hey,
can anyone help me find a cheap turbo kit for my 4.6L 1997 F150? Money is an issue because im still in highschool. Or should i jus purchase a turbo then individually buy the pieces needed to install it? Whats tha turbo for ME?
Thanks Guys.

 

Frederic...........anybody????

 

There is no such thing as a cheap turbo kit, at least not as a bolt-on.

If you're willing to do the research, acquire the parts from junkyards, ebay, and in trade, you can design and fabricate your own system much, much more inexpensively.

There are a lot of non-ideal but reasonable shortcuts where you can use common materials like "Black Pipe" to make your turbocharger manifolds as I have.

But you're not going to find a 500+HP turbo kit from an aftermarket source for $200

If "cheap" is your foremost concern, you might considering a nitrious kit until you save the funds to put together a turbocharger system.

Nitrious can be fun actually, just a bit annoying when the bottle runs out.

 

thanks for the help frederic.... I jus got a t70 turbo and a type RS blow off valve so far for the kit, what would be the next best thing to get you think frederic?

 

I'm not frederic, but I'd say get an intercooler and some tubing. There are two types of intercoolers, but the rest of the stuff i'd talk to fred about.

 

what are your plans for this truck? im assuming its a daily drive since your still in school. i think the t-70 is going to be way to much for the truck if your not running high rpms all the time. your going to need some type of fuel control like a fmu to increase fuel pressure with boost. for a turbo that big new injectors are a must. and a computer tuner of some kind would be a good place to start.


tony

 

thanks tony for tha advice..right now ive put the turbo project on hold because i need to build up my engine before its ready for the turbo, so i jus purchased a cold air intake and jba headers

 

When you start doing hear work be careful because, if the heads are original, you may snap the bolts so it will take 10x as long as you expected.