[Alltezza]

Before I start, I am just planning ahead right now, I still have to pay off my car before I do anything to it. So I will not be buying a turbo kit any time soon until about a year. I am making this post so I can look back and reference to it when the time comes. I have been researching as much as I can and I have used the search feature and Google as well. The 2 biggest issue I been wondering is emissions and tuning.


I been looking at this turbo kit, Full Blown is the name. It's a turbo kit I really been interested in getting. The problem where I live at we have to pass emissions. Almost every turbo kit I've looked at for this car removes the cat converters.

I spoke to a FullBlown vender here and he said they can make a downpipe with a cat in it but that doesn't guarantee that I'll pass when the time comes, hell what about that OBD test.

I really don't wanna supercharge my car, I have nothing against SCs I just don't like them as they should only be in V6s and up (Yes, my opinion I know)

So I'm asking, what are some of the work arounds you guys do?

Another topic I would like to ask you guys, is the tuning process. Regardless of a turbo or supercharger I'm still going to need a tune. From what I've read I have to take my car to a local tuner in my area and they put it on the dyno and tune it from there. What I don't understand is what is a good tune compared to a bad tune, and why are they so expensive on kits like the basemap for example. I've read a thread here says something like "Anyone blown a stock boosted motor yet" and I read a lot of posts there and from what I'm seeing our motors were blown because of a bad tune.

I'm not going to keep typing because this post was already long enough as it is but you all probably all get the idea.