vr6 turbo?

[Legette11]

so i have a 1999 mk4 jetta and i have been seriously considering getting a turbo kit for it. does anyone have any suggestions on some good yet affordable kits? would love to hear the feedback. thanks

[WeenerBoy]

i cant really add to this, but the last guy i heard that was asking for an "affordable kit", blew his sh!t up..

...you get what you pay for...

[jiffyjetta]

...you get what you pay for...

/\True.


How much is "affordable"? and what kind of power numbers are you wanting?
Kinetic makes a good kit for your car. I would plan on $3500-4000 for a good set up.

[Gillyvr6]

I agree with the others. You get what you pay for. You can probably find a cheap ebay kit for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500? Might be optomistic about that. But I always thought that if you were to turbo a car, do it right and go with something like Kinetic. Or look into the forced induction, and maybe find a secondhand one. Either way I would look into the forced inductions forum.

[NW.MK3.DE]

build your own kit with name brand parts

[NW.MK3.DE]

a lot of it just depends on what kind of power you wanna make and how reliable you want it to be. I know a guy running an eBay turbo kit with C2 software on his mk3 VR and it makes almost 400. Hasn't had any problems yet. But he doesn't daily it either.

[dubbin2.0T]

build your own kit with name brand parts

It's a fun and exciting adventure. Well, as long as it's not your daily.

[Legette11]

ya see this is my daily so probably not gonna want to be putting out a ton of power

[URTurboFreak]

build your own kit with name brand parts

I agree...kit's are overpriced..and if you are on a budget, not everything needs to be new..
the only thing i would definately get new would be the turbo and the oil lines to the turbo just for piece of mind..

[jodub337]

Sell you mine for $2k
Kinetics stage 2 with 20k miles...great shape
Its off a 24v, so you'll need a different exhaust mani

[ChubbaDub]

Well if you dont need a sh!t load of power you should supercharge it.

VF stage 1 will give about 250hp and 230tq

[dubbin2.0T]

Well if you dont need a sh!t load of power you should supercharge it.

What if he likes the "psssssssssssssss splooooosh" more than the "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"?

[ChubbaDub]

What if he likes the "psssssssssssssss splooooosh" more than the "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"?

[NW.MK3.DE]

I agree...kit's are overpriced..and if you are on a budget, not everything needs to be new..
the only thing i would definately get new would be the turbo and the oil lines to the turbo just for piece of mind..

agreed. I've done a lot of research and the Godspeed turbos and some of the CX racing turbos actually aren't bad for a budget build. I'm probably going to run a Godspeed GT35 Ceramic Bearing turbo on my car at first since they are $450 compared to a garret which is $1500. I will admit, you get what you pay for..

[WeenerBoy]

What if he likes the "psssssssssssssss splooooosh" more than the "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"?

i'll never be able to a fire truck myself, so if i ever do anything power wise, it'll be a charger

[URTurboFreak]

agreed. I've done a lot of research and the Godspeed turbos and some of the CX racing turbos actually aren't bad for a budget build. I'm probably going to run a Godspeed GT35 Ceramic Bearing turbo on my car at first since they are $450 compared to a garret which is $1500. I will admit, you get what you pay for..

FOR $450 I would run it till it dies and just buy another one..

[rabbitchaser]

some of the ebay turbos are ok, cx racing seems to have ok ones,

im running one of there t3t4 .57 trim turbos on my aba which runs 22 psi daily and goes to the drags pretty often, have never had a problem with it the years its been on and im not nice to it.


but yes there not as efficient as a big dollar turbo thats why im stepping up to a pt 6262 with the new build.

[1990Turbo]

Turbo over s/c anyday!

[c25porter]

I had a kinetics for years, it was good to me, sold it for half of what I paid for it when I parted the car out. I say go Kinetics, if you go used be prepared to possibly need a new turbo, but otherwise fully worth buying used.

[huichox4]

I say go with a kit if you dont have much experience with this kind of stuff.

A kit will have most of what you would need, new or used (as long as all the used parts are there). if you piece it together you might run the risk of getting the wrong parts or worst, installing the wrong parts and end up costing you more than a kit would have when you break something. plus the huge amounts of frustration. assuming that you are installing it yourself.

if you pay a shop to install you are in for a lot of $$.

[skaterazn]

ya see this is my daily so probably not gonna want to be putting out a ton of power

Don't be a wuss. I did it with 24-28 psi daily.

[dubbin2.0T]

Don't be a wuss. I did it with 24-28 psi daily.

Tong is never wong.

[hvactech]

i ran a godspeed fmic on my old car and it actually had less pressure drop and cooler discharge temps than the sparco i originally had

[NW.MK3.DE]

i ran a godspeed fmic on my old car and it actually had less pressure drop and cooler discharge temps than the sparco i originally had

godspeed is actually a decent company. I'm gonna run their turbo, FMIC, and Wastegate.

[ValveCoverGasket]

ya see this is my daily so probably not gonna want to be putting out a ton of power

all about how you drive it.

[adam the caveman]

if its your daily then dump the vrt plans.
its such a pain in the @ss waiting for the car to warm up and im always worried about someone stealing that racehorse outta my driveway.

[URTurboFreak]

if its your daily then dump the vrt plans.
its such a pain in the @ss waiting for the car to warm up and im always worried about someone stealing that racehorse outta my driveway.

Remote start and a decent security system will fix that.

[skaterazn]

if its your daily then dump the vrt plans.
its such a pain in the @ss waiting for the car to warm up and im always worried about someone stealing that racehorse outta my driveway.

waiting for it to warm up? I just drive it out of boost

[c25porter]

waiting for it to warm up? I just drive it out of boost

Agreed, this is true of any car. My warm-up consist of waiting for the choke to let go. (I know they aren't chokes anymore, but same effect, I wait until RPM drops close to normal, then stay out of boost until oil temp gets about normal, but at very least until water temp gets normal)

[skaterazn]

HI Will !!