stage 2+ turbo kit

[m_life]

Joe me and a friend of mine have been looking around at turbo kits for the last week for his car. Now were looking for around 500+ on pump and possibly high 600 to low 700 on race fuel.
He has used a lot of hks on majority of his cars and we looked at the HKS T04Z and he fell in love but I showed him the stage 2+ kit you do and he was interested.
Can you give me some more info, comparisions, advantages, disadvantages between the 2 kits?? I know the T04Z has an anti-surge housing which does upset the spool but anything else you know of which I don't?
Cheers

[bignum]

Ive just put a 2+ kit on mine and although its not finnished yet ie ecu injectors ive run it briefly at 0.7 bar and it feels nice, not as laggy as i`d expected and already feels quicker than bpu. Quality is top notch as you would expect.

[kslb]

I have the 2+ and makes over 500 on pump at 1.2 bar. Getting re-mapped soon as well so should have more info then. Can see it in my garage.

[Joeatphr]

Joe me and a friend of mine have been looking around at turbo kits for the last week for his car. Now were looking for around 500+ on pump and possibly high 600 to low 700 on race fuel.
He has used a lot of hks on majority of his cars and we looked at the HKS T04Z and he fell in love but I showed him the stage 2+ kit you do and he was interested.
Can you give me some more info, comparisions, advantages, disadvantages between the 2 kits?? I know the T04Z has an anti-surge housing which does upset the spool but anything else you know of which I don't?
Cheers


Hiya Mate,

Here is a long email that I had with a customer of mine, please read as to what I said:

1) The PHR kits use the genuine HKS exhaust manifold and the genuine HKS GT Wastegate - the same pieces the HKS T51 kit use.

2) The PHR kits heat-coat the exhaust manifold, wastegate tube, turbo exhaust housing, downpipe, and midpipe. This is $600 in very important and quite functional heat coating!

3) The PHR kit includes a downpipe and midpipe - the HKS requires you to purchase the HKS or Blitz midpipe separately at an additional expense or make your own.

4) The HKS kit only comes with one stainless steel braided hose - the oil feed. The other hoses are rubber. The PHR kit provides stainless steel braided hoses for the oil feed, oil drain, and turbo-to-wastegate.

5) The PHR turbo, downpipe, and midpipe are all v-band. This makes install A LOT easier (quicker, cheaper) than trying to line up a 4-bolt flange on the Supra which never seems to line up 100%.

6) The PHR kits allow you to choose your polished turbo - any size you want. You are not stuck on the "one size fits all" theory.

7) Both kits use Garrett-based turbos - the best turbos on the market in many opinions.

8) We sponsor the Supra UK club and support all of our parts fully. We're always right here to assist you with help. Were a small company with 14 years Supra-only expertise, and alter our kits all the time to be the best just like our street kit that was redesigned with the new wastegate. HKS is a huge corporation who knows nothing about the UK Supra club and they update their kits about once every 5 years.

With all that said - the HKS kits are truly great kits. However, I do believe the our kits are better for the same or even LESS money. A Stage 2+ kit would do you the same power as the T51 kit, or a Stage 3 would exceed it.



Maybe that will help how we feel about our kits!

Cheers,

Joe