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Originally posted by Josch:
Originally posted by Y2KSVT:
Cheap power = Nitrous! 
With a ~75 shot on a relatively stock motor, have similar HP gains as a Supercharger and a LOT more TQ. Get yourself a ZEX kit for ~$500, NGK TR66 spark plugs and you're ready to go. Spend a little bit more and get the car on a dyno to check your AFR.
Mark
Cheap power? Have you ever heard the saying: 'You can pay me now or pay me later'?
1 bottle= 6-7 runs,
Fill your bottle= $25
2 bottles per week (12runs)= $50 /week
52 weeks (1 yr)= 104 bottles /yr.
$2600 /yr
x 2 years= $5200
Turbo kit= $4995
You can pay now, or pay later
Also don't forget the initial cost of the nitrous kit
First off, I don't know many people going through 2 bottles a week as a normal routine.
Second, where are you located that you can get a 10lb. bottle filled for $25????? Nitrous is around $4.50/lb. here at a speed shop, which means ~$45 a bottle. Good thing I know a guy that has a nitrous filling station in his garage!  It's still $30 a bottle though!
Third, saying a bottle gets you 6-7 "runs" is a pretty generaly statement. It depends on what size shot you're running, whether you run it in all gears, what rpm you introduce the nitrous, etc..
Mark
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nitrous is fairly "cheap" around here then. not cheap but there are two places that i go, one is 30 bucks for 10lbs and the other is 35... which one i go to depends on where i go that week.
the introductory cost is what got me "in" on nitrous...i got a NX wet kit with everything for 200+helping a guy pull the motor from his Honda(which took 1 hour and 15 min.)
i do have to say nitrous is fun and even tho eventually it will add up to and surpass the expenses of a turbo kit...its all in what you want. some people(me) CANNOT get up 5g's at one time...EVER so we have to settle for "less". oh well...i think my car is quick and this Wednesday we shall find out how quick at the local track on "TEST & Tune" night
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SVT UIM/LIM/65mm TB, I/H/E, Fidanza/SPEC III/Torsen, Koni/GC's, 19" Icon wheels w/ Pirelli rubber, NX Wet Kit
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Originally posted by Stazi:
That's gay.
So you bought a junker for under $5k and want to turbo it. Yeah, I'm sure that car is gonna LOVE you boosting it and nothing stock will break. If you think you can slap a turbo on these cars with ZERO other mods and think it'll last your dreaming.
The ADC kit is QUALITY - yes lets go over than word again because it's very important QUALITY. A kit for less than that is going to be compromised - no way around that. Their kit is comprehensive - uses only QUALITY parts - comes with a chip tuned for your car so it runs right and produces numbers that people with homemade kits can only dream of beating.
You f'en newbies are clueless! 
WOW!! Talk about going a little overboard on your response Stazi???? Runs right with the chip? I thought you where the one saying your car isn't running right yet CEL's etc with the adc chip after the SZ dyno????
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Sheesh,
My homemade kit kicks ass! However, I still tuned it with help from streetflight/ADC. So there is some truth to his statement....
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356/334 wHP/TQ at 10psi on pump gas!
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Some people are very partial to the ADC kit...and I probably agree with them when someone gets on the forum and asks what they need to do to turbo the car.
But I also had many people tell me I couldn't do it either, and so far most of the homemade kits have done very well. Maybe they lacked some tuning.
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Originally posted by Stazi:
The ADC kit is QUALITY - yes lets go over than word again because it's very important QUALITY. A kit for less than that is going to be compromised - no way around that. Their kit is comprehensive - uses only QUALITY parts - comes with a chip tuned for your car so it runs right and produces numbers that people with homemade kits can only dream of beating.
You f'en newbies are clueless!
I could have purchased headers from ADC rather than use MSDS headers and still would have been well under what the complete ADC kit costs. I have all 321 and 304L piping from the headers back, I have a liquid to air IC system w/ spearco 700 CFM IC w/ better pump (Thanks again Rara!) and coolers, brand new Garrett T3/T04E and and I have full tuning capabilities to boot. Well under what the ADC kit costs, might I add.
Since I am not up and running yet, I will gladly STFU about that aspect. 
My point, one can put together a great quality kit if they just source their own vendors, ect out. I did.
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Originally posted by Swazo:
Since I am not up and running yet, I will gladly STFU about that aspect.
LOL!! I like your honesty
Mark
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