Supercharger or Turbo conversion for AWD tj magna

[Krypptik]

Does anyone have any info on what to look for in regards to turbo charging or supercharging my Magna has anyone done this and can give some advice thanks for ur help

[TZABOY]

Search button dude

plenty of people on here are supercharged, and a few are in the middle of turbo mods. It can all be done, just hope you're loose with your bank account

BTW, welcome

[awdboy]

hi mate the search button brings a few topics up but mainly of general talk.......
a few of the awd boys excluding my self have gone down the suppercharged path .
but none as of yet!!! have turboed /twin turboed an awd .
there have been a few of the fwd magnas turbo/twin turbo though
so most just supercharge due to cost and for reliability i guess
i have been interested in doing this for a long time as would many others in an awd but $$$$ dont come easy
i think i read in a thread some where that some one was planning to do it but havent heard nothing more.

[doddski]

I think in the long run - supercharging, is cheaper.

A supercharged AWD Magna / Verada, is a little more common than a twin turbo one, so your likely to get a FRACTION more support (unless your like me.. and live in the middle of nowhere... and the people that did the install... have one of two issues along the way that they dont tell you about... but i digress...)

ANYTHING is possible with enough money - and moding a car towards forced induction, supercharged or turbo / twin turbo charged, is quite expensive.
The initial upfront cost of the blower, then the installation, then the tuning.
THEN
ongoing service costs - the cost of higher octane fuel, the cost of better oil - and having to change it more frequently. it all adds up quite quickly.

If your a lil short on cash right now - then may FI isnt the best thing to be doing currently...

Lots of information on here - peoples experiences etc - just gotta sift through the search results.

EDIT - btw - welcome!

[[TUFFTR]]

hi mate the search button brings a few topics up but mainly of general talk.......
a few of the awd boys excluding my self have gone down the suppercharged path .
but none as of yet!!! have turboed /twin turboed an awd .
there have been a few of the fwd magnas turbo/twin turbo though
so most just supercharge due to cost and for reliability i guess
i have been interested in doing this for a long time as would many others in an awd but $$$$ dont come easy
i think i read in a thread some where that some one was planning to do it but havent heard nothing more.

I'd love to know how that's true.
If anything, A turbocharger would make your engine more "Reliable" then a supercharger as a supercharger is ALWAYS forcing air in. A turbocharger may not force air in until 3000RPM.

Either way your looking at it your going to be down the gurgler at least $10K. That's just bolt on's too. You'd be surprised how much custom fabrication can cost when you need to make intercooler pipes, manifolds etc.

if you were going down the Turbocharged route, Personally I'd be dropping in a 6A12TT Galant/Legnum motor and boosting the hell out of that. Giggity.

[Linz]

Hey man welcome to the club.
I was looking at Twin turboing an AWD and tufftr is right, your lookin at at least $10K. Hope you got some money saved up.

[Andrei1984]

10k sounds quite optimistic to me, when i inquired i was looking closer to $13 & that's without cracking the engine open.......

[[TUFFTR]]

10k sounds quite optimistic to me, when i inquired i was looking closer to $13 & that's without cracking the engine open.......

Exactly my point...

[awdboy]

I'd love to know how that's true.
If anything, A turbocharger would make your engine more "Reliable" then a supercharger as a supercharger is ALWAYS forcing air in. A turbocharger may not force air in until 3000RPM.


if you were going down the Turbocharged route, Personally I'd be dropping in a 6A12TT Galant/Legnum motor and boosting the hell out of that. Giggity.

True ,MY BAD

With Putting the 6A12TT motor in what difficultys would we posibly have? and How Much more $$$ are there to be saved or spent in going about it this way?

[[TUFFTR]]

Base motor is about $2200 from import wreckers. Halfcut would be around $4K, itd still be an expensive excersize (you cant get out of converting to FI cheap) just having a factory turbo motor is a better platform despite its smaller size.

guy in fast fours ran a GT35/40 on a 6A12TT in an FTO for 305fwkw....