I recently was reading through a few misc. magazines and i found an article that spiked my interest. In it was about this magazines project car that was a 350Z. And they first got to test out a single turbo kit from someplace that used a Turbonetics turbo. then they tested a kit from Power Enterprises. as soon as i read the part about the turbos i was ecstatic. this turbo has an adjustable wastegate(Duh!). all you do is change the spring that you want to order and install it. its that easy. The turbo is a PE1420 Ball-bearing with separate actuators. if ordered with the kit it comes with a spring that limits boost to .3bar or 4.3 psi. A rep of the company says that the "...turbos are capable of flowing air for well over 350hp maintaining a linear power band". "the turbo has a 20 A/R exhaust housing ratio and a 60mm outer diameter compressor wheel. and max flow is 14m3/min."
So whatdya think? send the exhaust housing for some extrude-hone and a thermal coat? use the spring that gives out 4.3psi without a boost controller during the break-in period and then switch to a 1.0bar spring and tune it. with that done my dream FB will have over 320hp with a 3rd gen tranny.
any thoughts?

 

I say buy the turbo, and send it to:






me

 

later on im going to check the price of just the turbo...

 

stick with a second gen tranny, I've heard the third gen trannies need much more mods to make them work with earlier engines.

 

not the engine thats the problem, they are all the same for all intents and purposes, its the way the tranny bolts to the body, the SA, FB, FC use a transverse mount that goes from one side of the tranny tunnel to the other, the FD's use a longitudal brace that goes from the tranny to the differential to form a powerplant frame that helps to transfer the power more efficiently to the rear axle (only helps in an IRS though) and its a major fabrication to make it work in the other bodies.

kenn