Hi,
In the last few days, I have been thinking about NA-T projects on a JZA80. I'm not ready yet, but thought I'd weight up the prices and facts first.
In my research, I have looked at as many threads as possible on the supraforums and the SAU forums to see how other people have gone.
Seems alot of people keep going on with this "My mechanic said you can't turbo a NA engine", utter BS!
At this point I bring my current ride to the table, a SR20DE, with yes, a TURBO added. It has a T28BB turbo, a SS manifold, Microtech ECU (was actually running standard SR20DET ECU for a while), runs 9psi daily. Was a drift car, so driven pretty hard, then I bought it and only added the microtech. Its been going strong for well over a year, producing over 150RWKWs at 9psi the whole time. (Which isn't bad for an SR).
So it would be really goog to have some thread or something for all the people running succesful NA-T engines, rather than hearing from people who:
a) Haven't tried and are just repeating what has been told to them; or
b) Have actually tried or know of someone who has, but the tuner didn't know what he/she was doing and things went wrong.
I can tell you from my experience, my everyday driver is great to drive, very responsive with the high comp and being caught of boost isn't so much of an issue, then when boost comes on, it runs great.