Dear members/Vendors

I am looking for a single turbo kit for a nissan 350z that will be in competition for drifting.

i need easy maintenance and repeatable performance. I know Momentum is gone yet i am considering it from thoses whom have them in stock.

as far as i know we have the following single kits:

Boosted Performance Single (sits next to the trans)
Soho Motorsports
Momentum Performance

those were off what i am aware of, looking for a max of 1.0 A/R as i would like to minimize lag.

HP goal would be around 400-500


Thank you for Looking!

 

They still make the Turbonetics kit. Also, S&R Performance in Tampa has a shop turbo kit that is supposed to be pretty good but it's way overpriced IMHO. Idk if you can still find any APS single turbo kits on the internet or not, you probably can. For single turbo kits that make at least 400whp that's about it. All of them are going to be really expensive though.

 

I'd love to see someone use a comp oilless turbo. However Non of the above sound good for drifting. Only way I'd drift a boosted Z would be if it had a supercharger and or cast manifolds with small 18G or maybe SR S15 turbos.... Drifting causes way too much stress and heat for a single turbo kit for my liking.. Drop weight add a little more powa. IMHO a supercharger would do just fine with a good Diff and not so grippy or wide tires..

 

The first thing I thought of for drifting was a supercharger too.

 

if you wanna drift, your best bet is to invest in suspension parts, steering angle kit, bolt-ons, LSD, and plenty of tires. As fare as single turbos go, the best turbo kit available in the BP kit. trust me I've been thru the momentum and the TN **** kit "known as godspeed now" they all suck if you're shooting for high hp. I made 517.8whp on a fully built vq and the momentum kit / headers. plus the boost kicks pretty late even on a stock engine. if you want to run something fun with a ~390whp get a gt30r turbo and build a kit or ask sasha at BP if he can make one for you it will kick in pretty low and full boost will be at ~3000 rpm.

 

What not just go with that JWT twin turbo u have in your sig? That is probably better than any single turbo option.

 

divided 6266 with a qsv of some sort will likely do that pretty easily just gotta figure something out for the qsv without modding the floor pan. you can get some high boost numbers down low you will just limit max power.

dude above that........... really? you obviously dont follow FI to much sasha's kits will do more then the jwt kits with the bigger turbo options and you hardly give up any spool(if you give up any at all)from the better turbos. the differences between twin and singles on this platform only matter when comparing twin to front mount single. mid mount gives up far less in spool, more room under the car for a biggerturbo too unless you go with something like sfr.

 

appreciate the feedback, this is would not be my car. it would be for a customer of mine,

suspension, control arms, tires, wheels, diff ect ect ect... is all gonna be there, which is why the customer does not want to spend much.

I hate superchargers, for the power they make in the import scene and the price it just doesnt make sense.

 

I would rather see a twin scroll manifold with a twin scroll turbo in this case, without the QSV. I made the switch from the mid-mount to the twin scroll on my own car, and it was a noticeable difference. A decent amount of fuel had to be added between 2500 and 3000rpm, so it did spool quicker (same turbo, and comparable turbine housing size).

The twin scroll manifold positions the turbo closest (compared to any other ST kit) to the OEM/aftermarket exhaust manifolds, so the spool/response will naturally be better. The mid mount is very much comparable to the top mount kits, and does offer some advantages as the plumbing between exhaust manifolds and turbine is still shorter/straighter than with the top mount. The down pipe is also about half the length, while IC piping is comparable in total length.

I have found (with great help from the crew from DYNOSTY) that the key to a proper ST kit on the VQ is the turbine size. Some of my customers have the .96a/r T4 housings on the mid-mount, and those with the twin scroll kits and built engines are using the 1.32 a/r T4 twin scroll housings. The VQ breathes very well, and the larger housings will go a long way in making efficient power at any boost level.

 

my .96 spooled far quicker then any of the top mount kits even with the more powerful turbo. hitting 20 psi at around 4200 ish and 25 at 5k. the quick spool setup with the new 66 exhaust wheel and 1.32 exhaust housing is even quick but i dont have logs of a good highway run but i know old setup would max around 13 psi in first vs 17 on the current setup.

ALOT of info on the quick spool setups(not necessarily the sp one since alot of people did it long before them) and the research shows about a 33% reduction in spool by time due to leak over from the housing from one volute to the other, thats more then you would get going from a single to comparable twins and very close to nitrous. the only thing that gets alot better by time is a custom setup one of the engineers is running which is nitrous/meth mix(his staging nitrous uses only pure meth for fuel and is very very timing sensitive)

there is also a huge difference in that the closer mounting makes very very small differences in boost threashold, most of the gains are in turbo spool different concepts, he qsv setups lower both spool by 33% by time as well as dropping boost threshold by 20-30%