$3,500 Single Turbo Kit vs. $8,100 Twin Turbo Kit | HiLow
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Published 2020-01-15
If you want more power out of your Z, you really have to go forced induction. Which basically means, forcing more air into the engine to get more combustion. So in this episode we're installing turbochargers.
Hi Team went with a Jim Wolf Technologies twin turbo kit. It’s high quality across the board. Best materials, it’s been through lots of R&D, everything should bolt up easily. But it’s $8000 DOLLARS! That’s more than we paid for the actual car! Can that possibly be worth it?
It comes with two Garrett GT25 turbos. Garrett is one of the most trusted brands of turbo. It also comes with all the piping, plumbing and pieces you could ever ask for. Sometimes with these kits, the plumbing won’t fit quite right so you’ll find yourself having to do fabrication or calling your friend who knows how to weld. But with this expensive kit, theoretically everything should bolt right up and we won’t have to get our Tinker Boyz on. Part of that $8000 price tag.
It was designed to be an OEM+ set-up with OEM reliability in mind, which means it shouldn’t require a lot of attention from you once its in--another benefit. It comes with its’ own piggyback box which talks with the car’s ECU or computer, and the right one can save you a lot of time and effort.
These turbos are good for up to 530 hp, which is beneficial in two ways. If you do choose to go FULL hot boi down the line, you won’t need to upgrade your turbos, you can just keep these. The other benefit is that because these are way more than what we’re going to be throwing at them, they’re not likely to be a failure point.
Team Low went with a Rev9 turbo kit, purchased on Amazon for $2400. It’s a single turbo kit. It comes with a turbonetics 60-1 turbo and a turbonetics evolution 38mm external wastegate. That’s one of the reasons we chose this kit. The turbocharger itself is the part of any turbo kit that is the most likely to fail. So even though this kit is “cheap”, I know with a name-brand, at least the turbo itself should be fine.
This kit only includes the hard parts and doesn’t come with any software to help tell the ECU what’s going on. So in addition to the kit, we also had to buy an UpRev software license.
We’re gonna show you our super long journey to get these things installed, then we dyno them to see who makes more power!
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All Comments (21)
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Am I the only one thinking this would be an amazing Netflix show
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This series should be called: Watching Nolan's warm soul slowly leave his body
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Anyone else rewatching in 2024?
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Aaron smiling with the oil leaking is a testament to his patience. Definitely my favorite donut member, although idk if hes still around.
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Meanwhile in video games: “Select single turbo or twin turbo, press X to install”
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45 minute episode what a present.
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Nolan’s increasing “done-ness” as the project drags on is all of us
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I never knew turbos were this hard to install. And these guys are pretty solid mechanics. Makes me think I’d never be able to do it 😂
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45 mins, this is a Netflix original episode of high and low
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I saw a tweet that asked “why do all of mens hobbies make them so angry?” and this entire channel is a textbook example
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I know I’m a couple of years late but can we just appreciate the effort from this whole team from the leads to the mechanics to the editors to the shop hands. Just an amazing episode. Legit tv quality up and down drama and action. Love this video
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You guys are the basically the American Top Gear we all needed, HiLow is such a great series to follow
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Donut Media is a Top Gear's long lost bastard child. In a good way.
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This series should be called, Nolan getting more depressed every episode.
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The crack in the block was from the thread tape they put on that pressure fitting. Never use thread tape on any sort of fitting that threads into aluminum cuz it will stretch the casting and crack it.
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Aaron and Zach. Truly super awesome for working with Donut and keeping their cool through the process of all the hardships for these builds.
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When the “cheap” turbo is still more than your car
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What I learned from this: Turbos are a lot more complicated to install than I thought
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damn this is a good series, no made up drama just real people working on cars with a great soundtrack. good job donut 👍
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This episode is the epitome of why you guys are successful and deserve every single bit of it! Fabulously entertaining, somewhat educational… Always enjoyable and always so much fun!
