Nothing special WTF.
Who are you kidding. You can't tell me that a Jap cooler that has had 100's of hours of RnD won't outperform your local shop building a big cooler out of a truck core???
First of all, not all jap companies pour 100s of hours into their products, and not all local people don't E.g.
www.are.com.au. They do AWESOME work, easily comparable to HKS (I saw a HKS cooler on the front of an S13 with almost identical end-tanks to my ARE cooler).
As for turbos the jap brands are the ones to buy if you want reliable high power.
You can't just make wild generalisations like that. I'm sure some jap turbos are good. Just as I'm sure some yank turbos are good. Also, it really depends what you mean by `reliable', the GT42 garrett will give you 900hp til the cows come home, is this not reliable?
20k on an L series engine is crazy crazy crazy. I would spend no more than 8k on the whole lot drive train and engine. For that money you could buy a half cut whith a bit left over for bolt on mods.
Yep, and I know which I'd rather have! You can't seriously tell me that you think a 20K L28 wouldn't be stronger than a stock RB26? Any stock engine is only so strong, and any decent engine (which we all know the L is) with a full race-prepped billet-forged bottom end is going to be stronger.
I would love to see your project when compete. Not having a go at you. And wish you luck with your build.
Cheers
I know you're not having a go.
Neither am I. I like discussion.
Dave
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