Accelerated Performance 2013 BRZ - FRS Turbo Kit Designing

[.Alex]

Originally Posted by rusty959

Besides how we may be getting a bit too far off topic, don't forget that not all of the cost over that of materials is profit from r&d. In a shop like this, there are tons of things such as building costs like rent, power, etc and tools like dyno, etc, none of which are cheap. Then assembling the kit has a cost for each kit as well.
In my line of work, engineering, the overhead can be up to twice as much as the hourly wage. Of course we have a lot of IT etc work that needs to happen, but still.

[#87]

If this kit proves to be a reliable DD with no or little additional mods, then I think it is 100% worth 5k + tune + install.

[carbonBLUE]

Originally Posted by #87

If this kit proves to be a reliable DD with no or little additional mods, then I think it is 100% worth 5k + tune + install.

i think they have logged 200+ dyno runs if im not mistaken

don please correct me if im wrong

[grk]

Originally Posted by carbonBLUE

i think they have logged 200+ dyno runs if im not mistaken

don please correct me if im wrong

correct me if i'm wrong too, but doing 200+ dyno runs doesn't prove its reliable for daily driving, does it?

if you warm a car up and do 50 dyno runs back to back, thats stressful to the components in a particular way, but they're also all warmed up and everything is flowing etc. its another thing to start it up every morning cold, then drive it to work in traffic, let it sit, then drive it back home. different type of stress to the components.

of course, 200 pulls on a dyno certainly shows that its working and the engine seems to have no trouble with it in those conditions, which is a good sign.

[sierra]

Originally Posted by KamalT

How will it work with Australian vehicles and the higher octane we use???

98 Oz = 93/4 US
95 Oz = 91 US
Something like that.

It's the same fuel using a different measurement method.
Minus the ethanol for us!

[fenton]

Originally Posted by grk

correct me if i'm wrong too, but doing 200+ dyno runs doesn't prove its reliable for daily driving, does it?

if you warm a car up and do 50 dyno runs back to back, thats stressful to the components in a particular way, but they're also all warmed up and everything is flowing etc. its another thing to start it up every morning cold, then drive it to work in traffic, let it sit, then drive it back home. different type of stress to the components.

of course, 200 pulls on a dyno certainly shows that its working and the engine seems to have no trouble with it in those conditions, which is a good sign.

200 dyno pulls does a good job at proving that the engine isnt going to blow a ringland or whatnot a month after you buy the kit.

Daily driving shouldnt be nearly as stressful as long as you let everything warm up properly before getting on it(as you always should).

Thing i am worried about is -30C Canadian winters and how the kit would deal with those extreme cases.

[Synack]

What about here in HTX where it's always >70 degrees

lol. it's true....

[Don@Accelerated]

Originally Posted by carbonBLUE

i think they have logged 200+ dyno runs if im not mistaken

don please correct me if im wrong

No your not wrong. Quite frankly i'm tired of listening to it make pulls.

[fenton]

Would love to see videos of this thing on the road!

[Don@Accelerated]

There are videos on youtube

[Visconti]

Originally Posted by Don@Accelerated

No your not wrong. Quite frankly i'm tired of listening to it make pulls.

omg me to.

I still have Prime's FRS at my house - I didn't even want to drive it to the post office today lol

[fenton]

Originally Posted by Don@Accelerated

There are videos on youtube

I see the auto FRS video posted by Visconti but no manual one at 10psi?

[Don@Accelerated]

John will have to chime in. I'm pretty sure I took video.

[Philly]

I just spent 3 days at Don's shop getting the turbo installed and tuned. I can say with total honesty that the price is more than reasonable! We had 4 guys working on the car - it really is a lot of work involved. Keep in mind that mine was his first automatic, and we found a few differences from the manual.

But really, at this point Don and his team know the BRZ/FRS better than anyone hands down. He's turbocharged both a manual and auto, and dynoed extensively with John Visconti for results nobody thought could be done.