best turbo kit for the 3s.....

[burnyd]

Im looking to turn my 3s in my celica into a really fast motor.  I ran a 14.5 after the swap which I was really suprised.  I was hoping to crack low 14s if not high 13s.  But realisticly my goals are set to high 12s low 13s is what i want.  Im not sure what turbo kit to put on the car.  Ive been looking at ats recently.  They have a 20g kit that comes with injectors rom tune down pipe.  Suprastore has a td06sh20g for 1600 but I would still need a fuel set up.  The ats comes with everything but its 3000.  Just not sure what to do for alot of power?

[Dr Tweak]

I've heard lots of good things about the ATS kit. I've not used it myself yet though.
 
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[Don Fusskinrolla]

go to www.mr2oc.com and click on the genII forum.

anser all your questions.  But work of advise... do a search first, cause you will get flamed heavily for not searching.  Plus, all these questions ARE archived... so just do a search.

[DrPaine]

Dan, I would stick with ATS products.  I will be getting my CT27 or CT20B from Aaron at ATS.  He is a great guy with a great 3sgte/mr2 related company.  But I guess Im partial since I have an mr2.

[Supersprynt]

Was it your first time at the track? What psi are u running? Any other mods to the car?

[Dark-Hawk]

Just source together your own kit, find a Manifold to use and go from there. Always pointless in my opinion to buy a full kit for more than just sourcing together all the parts. Hell, would probably be better to just have a custom tubular manifold made, it's not always that expensive. I know someone who could make one for you for about $800 give or take, he was going to be doing the manifold for my 240SX.

[Darkest Edge]

If you can afford a custom kit, it will be better.  Able to design a correct manifold with the right sizing turbo will make a huge difference.  Plus also selecting the right combination of parts helps too.

I have seen a full kit vs. custom.  Almost similar specs, different parts used and there was a difference.  Both turbos were T3, just different specs on them.

Carefully choosing the right parts with the right design can save you more money later on.  Once a good aftermaket kit, you will probably want more.  I have known someone who redid his car minimum 3 times, but lost count after that, because he tried different kits.  Later on he choose to go custom and found a hugh performance gain.