Racezx9,

There are plenty of good advice given here. You just need to listen to them rather than brush them off.

Clutch is the first item you will have to change, and you're better off changing it before you install the turbo since you may have to disassemble part of it later. The clutch involves dropping the engine slightly

The stock clutch will not hold 300WHP - not even close. It will just start to slip when you hit boost. Trust me and everyone else on that.

Eveything else is up to you and your budget.

Good Luck.

 

what's a good clutch fo rteh track and street. also I am looking at replacing pads, what once again what's a good street and track pad. street 95% of the time.

 

I'd get either the ACT or the Competition Clutch kits. Others like the Spec, but I am not a big fan (I currently have a SPEC clutch in another car.)

For the street, I would STRONGLY reccomend the OEM brake pads (even with FI.) It's better to swap pads for track days than drive around with dusty, loud brake pads all the time.

For the track, some like the Padget or the Hawk pads. I have found the dust from those pads to be corrosive to the wheel finish. While the pads work well, they will eventually eat your wheels and that's not good. I reccomend Carbotech pads for the track. They dust like CRAZY, but the dust won't hurt the wheels.



If you can't handle a little sarcasm or recognize a little humor, then I truely feel sorry for you.

If I were to walk into a car dealership and ask for a Z06 at $20k off the sticker, they would laugh at me. Realistically, a turbo kit at $5000 is in the same boat. I think it's great that you have set a budget, but it IS an unrealistic budget. You said $7k is too much. You have quoted $5700 - $5900 to get it installed, and that is without the roughly $1000 you will need to spend on a clutch (with install.) That puts your out of pocket expenses at $6900, which is pretty damn close that the $7000 being too much to spend.

BTW -- Out of the box, neither the Vortech nor the Comptech super chargers need bigger injectors or additional fuel management. Though I would reccomend a dyno tune with either to ensure you are not leaning out anywhere along the rev range. The Comptech is not (currently) available new, although rumor is that they may be coming back soon. Also, realistically, with install those kits would likely cost just as much as the Greddy kit. (And you will still need a clutch.) The advantage there is that they are more common so more people are familiar with the "gotchas" of install and how to solve common problems with them. The Greddy is new and untested.

No matter which way you go, good luck with it.

 

I know I'm new here, but I have something to offer as a matter of this conversation. Hopefully you all take my experience with turbo/sc as a true beacon of justification.

Racezx9: Go sling your shit in the FI forum, they are better at putting up with people like you. We (myself, ruexp86, pushin9, rcr s2, etc...) are too nice of ppl to unload on your Presumptious, Assuming, ThisGuyToldMeThis style Rhetoric.

 

I did a budget turbo build but its not even worth saying anything since you dont listen. I am truely amazed at how everyone is being soo nice and keep helping you.

 

Moonliver, not sure why you consider yourself as people... that a good bit of sarcasm.

As far as what Rux brought up on clutch slipage that's a good point on the additional power the engine puts out that may require a clutch upgrade. I didn't consider the clutch upgrade in the turbo budget, because that was something I had been thinking about for a while, outside the turbo project ( since I smoke the clutch a couple of time), and if the two comes together no big deal.

It's a car and I understand things needs to maintained and replaced. I didn't want to take on a turbo project that a requires hidden necessities such as it didn't come with engine management and have to get it to tune the turbo or, you have to get bigger injecters or must have CAT back to get any power increase. Which is what I heard about other systems.

As far as any hardcore rebuild of teh car I am not interested.

 

I don't know anyone actually running the Greddy.

Didn't they put out some pitifully weak stock numbers, IIRC?

You're better off bolting on a used Vortech for $4k. That'll get close to 300whp.

 

At this point the total cost fo rteh greddy install is down to 5,150 with an option to spend 300 extra for a dyno tune, which I have been told is unecessary. Any opinion on that option ( the $300 is not a big deal, just wondering what people who have done it thought).