The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) XXX

Jayhovah

Time for my biannual check-in to this thread in order to soak up some cheap repz.

@JLarson - In your position I would go with the BP kit. Look at some of the Stillen/Topz SC threads and you'll see people have all kinds of annoyances with belt slip, SC unit reliability, mix'n'matching pulleys to get more boost, air filter placement... they just seem to have an abnormally high amount of little problems.

Also, if you're just going or a stock motor, 500hp 'safe' (as safe as a boost build can be, really) type of setup... why leave 50+whp† on the table in driving the SC when you could be pushing that out to the wheels instead?

BP kit, in it's current form, looks stupid easy to install. I'd bet I could do it on my own in a couple of weekends on jack stands, even if I am being my generally anal self about it.

Just my opinion - I have no personal experience with either kit but generally follow all the FI subforum threads and have personally gone through the DIY TT install wringer. I'd imagine any top-mount kit is going to be similarly difficult to a TT just by virtue of having to pull out the OEM exhaust manifolds and shoehorn in something much larger.

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† - I pulled this number right out of my butt.

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