Product Review: SSAutoChrome Turbo Kit

[PHOENIX]

Please post your personal experiences with this product and the company who built and sold it to you. Pros and Cons will help fellow mr2 owners in the market for this type of product make there purchasing decision. Posting pictures installed in this section would be great.


SSAutoChrome
http://www.ssautochrome.com/level.itml/icOid/1643

- “Super” T3/T4 Turbo Kit
- 45mm turbo race manifold

[bufferdan]

Im curious about this kit... A few things in wondering
1: Can you use the stock exhaust manifold?
2: Is the turbo compressor housing one or two peice?
3: Does it come with the downpipe? If not then where do we get one that works?

[PHOENIX]

1) no, not without an adapter. It does come with "45mm race" exhaust manifold.
2) no idea.
3) no, downpipe is an extra.

Ive heard of 1 person having this actual turbo and he was really happy with it, the manifold however.....some people have had some issues with them.

Here is another pic of the kit

[FooD2000]

Hi, I'm new to MR2's but not to cars in general. I own a 97' acura integra gsr. My friend and I are very interested in purchasing an MR2. I was reasearching a bit a came across the dreadfull SSautochrome kit.

I have a very good link to an indepth review on this product for the B-series (integra engine). I'm sure the low quality of this kit applies to any other car the fabber makes.

http://www.superhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=236746

[PHOENIX]

that is an interesting read, i cant believe they used pvc piping for there intercooler kit, thats rediculous. thanks for that link and an insite on there product.

[FooD2000]

I'm a biased opinion obviously with SSautochrome. There have been success stories of people making 200hp on this kit with proper tunning. The manifold has had some stories of lasting 1-2 years but there's also a few stories of it lasting 3 months. The turbo also leaks overtime.

Basically you roll the die with this kit is my opinion. Worth a try for $900?

[PHOENIX]

no, this is exactly what we need. and as far as there company goes with your explanation....thats how the mr2 community feels too. They make a few products that have been really popular in the past, and others not.

1 thing i would say they need to do is deck there flanges so they are flat. so far thats my only complaint.

[AndrewMcG]

Ive not used this turbo kit but I have built my own turbo kits with some of their items. Their 46mm wastegate worked absolutely flawlessly and held boost right where it was supposed to. I used their 50 trim, .70a/r turbine turbo and used it for 4,000 miles with great power results. 335rwhp@17psi(corrected) on fairly stock Gen3 motor. I sold some other kits and have had none fail yet(this was about 1 year ago). I've had good luck with their stuff but I believe you must be picky about what stuff you buy from them. Not all is good, but Ive done just fine so far.

[ixtlann]

it looks like there usiong a ko style adapter on an other wise oem compatible manifold, but we wont know unless we try, i think they also sell one that doesnt use a ko style adapter but this pics shows one with.

[presure2]

i fixed up a kit, replaced the crappy manifold with a stock manifold, stuck on a tial WG, stainless oil lines, ect, and made 240whp and 270+ ftlbs @ 11.5psi on a customers 5sfe a few month ago.
the adapter is crappy, manifold is junk, and the turbos are questionable ( you can get them all day for 160$ on ebay) but so far, its been very effective on the car i did.

[Sang]

Originally Posted by ixtlann

it looks like there usiong a ko style adapter on an other wise oem compatible manifold, but we wont know unless we try, i think they also sell one that doesnt use a ko style adapter but this pics shows one with.

It's not exactly a "KO style". Technically it would be an "ATS style" adapter since the ebay adapters are 1 piece, not a ported adapter and welding on the wastegate flange.

In either case, the picture, as shown by pheonix, is nothing more than a summation of all the ebay crap out there, rolled into one lump sum for a "kit". It shows the ct26 turbo manifold, the ebay T3 flanged adapter, and probably a turbo they had lying around somewhere. Also keep in mind that those adapter are a POS and causes serious interference issues on a gen2 block's oiling system. The wastegate lies almost directly over the oil cooler. There's only ONE person that I know of that took the time to make one work. He ended having to make a couple U-bends in the piping just to clear the filter...With all that work, you'd be better of welding two flanges together, porting the stock exhaust manifold between both tunnels and welding a Tial flange onto that. Or buying one of ATS's or Berk's off the shelf adapter plates for turbos using a T3 footprint.