3SGTE: ssautochrome t3/t4 any good?

[Adrians89MR2SC]

i dont know man .. im gonna buy that kit ..

you definitly cannot beat that kit for $400 .. he didnt even rev it up much and it spools right up and feels awsome ..

even if the manifold cracks .. WELD IT and brace the turbo ..

if the turbo blows up, buy a new one on ebay .. $200 new is alot cheaper than a ct26 ($500)

if the wastegate is crap .. get a good one ..$100 at most ..

dont know how a downpipe could go wrong ..

im not going to use the BOV since mine works just fine .. so i dont see anything wrong with this kit ..

im ordering it right now, so ill let yall know how it goes when it gets here .. if its anything like mr2gq's then ill be happy ...

even with replacing the turbo and wastegate with a new one .. and fixing the manifold if the welds brake .. it still doesnt take it up to $2200 like similar kits ..

[canadam]

Would you dyno it once you have it?

[shimric]

Where's that famous quote when you need it.....

Pick 2
Fast
Reliable
Cheap

something like that.

[Adrians89MR2SC]

sure when the dynomax dyno comes threw to summit, or when a local dyno has a dyno day ill be happy to throw the #'s up ..

there will be two of us on here with the kit, so we'll see how the $440 t3/t4 hunk of crap kit goes ..

just bought it, so no going back i guess .

[the2ndr]

I won't tell anybody how to spend their money, but if it doesn't work out I have these parts for sale to the OP since he's local to me.

AGP 61mm Turbo $950 new
Autolabonline Tubular 8gauge carbon steel exhaust manifold $700 new
Tial 38mm wg $225 new
V-band adapter for turbo $150 new
Misc Aeroquip fittings for turbo $150-200 new
Downpipe and WG dump tube $100+

This $2200 or so $ kit I have will be sold for $1400 locally. These are the only parts I have bought that seemed worthy of lasting in Atlanta driving conditions. I didn't buy everything at once since I didn't have the money, but bought piece by piece over time and have no regrets paying for it. The only regrets I have is not having an MR2 anymore to use it on.

Mike
404-583-5811

And yes, Ive owned an MR2 since 2001, I have seen XS, SS Autochrome or ebay manifolds that have dam near crumbled apart after normal use. I have seen turbo's crack in half because of glue not holding up to heat, but If you want to try due to lack of funds be my guest. Again my opinion is only my own and hope the best for your future goals.

[Adrians89MR2SC]

aight, well ill see how it goes ..

i just need it to last me for a short while untill i can afford one of the better kits ...

i basically had two options ..

1) a used ct26 turbo (unknown miles) small amount of shaft play $200
2) new t3/t4 turbo with a new manifold / downpipe .. $400 ..

i chose the new kit, even if the manifold ends up breaking beyond repair i can get one of those adapters off of ebay for $50 that bolts up to the stock manifold ..

[kblake]

Originally Posted by Adrians89MR2SC

aight, well ill see how it goes ..

i just need it to last me for a short while untill i can afford one of the better kits ...

i basically had two options ..

1) a used ct26 turbo (unknown miles) small amount of shaft play $200
2) new t3/t4 turbo with a new manifold / downpipe .. $400 ..

i chose the new kit, even if the manifold ends up breaking beyond repair i can get one of those adapters off of ebay for $50 that bolts up to the stock manifold ..

Option 3: $450 rebuild to your stock turbo with a compressor upgrade, from Performance Techniques.

[Adrians89MR2SC]

could of done that, but it doesnt look as cool as a "crumbling" stainless steel manifold with a "crappy" t3/t4 turbo hanging from it ..

hahahaha ..

......................

how bout we all be friends and stop the arguing untill i recieve the kit and install it ..

then, we can start arguing again .. haha .

[kblake]

Originally Posted by Adrians89MR2SC

basically ..

just thinking about it .. other similar kits are $2200 +

theres no way a $400 kit is going to be good, and if it is im sure it wont last long ..

another way of looking at it is that we got mr2's not civics .. hahaha .. if a company makes a turbo kit for the mr2, its not going to be a mass production kit .. so it would have to be somewhat expensive ..

Funny, this post gave me hope...what the hell happened?

I think I need to change my siggy to:

"Common sense...it's not very common anymore"

[shimric]

^^^^

[ixtlann]

I believe its....
Common Sense isn't common.

[91_two]

Originally Posted by Adrians89MR2SC

how bout we all be friends and stop the arguing untill i recieve the kit and install it ..

Let us know when it doesnt fit and you sell it.

[ixtlann]

i bought there 3sgte tubular manifold and down pipe, and didnt end up using either but i used the manifold to turbo gasket that came with it, and it didnt last 1000 miles. With that in mind i dont know which came first the chicken or the egg, ie did the nuts come loose and make it destroy the gasket, or did the destroyed gasket make the nuts loose.... who know, but only nubs of the gasket were left around 2 of the studs, lame....

[canadam]

Oh come on, ixtlann, you're just a nay-sayer! This kit is probably the Rosetta Stone of creating reliable high power low budget MR2s

[mr2gq]

Well had to get it going tsome how. and no it wasnt cheap thats why I didnt have the money to go buy a 5K dolllar turbo kit. Hell spendiong that much money on a turbo kit for a car that is already turbo charged is kind of stupid to me. Hell I may as well go turbo my SVT for tha much money and dust the mr2

[Bak@EMSPowered]

Originally Posted by hmong337

not to mention that he sells the dual exhaust that looks IDENTICAL to the ebay one wait, it is the ebay one LMAO

THe exhaust we sell is made by Motoria. XSPower, SSautochrome, and many ebay vendors also sell the same exhaust, thats no secret. So please stop trying to belittle me and my company with your childish remarks. The difference you ask? The difference is that 1/2 the time you get damaged or WRONG items when ordering from those types of companies. And if in some case something does go wrong they won't answer a single email or phone call of yours. I back everything I sell, and I ONLY sell what I know works and fits properly.

These turbo kits DONT WORK WELL! Get it through yoru thick skulls. They are unreliable. They are HORRIBLY laggy. THey make very little power. If they were any good I have plenty of suppliers that push those crappy turbos and I could easily sell them, but do I? No?... the reason? Read above, THEY DONT WORK WELL.

[mr2gq]

How you going to tell me they are laggy and dont work well when I got the kit on my car right now????

[Bak@EMSPowered]

Originally Posted by mr2gq

How you going to tell me they are laggy and dont work well when I got the kit on my car right now????

Huh? Your post makes no sense. I'm telling you from first hand experience.

Put it on a dyno, get some real results other than the seat of your pants. Then if you're still not ashamed enough to post the results, post the dyno up.

[kblake]

Originally Posted by ixtlann

I believe its....
Common Sense isn't common.

Close! I looked it up: (insatiable curiosity)

"Common sense is not so common."-Voltaire

Here are a couple of others I came across that are just as good:

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”-An Wang

“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”-Thomas Henry Huxley

[mr2gq]

doesnt make sense, first hand experience??? You said the kit sucks and is laggy. I have the kit on my car right now and am telling you I can look at my boost gauge and see my rpm's and hear the turbo when it kicks in. So I have first hand experience and can tell you its not " laggy ". Let me guess still doesnt make sense to you huh? And yes when my motors broke in and I get a BC and turn it up to 16 psi or so and if something goes wrong, ill post about it. But as of right now everything is perfect