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Old 06-29-12, 12:31 PM
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Our super charger kits and turbo kits. Come now I don't believe that this platform should be ignored... How come we don't have a nice charger kit from Vortec or something yet?! The F needs forced induction to make this Yamaha engine sing! Why are hard mods so hard to come by... I mean sure there are tons of exhausts and intakes but who gives a F!!

Why haven't any of the old school supra shops stepped up?
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No engine tuning available....
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You can always drop 15k -17k on the Artisan Twin Turbo Kit

And i believe there was another thread with iCode making a FI kit?

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Old 06-29-12, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by jbjones85
No engine tuning available....
Are matey!

And not enough market demand. You should have bought an M3 if you wanted something to mod.

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So I had my girl call lems and inquire about their supercharger kit. About 23 grand and only an additional 70 hp. Wtf??? And their kits are sold out.they be ballin in Japan.lol
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JDM ecu is also different.
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Originally Posted by amgone75
So I had my girl call lems and inquire about their supercharger kit. About 23 grand and only an additional 70 hp. Wtf??? And their kits are sold out.they be ballin in Japan.lol
doesn't Joe Z Intake / Exhaust + Sikky / PPE Header = 60ish whp? For like...$4000?
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^^^ yup. and yes the ecu is different but they can export the supercharger kit to use on stateside F's . she didnt ask but i can find out more on what they actually do to the ecu.. basically you order it..bring your car into their shop , they install,tune the ecu and u fork over over 20 g's... thanks but no thanks..lol
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All we need is a tuned , after all the bolts on , and the additional 30 to 50 hp i'll be happy with that . Nothing safer than natural aspirated engine v8 pushing about 450wrhp and get the F down to 3400lbs or less.
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Originally Posted by 1SexyLexus
You can always drop 15k -17k on the Artisan Twin Turbo Kit

And i believe there was another thread with iCode making a FI kit?
A member here crazympg had that turbo set up. but couldnt really tuned , dynoed good ### but never couldnt get down to the ground. He ended up sold the F and part out everything , and kept his GTR.
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There also used to be a blue IS-F here in Vegas with the twin turbo kit. It would never run right, especially when the weather would change.
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Originally Posted by blitz_714
A member here crazympg had that turbo set up. but couldnt really tuned , dynoed good ### but never couldnt get down to the ground. He ended up sold the F and part out everything , and kept his GTR.
I remember seeing his thread, his IS-F was sick, but oh damn the GTR was sweeter!
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Yeah i know, the soft mods like bolt ons are boring. I mean real power...

13k for twin turbo is stupid if you cannot control it via EMS.
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with the bolt ons, the car pretty much tunes itself weirdly. i redyno'd mine after the intake/exhaust and headers and the guy at the shop said whoever did the tune on the car did a good job, lol .

I did see shops are starting to play with piggybacks and trying to get a reliable setup with that to be able to tune, but if your waiting on our car being able to be tuned, you'll be waiting a while, the supra ecu still hasn't been cracked, those guys use stand alones and piggyback systems too.
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Supra ecu has been cracked there Gforce ecu Mines ECU ect, no it's not fully cracked it's a chip on it.

I don't care about cracking, piggy backs are fine with me I just want some sort of kit so we can bolt on a charger or something.

It's pissing me off you can get a kit for m3's but f all for a IS-F when I know that engine can take tons of power.


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