Supercharger or turbo for 4500 petrol Nissan?

Post by **pato castro** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:40 am

A friend has a 1998 Nissan Patrol with the 4500 engine and manual tranny, and he's interested in buying a power adder (either a supercharger or a turbo kit). We're looking at: http://www.airpowersystems.com.au/safar ... tudy1.html

but it says something about "minimum order 25 kits" or something like that, and we also look at:

http://www.capa.com.au/kits_nissan.htm

But we need to decide which alternative is the best, so if the turbo is a better option (personally i prefer turbo over S/C) who sells them? Our cars are left-hand drives by the way.
Thanks in advance!

Post by **bazzle** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:18 am

Ask them who has the kits in stock. Someone would of bought 25.

Bazzle

Post by **pato castro** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:59 am

mmm... you don't know anybody?

Post by **BT1-PATROL** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:09 am

Check out http://www.turbonetics.com.au/

Post by **Dirty Dave** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:18 am

is this your own website and your first at that.... :finger:

Post by **Evan** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 12:00 pm

Left hand drive from where abouts ?
The APS stuff is sold a lot in UAE as single units.
I enquired about a GU 4.8l turbo kit and was told the only place they sell them is UAE via a reseller.

But turbo manifolds are pretty easy to get made up and turbos an easy to find or get made to right specs.

I would go turbo, remember you only need to run 5-7psi to get over 400hp from the 4.5 and 4.8 i believe.

Evan

Post by **BT1-PATROL** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:21 pm

Dirty Dave wrote:is this your own website and your first at that....

If you refereing to my reply....no its not....its the ATS (Australian Turbo Sales) site, They are in tullamarine in Vic. They have done some pretty awsome stuff

Post by **pato castro** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:01 pm

But nobody else in Australia makes turbo kits? That's sad, because australian stuff have an excellent reputation, so i know the turbo kits are of a superb quality (a friend has a APS turbo kit in it's Impreza, and it moves!). How about CAPA stuff? i see they have a supercharger kit, but is that a reputable company?

http://www.capa.com.au/kits_nissan.htm

please help me on this, i live in the end of the world (at the other side) and is hard to find fine stuff.

Post by **Evan** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:17 pm

CAPA from what i have heard from friends that have used them are good (atleast LS1 related stuff)
Reason i dont think you see so many kits is because the turbo is easy to source and they just get somebody to weld up a manifold for them, all up proberbly would cost less than any kit could be put together for.

I am going to japan in 3 weeks so i will see if there are any kits over there but would be pricy, but would fit perfectly.

Evan

Post by **Robbo** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:27 pm

JPC turbo's in Melbourne will help ya. Have done lots of Nissan's. Cheers good luck.

Post by **matthewK** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 8:36 am

gear to goannawhere

www.4wdsystems.com.au
they do a bit of everything as wells as turbo kits

matt

Post by **McJeff** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:48 pm

Hey,

Go the Turbo package, i have one on my RB30 Patrol i'm very impressed with how it moves on wet road while factory diff lock off, but i've never tried this on dune...

What u need more power for? if it's dune attack go the big turbo u can find (e.g. Trust T88 :shock:

) otherwise if it's daily driver, get sensible package from AVO Turboworld or APS.

Cheers

McJeff

Website · Post by **GRINCH** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:28 pm

what sort of fuel economy do you get out of your turbo rb30?
did you just turbo the existing motor or swap it with a factory turbo?

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