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Supercharger or turbo for 4500 petrol Nissan?

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:40 am
by pato castro
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!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:18 am
by bazzle
Ask them who has the kits in stock. Someone would of bought 25.

Bazzle

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:59 am
by pato castro
mmm... you don't know anybody?

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:09 am
by BT1-PATROL

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:18 am
by Dirty Dave
is this your own website and your first at that.... :finger:

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 12:00 pm
by Evan
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

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:21 pm
by BT1-PATROL
Dirty Dave wrote:is this your own website and your first at that.... :finger:


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

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:01 pm
by pato castro
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.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:17 pm
by Evan
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

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:27 pm
by Robbo
JPC turbo's in Melbourne will help ya. Have done lots of Nissan's. Cheers good luck. ;)

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 8:36 am
by matthewK
gear to goannawhere

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

matt

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:48 pm
by McJeff
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

Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:28 pm
by GRINCH
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?