Is it that hard to....
 

Build my own turbo kit. Meaning, is anything preventing me from picking up some greddy turbo manifolds, a couple td06 20g's and kinda piecing everything else together, such as the intercooler i want, the piping, and wg's? seems to me like this would be a cheaper route, and i could accumilate the parts over a couple months instead of needing to drop 10k all at once. only thing i would reall need to have done by somebody is the tune.

Any drawbacks to doing this or anyone have any ideas of possible problems i could run in to.

Anyone who has done this, show me what you got!

if you don't do the fab yourself, i would think custom $ > kit $. aside from that cost, you may also have major issues that wouldn't usually occur in a kit.

case in point:

http://www.the370z.com/forced-induct...ml#post1178797

Whats the point in gathering all the parts one by one. Put some money to the side every month and buy it all at once, its probably gonna cost the same. Unless like Abdiel said your doing your own custom building of pipes manifolds etc...

The downside to doing it piecemeal by yourself is the variances in parts/measurements/tolerances for each will vary. With buying a kit you're not only paying just for the kit/install but you're also paying for the R&D that went into the kit to make sure that it all works together as advertised. If I could buy all the parts and do it myself for $7k, and the kit is $10k, that extra $3k is fine because it's buying peace of mind that you know someone else already did the hard work and is giving you a completed project you know works.

But if you're feeling froggy and have the know-how to do it, by all means no one will tell you not to try. :tup:

well where would you get the correct size/length/bend piping from?

Where would you get the plethora of brackets needed to hold everything together?

By the time you manage to get all of that made/found/cut it would have been cheaper and taken less time to buy a kit.

Now, if you can find a shop to do everything for you completely custom and it comes out cheaper then go for it. But even though you may run into some issues or have it cost almost the same.

Actually the only way this might be feasable is if you are a fabricator yourself and had the time/tools/equipment to do it.

When I had my STi, the shop I worked with built me a custom rotated mount kit, which then went on to be a production kit. I can tell you it took WAY longer and was substantially more expensive than just getting an OTS kit. You're not going to save any money doing yourself unless you can do the fabrication too, and even then you will probably have a less reliable and more difficult to repair kit. Also, the kit will not work until you have all the parts so buying a part here and part there is no different than just saving money until you can afford a complete kit.

this is true i guess. maybe i am just trying to take away that intial 10k sting lol

Haha, yeah, it stings, but you are going to pay the piper one way or another. Better to just save up for it slowly then enjoy getting the thing done right.

don't worry.. the sting go's away once you hit 3000RPM.

then you have to pay for medical bills from the whiplash :roflpuke2:

Tires add up to more then the medical bills lol.

So I was thinking the exact same thing. I wanted to buy all the parts and the go to a shop to do all the piping and tuning, but the thing is that it is going to be a lot cheaper since I can get things for Garret at pretty lower price. But if other issues will arise I guess the savings are not worth it.....

If you can fab it yourself, that route is cheaper (but very time consuming). If you can't, it'll be a huge money pit.

I wonder how much my "peace of mind" costs?????

theoratically, other than the flanges and piping/oil line lengths needed the fab shouldn't be anything too insane