average price for turbo?

[wild.irish]

i was wondering, what's the price range for turbo kits + installation? i looked at several online places, and it's usually somewhere close to $3500. guess that's without install. i was looking at Turbonetics for both f22b2 and h22a. at the same time i heard people saying that in California some shops have the whole set-up with install for somewhere around or even under $1000 (no brand was mentioned though). i don't want to get crappy turbo, but over three grand is also not an option right now.
so my question is this - what price range should i look at if i want to get reliable, but yet not over-hyped brand-name turbo kit?

[STIBungy]

Check out groupbuycenter.com

[rmcdaniels]

those kits come with four parts:

4 Parts (T3/T4 turbo, Manifold, Wastegate and downpipe assembly)

What you're buying:

OBX Racing manifold, prone to cracking, poor wastegate location, to quote saabracr it's a "wear item"

Wastegate is a "Tial-like" noname Tial knockoff (not like Tial is a high dollar wastegate in the first place), this is somewhere you probably don't want to cut corners.

The turbo is a "Master Power" made in Brazil. It says the turbo has "WET FLOATING BALL BEARINGS" . I think that's BS Master Power only says they make regular thrust bearing turbos. The thrust bearings are floating bearings, but then again I think all thrust bearings are floating bearings, metal to metal contact at 100K+ RPM can be a bad bad thing. This may be a great turbo, but I really don't know. The only one I've seen had a regular 5-bolt T3/T4 flange, but only four bolt holes, one of which was in the middle of the flange instead of at the tabs where other T3/T4 turbos have their bolt holes.

2" SS downpipe. I don't know how anyone could fuck up a 2" downpipe, so this one may be safe,but then again I don't know. If you're lucky it will have a flange and fit your application.

For close to a thousand dollars I think you can do better. You don't have to spend $3500 to put together a good setup, but I think $850 is too little. I reviewed one of these kits a month or two ago and passed. I ended up piecing together my kit from a bunch of different sources and I think it is better than anything I've seen out there, plus it cost a lot less. If you do want a good kit, you might call inlinepro (www.inlinepro.com), they will assemble a very high quality kit for you, but it will cost around $3500, maybe a little less.

[Pang]

OBX=sucks.

[highlife]

OBX=sucks.

i agree

u get what u pay for

[wild.irish]

I ended up piecing together my kit from a bunch of different sources and I think it is better than anything I've seen out there, plus it cost a lot less.
thanks for lots of info!
i kinda like the idea of making your own kit, it might take more time to investigate things, but that's not something i'm gonna complaint about :)

[myshtern]

lmao

"I dont know how someone could fuck up a 2" downpipe"

you'd be surprised

[stu]

Not to mention the fact that 2" is way too small.