how much for a turbo kit to be fitted (labour)

15th February 2007, 11:24

Just wondering if anyone could give me an approx cost of how much it would / might cost someone to fit a turbo kit for labour charge?? cheers

15th February 2007, 11:27

I know nout about it mate but try do a search i think there was a thead quite recently about this

15th February 2007, 11:36

ok ill have a quick look cheers

15th February 2007, 11:37

just for a basic turbo kit fitted and setup your looking at about £3,000-£5,000 mate, then you will need to consider things such as uprateing, clutch, brakes, etc!! then there's increased insurance, running costs, etc! lots to consider!

15th February 2007, 11:38

gmc want about £700 to fit a supercharger conversion including mapping so your going to be looking about the same for a turbo kit, i fitted my supercharger myself was easy enough just need to take it somewhere to be mapped.

15th February 2007, 11:41

Suppose it really depends on the kit you thinking of?

Do you already have the parts and just need fitting, what management are you going to be using etc... all these things add up, like wiring and mapping etc...

15th February 2007, 11:55

planning on buying a full kit off someone, then ill just need it fitting, will be running sigcon and mf2, which is already setup for the setup im getting so would only need minor tweeking at the most

15th February 2007, 12:16

so its just the fitting then, sorry i thought you meant parts aswell, in that case i'd still say your looking at about £1k ish i'd say!

15th February 2007, 12:55

hmm wouldnt of thought it would be that much, as there isn't that much to do, biggest parts of actually fitting the kit would be taking the head off to put the decomp plate on and uprated clutch, rest of it is basically bolt on i believe

15th February 2007, 13:06

wiring of sigcon and mf2 is probably going to be the biggest labour charge especially if the garage dont have experience of them

15th February 2007, 13:31

yeah spose that would cost abit aswell, although i wouldn't have thought there would be much to it connecting them upto the car??

15th February 2007, 13:40

well do it wrong and you can kiss your engine good bye. Need the wiring instructions with both of them as well

15th February 2007, 13:45

ok then, ill ask the guy who i may be buying the kit off if both come with the wiring diagrams

. just trying to figure out which is cheaper, buying and fitting vts and camming it, or buying and fitting vtr and turbo'ing it, just small things matter, hence why im asking people about labour charges for fitting turbo kit

15th February 2007, 15:28

how much are you buying the Turbo Kit for? and what does it include?

Depending on how much the kit is and whats included in it, i'd say it would be cheaper to buy and fit a VTS engine then cam and re-map for that your looking at £2000-£2400 as a rough guess! and with other mods to help compliment the cams such as Induction Kit, Mani, etc you will easily see 150bhp!

15th February 2007, 16:36

£1400ish for turbokit, includes everything, turbo, mani, downpipe, turbo, clutch, air filter, etc etc

15th February 2007, 16:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oli_P

£1400ish for turbokit, includes everything, turbo, mani, downpipe, turbo, clutch, air filter, etc etc

2 turbo's? lol are you VTSTWINTURBO

haha only mesin mate, post up a complete list of everything included in the kit, that way we can see what your missing and what you will need, and be able to give you a more accurate price range mate!

15th February 2007, 16:57

think this is the 1 i was going to purchase

awerham is selling it

15th February 2007, 17:00

Is this the Mofo your on about Hess?

CLICK ME

15th February 2007, 17:03

that is the mo fo indeed

15th February 2007, 17:04

just save the money and put it towareds a new car but if you have money to burn do it and give me some while youyr at it

15th February 2007, 19:10

DP-Engineering do a very high quality turbo kit for €1783.81

You get the following:

Garrett GT-series ball bearing turbocharger
'Blister 8v' equal length exhaust manifold
Stainless 2.5" downpipe
Stainless 2.5" flex pipe
Turbocharger water cooling connection set
Stainless braided oil feed line
T25 Oil drain flange + gasket
T-piece; oil pressure switch dual outlet
T2 turbine intake gasket
Hose connection for oil drain flange
Oil and heat resistant hose

Then you just need:
Intercooler
Oil Cooler
Pipes
Clutch
5th injector
MF2
Remap

http://www.dp-engineering.nl/EN/prod...u_8v_compo.php

15th February 2007, 19:14

I think your forgetting possibly the most important upgrade of all though Ash.........

..........Breaks!?

If you can't stop, your in the shit! lol

15th February 2007, 19:18

yes thats the turbo kit im considering buying btw

15th February 2007, 20:23

might be a good idea to purcahse one of these aswell mate (see link at the bottom), otherwise the Torque will kill your engine if not distributed eveny! Which is why a Supercharger would be much much more feesable as it distributes the power evenly through the full rev range!

CLICKY

15th February 2007, 20:42

thats a piggy back ecu, wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy incar boost valve or adjust it the hard way by actuator, i think it is, or fitting a bleed valve.

15th February 2007, 20:46

is it not a boost controller!! lol thats what i meant to post!

15th February 2007, 20:53

nope think thats just a piggy ecu, not sure, but think reason why guy is selling that is cause he made a turbo setup with turbo at angel with standard manifold so probably went bang on him lol

17th February 2007, 18:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oli_P

hmm wouldnt of thought it would be that much, as there isn't that much to do, biggest parts of actually fitting the kit would be taking the head off to put the decomp plate on and uprated clutch, rest of it is basically bolt on i believe

do not use decomp plate --better and cheaper to usea second mls h/gasket.
you cannot use solid plate with strech head bolts it is not correct.
you will have no prob with double mls gaskets --i promise ,better to use lc pistons --but i understand money is always the prob.
what you should consider is that it is not only lowering the comp ratio ,but the proper pistons still give you correct "squish area" at edge of piston .
they have a dish in middle but edges are still at top of bore