I was planning before to get a Turbo kit from Hal, but after reading all the latest threads i'm more uncertain about what i should look for.

Here's my situation. I will be getting the Maxima right before i head off for college (and the forced induc will be installed before this point in time) and i am not going to have the $$ after the install to afford much extreme maintenance work (get the ideA :P )

With the supposed quality of these turbo kits at the moment (in general) should i expect to have lots of problems? Obviously since i will be in college, the amount of driving i will be doing will be reasonably small, but still I wont have much spare money to take the car anywhere (and i'm no mechanic to any degree).

Is a supercharger much more reliable?
My problem is the fact that i don't like the linear responce of the supercharger; the turbo just has so much more on demand power.
I am looking for highway power and 0-60. Quarter mile time is not what i am looking for, just powerful responce for highway cruising.

Since the supercharger is linear, it should have high power for highway crusing. but no so much power in the 0-60 spring.

What do you guys think? any ideas?
THanks a lot

 

save ur money and buy a real sports car....

 

not an option.. parents choose the car

 

i say save ur money...drive the maxima...when u graduate buy a real sports car...don't bother boosting the max...if u want a cheap thrill...SPRAY...

 

I don't think installing either right before you go off to college is a good idea. Unless you make damn sure everything is good to go BEFORE you leave.

 

My personal opinion is that it's better to not be distracted by this sort of stuff while you're in college. Unless you're majoring in something easy and have time and money to devote to your car. Can't you wait till you've got a degree and a job?

That being said, I've found my SC kit to be well engineered, reliable and safe. Knock on wood. As far as power on demand is concerned, all I have to do is downshift to get into the power curve.

 

 

the common phrase around here with mods and forced induction is: "you gotta pay to play"

we talking about adding a significant amount of horsepower to a engine that is not boosted stock. Expect install problems, time and money for tuning, and trouble shooting before you get into the stage where you are running problem free.

Thats like 500+ AFTER all your installation and turbo/SC costs

 

I completley agree, and I know latinmax knows as well... Things should go relatively smooth, but little oh ****s happen... I'm just at the point where I don't have to mess with anything for it to run ok, 3 months after installing sc.

 

It takes some work but I think it is weel worth it.

 

agreed! belt alignment issues spent a lot of my time.

plus all the money that you will spend on the monitoring devices....those are not cheap too.

 

I didn't install the SC in college, but I did plenty of other stuff. Don't do it if you won't be able to afford to fix it or you can't skip a day of class to fix it.

I often skipped classes...for less important reasons than a car...

 

having hang-overs was my good reason to skip classes in college, usually on Monday morning and sometimes Tuesday morning.