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cjhopkins 01-13-2015 09:48 PM

Turbo or new engine? Help!
 
I think that we can all come to an agreement that the FR-S is a very beautiful looking car, but there is one MAJOR thing lacking.... the horsepower and torque. I have heard of many ways that people have gotten the power they want out of this car. What I am asking for is idea's of what other people have done. I thank you very much for taking the time and writing a response. Have a great day!!!

raven1231 01-13-2015 09:49 PM

I swapped a b16 in mine with vtec

Tcoat 01-13-2015 09:55 PM

Budget? Goals? Car used for? Skills?
An no we "all" can not agree there is a power issue as I am sure you will find out shortly!

funwheeldrive 01-13-2015 09:58 PM

LS7 swap.

BlueDubbinTDI 01-13-2015 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat (Post 2089839)
Budget? Goals? Car used for? Skills?
An no we "all" can not agree there is a power issue as I am sure you will find out shortly!

Don't feed the troll

Tcoat 01-13-2015 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueDubbinTDI (Post 2089842)
Don't feed the troll

Ha Ha! Checked other posts and don't think is a troll just ummmm misguided maybe.
Although if asking about how good $500 coil overs are and the better ones are too much money then asking about turbos and engine swaps could be a tad trollish!

BlueDubbinTDI 01-13-2015 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat (Post 2089847)
Ha Ha! Checked other posts and don't think is a troll just ummmm misguided maybe.

He was in a discussion of springs vs Raceland coilovers. I think it's fair to say he's not in the market to spend on a turbo or new engine...

Tcoat 01-13-2015 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueDubbinTDI (Post 2089849)
He was in a discussion of springs vs Raceland coilovers. I think it's fair to say he's not in the market to spend on a turbo or new engine...

And likely kill himself with it if he did have them!

chaoskaze 01-13-2015 10:16 PM

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Wait maybe it's not a troll but this lady! :thumbsup: Just saw this on facebook now!

SloS14 01-13-2015 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by raven1231 (Post 2089830)
I swapped a b16 in mine with vtec

D15. Single slam it!

I had a boosted D15 with a 4-speed. It was hilarious.

CB750F 01-13-2015 11:00 PM

Ok, I'm looking at putting an Orenda Iroquois in mine. This should take care of any & all competition.

It took me 2 yrs to buy this car, every thing I read about it, ie:200hp was ok by me. This is what I wanted. It was like a Opel GT, MGB... fun, light, yadda yadda yadda... It's a tuner car, have fun, do what you want :)

So what's an Iroquois.... [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orenda_Iroquois"]Orenda Iroquois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

No war paint pls....

Lonewolf 01-13-2015 11:13 PM

Never fear, your solution is here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BLUE-AIR-INT...33b676&vxp=mtr

Error 01-13-2015 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by cjhopkins (Post 2089829)
I think that we can all come to an agreement that the FR-S is a very beautiful looking car, but there is one MAJOR thing lacking.... the horsepower and torque. I have heard of many ways that people have gotten the power they want out of this car. What I am asking for is idea's of what other people have done. I thank you very much for taking the time and writing a response. Have a great day!!!

Now you're going to get a lot of troll responses or flat out jokes, I'll just believe you're serious and tell you what I've done. First off, I got rid of the FA20. It was a decent engine, but I had bigger things in mind. This car needed kick, so I swapped in/hired 3 dwarves to live in my engine bay. Between the three of them, the car puts around 180-290whp give or take depending on if its a Monday or Friday. This wasn't enough though, the dwarf bay was getting too hot for the temperature gauge to read, and so I had to think of cooling. I grabbed a water cooler off of my computer and filled the reservoir with tears of a unicorn I had lying around. This provided maximum cooling capabilities, as well as giving me a modest increase of 30whp. Next was the Turbo. I went to my local torrent site and downloaded Turbo (2013) and threw it on a CD. Took that CD and put it in my radio and now the cars got a bumpin turbo. Lastly I had to deal with all of the bitches that were suddenly attracted to my car. To resolve this I slammed the car and tweaked in some dope ass negative camber. This resolved the panty dropping and now I just attract the occasional highschooler and get greeted with mad street respect. Ah, just what I wanted.

Wise 01-13-2015 11:19 PM

The LSX and 2JZ swaps just don't have enough power for this car IMO.

Which is why I decided to forgo pushrod engines altogether and transplant a Pratt & Whitney J58 into my car.

I had to change the speedometer to knots because I was sick of counting revolutions of the dial to see what speed I was going. :party0030:


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