It's been mentioned a couple times. FWIW, an IPT valve body upgrade won't do much for his 5-Speed manual trans.
well, you can stick as big of a turbo as you want on any car, so you actually could make it plenty fast actually. regear with 26 inch tires, itll fuggin fly. :fro:
what were the torque numbers on those engines though???
What kind of fab skills do you have? If you can weld I vote turbocharger, I have less than $700 in the whole setup and more than enough power.
Man, if you're wanting something fast or big on power, you should consider something else. The 4R just kinda lumbers down the road.
Brand new S/C kits from the dealer should run you between $2700 and $3000. They will come with everything you need. The kit was designed to run on a factory un modified engine so it will do no harm. If you decide to modify it further, that's when you need to look into other upgrades (cooler spark plugs, 7th injector etc.)
And to whoever is saying that forced induction does not do much to these engines...I'm not sure where you're getting that. My factory runner did 0-60 in a weekend. After the fact: a few weeks ago I was out at MIR with a few friends running there mustangs and they convinced me to run the 4r. I beat 2 swapped civic hatchbacks, a gti vr6 and a hemi ram 1500. Oh yes, the supercharger makes a difference.
Its also surprisingly easy to install. Once I laid out the parts and made sense of the directions, it took me just shy of 4 hours to install (including beer breaks)
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i havnt really heard of anyone turboing a 5vz
pretty sure you cant get the sc kit from the dealer any more, but i could be wrong.
but trd in now way designed this to 'do no harm'. mine was installed by the dealership on a completely stock engine and pinged like hell until i put larger injectors in. i have heard stories from members here of people actually pinging their engine to death due to the haphazerd design of this unit. this was pretty much the first aftermarket blower kit trd ever sold (afaik), and it shows. look at the new tundra kit for example, it comes with cooled plugs, extra injectors, and many other parts that this one didnt. granted your location makes a difference, but everyone in cali thats sc that ive talked to has had pinging on some level with this kit. i guess it works ok at higher altitudes, maybe the trd research facility is in the mountains i guess......:hatsoff: