I am looking for a bit more power on the S and am noticing that a turbo solution is much cheaper than a supercharger? Any reason for that?

I have seen some Greddy kits for about $4k but the superchargers seem alot more. What is a good price for a new SC with aftercooler?

What have you paid and where

 

4,800 for a vortech(satin,ap2) from superchargersforless.

Throw in the tuning costs for a turbo, and the price will be the same.

 

I got mine a bit over 2 years ago from superchargersonline.com for $4600 Vortech(polished)

 

Yeah vortech raised the price since two years ago...
Still that is the cheapest place to buy one.

 

who pays 1000 for tuning? anyways, having gone greddy turbo, it does come out about the same as supercharging but not from tuning. Tuning, broken parts, random problems, etc. goodluck

 

Buy a used super from someone who wants to go turbo and u can get it CHEAP.

 

well, ill tell you how much my stuff cost:
used vortech 3,000
couple missing parts+ fuel pump: 250
a/f gauge: $200 (i guess this is optional, but you SHOULD have it)
greddy e-manage ulti+boomslang harness: 575 (not needed, up to you if you want this, i'd say get it cause i could resell it for $400ish, and in my case im convince my engine would have been seriously hurt if i didnt have a fuel comp. to richen it up.)
spark plugs: ~$10

labor: free, did it myself. I had quite a few problems though so i dont know how people do this stuff in their garage. All work was done in a full race shop w/ every tool, extension, and resource i could have needed, still stuff kept breaking (i guess this is what you sacrafic for saving a buck buying used sc'ers).

so, those are parts i have that I personally consider neccesary to succesfully run a s/c'er. turbo, i dunno so much, havent done it, i can only guess.

 

Thanks for the input. I have seen some Greddy Kits "new" on Ebay for 4k but was amazed at the difference in price between those and SC. I will checkout Superchargers for less. Why did you go with the Greddy over the SC?

 

It seems like tubro are a bit more tuning intensive. I have been researching myself and since I am not very mech inclined a SC would a bit easier to deal with. I think price would be slightly more for the VT over the greddy but other turbo kits are more. I check these forum often and have seen more problem with the greddy kit then and SC. Most likey cause it's new and is still a bit buggy. I will wait to see and consider in the spring.

 

like mine! lol but yea, you can run the SC's out of the box ready to go.. with the current turbo kits out there you still need to tune them.. (I've seen issues with the greddy kit as well... nice kit, but some people seem to be having issues with the emanage tune.. might be going this route in the near future)