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> whats better? 3S-GTE swap or 5S-FE turbo kit, need some opinions
post Apr 19, 2004 - 7:53 PM
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So which one would you say is cheaper?
post Apr 19, 2004 - 8:51 PM
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The turbo
post Apr 19, 2004 - 9:08 PM
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I dunno. I think that it would come out to be about the same. I know the shop by me quoted me at 2300 for a clip. JDM sells the engine w/ tranny for $1000. How much is a 5sfe kit going to run you? I havn't really looked into it, I think I heard 2500. My engine has too many miles on it for me to turbo and have it last long, so I'm going with the swap.
post Apr 19, 2004 - 9:14 PM
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what y'all concern to many miles? I've heard of early 90s cars getting turboed w/ no problems on stock engines. If the compression test works then u should b good to go if you do it right.
post Apr 19, 2004 - 9:15 PM
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hey, I was searching around on the net, an found this place that does up your 3s-gte, just to show waht can be done i guess, really cool stuff.. check it out
3s-gte perfomance
post Apr 19, 2004 - 9:18 PM
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QUOTE (shid @ Apr 19, 2004 - 4:09 PM)
I think I'm going to go 5S-FTE for a couple reasons

I don't have the money to spend on a swap
I don't have the time to donate my car to a shop, even for only 3 weeks or so
I have a vert, which is already chopped in half. It probably can't hande that much power
I don't need that much power

if those are your reasons then you are not ready for a swap or a custom turbo.

think about it this way. with a turbo, you are adding something to the engine that it never designed to handle. the is a huge risk of engine failure due to something you did wrong or something that went wrong outside of your control. so in the end you may end up in a situation where:

youll have to spend a ton of money trying to fix things as they break.

blow up your engine and be without your car for months.

end up having to do a swap, even if its for another 5sfe.


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post Apr 21, 2004 - 6:28 AM
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QUOTE (Uppitycracker @ Apr 17, 2004 - 7:10 PM)
You sure about that??A highbred 5s might have more power psi for psi, but stock I doubt it..

Besides a 3sgte can handle more psi without modification. 3sgte is more practical.

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post Apr 21, 2004 - 1:32 PM
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post Apr 21, 2004 - 2:19 PM
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There's no way we could duplicate one of those setups in a 6gc, plus it'd be probably more expensive than a 3sgte swap alone (since you need all those 3sgte parts)

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