better off just making my own

 

I would suggest buying the new pistons from RRM they are designed for the extra abuse involved with a turbo set-up.

but that's just my 2 cents good luck to ya

 

there forged pistons right... do you have to resleve the cyliders with them

 

no matter what your going to spend around $3,500 - $4,000 to get everything anyway...thats just the price of all the parts and perfect piping and IC with fuel mods...jus go with a kit man. soo much easier and will save you trouble.

and this is coming from someone that pretty much made his own kit.....me that is. with help from RPW of course