Why our turbo kits Rock!

[AMS]

Due to some recent discussions here are some points of our turbo kit that make it the best kit on the market and why it costs more to manufacture.

1. Manifold. Some of you might notice that some other turbo kits have larger diameter runners than our kit. Bigger is better right? In this case wrong. If you go top big on the diameter of the runners then all you are doing is losing exhaust energy and increasing turbo lag. This is because if the exhaust gas comes out of the head port and into a larger cross section area it slows down and the pressure changes, and as it meets back in the turbine it has to speed up and the pressure changes again (Bernoulli principle). The more the speed and pressure change the more energy is lost, giving our turbine less potential. Again these are things that we have tested in the past and why we use custom mandrel bend tubing to our specifications rather then much cheaper cast weld-els which are available in very limited sizes.
Our Manifold has forged transition pieces that take the oval port of the head and transition it to the round runners. This smooth transition is better for flow. We've also tested a lot of variations of our turbo kit back in 2003. It took us over 6 months of testing out kit to finalize our design. We've tried different collectors, bend angles, ect. and what we came up with fit the best in the car and performed. The angle of our merge collector is what it is because it doesn't hurt flow and allows for better fitment of the runners.







2. O2 Housing As you can see this is a very complex part that is expensive to manufacture. You have a turbine housing that now you custom machine and port, a more complex flange to make, and a proper wastegate dump tube with a double slip fit joint and return that is further downstream as to not disrupt post-turbine gas flow. The header, turbine housing, wastegate piping, and o2 housing all heat up at different rates and grow differently, as the car goes through thermal cycles this needs to be addressed because it can cause a failure. Our design allows for this and can take years of punishment and thousands of road racing miles (like our Time Attack car). Just look at burnsstainless site and see what they say about double slip fit. Their stuff is used on many pro race teams and it's very expensive! If you do see any leaks it's because when the pipes are dead cold they sometimes allow some leakage and as soon as it heats up the joint expands to form a tight seal, that's how they work. http://www.burnsstainless.com/MergeC...ollectors.html It takes roughly 5-6 hours to make one of our o2 housing, it's very labor intensive.












All of our flanges are surface ground flat, this ensures no leaks on the manifold or O2 hsg. Upon inspection, even after 1 year of 10+ events, testing, dyno, ect our kit on our time attack was sealed tight and mating surfaces were clean.


As for the rest of the kit.


Downpipe The downpipe incorporates a flex section, why you ask? Well the 4G63 in the EVO is a transverse mount, meaning the crankshaft is perpendicular to the direction of the vehicles motion. If you've ever seen an evo on a dyno you'll notice how much the engine & trans (they are mounted together) rock back and forth under accel/decel. The factory OEM turbo setup used a ball & socket type swivel with a doughnut gasket on the o2 to downpipe transition. The downpipe is bolted up with some spring loaded fasteners to allow for movement between the engine and the exhaust system. The factory uses a heavy duty cast manifold and small turbo and it still uses this flex system and a support bracket! If there is no provision for this movement your turbo kit and exhaust system will want to rock back and forth together, putting a lot of stress on those part which will eventually lead to some sort of failure.

Check out these photos






All the feed and return lines are high quality and high temperature material. Oil feed line is a s.s. braided teflon line. The oil return line is an Aeroquip industrial hose (not just rubber) that is multilayer and braided for strength and heat resistance.



Water lines


The water feed and return lines are 3ply braided silicone lines that will not burst and hold up to the most extreme applications (rally and road race)


Turbo Support Bracket The importance of a turbo kit support bracket cannot be stressed enough! we've put over 3000 miles of road racing our time attack car and have had no issues with any cracks or leaks. Our kit even outlasted a Garrett GT35R turbo, which failed a few events ago after two years of abuse. If you look at the FACTORY turbo setup you'll notice they also include a support bracket!






The proof is here!
These are just some of the examples of race cars that run our turbo kits & engines. A rally or road race car is the ultimate testament to product durability, if it can survive hours and hours of abuse and hundreds if not thousands of miles of race stress, it has proven itself for a lifetime of road and drag use. Drag racing in particular does not reflect on product durability, it pales in comparison to even daily street use. It may take a year of street driving to reveal any issues with durability, but on a road race or rally car, it may take only 30 minutes of heavy abuse to find issues. Ask any racer and I'm sure you've heard the quote, "hey it works fine on the street?"

Hill climb car from Europe with our turbo kit and engine





Predator Performance road race car with our turbo kit





Roger Feghali's winning Rally car with our turbo kit and engine





Our Time Attack car with over 3000 miles of road racing on it's odometer!



If you have any questions regarding our kit please feel free to ask me!

Regards,

[shivaswrath]

excellent write up and details, very helpful in turbo kit selection and will give your competitors incentive to either discount their setup, or incorporate similar designs (I like the flex joint and support bracket for design inherent to your system!)

[h.funk]

Everyone knows that you guys have a great track record. But some people like to have other options.

[AMS]

I agree, option are good and there are plenty of good kits out there. I just wanted to show some of the details that go into our kits and why it's so important that our kits get tested in real world race cars and run on top.

[boostinjuice]

Great write up. Martin. You need to change what you drive and your location. It still says 8.97 at 165 and from Arlington Heights

[h.funk]

AMS you guys are class guys and there is no need for your kits to be taken lightly. Its hard to have quality and a cheep price. We are consumers and we want the best but we dont want to pay for it

[Shacochis06]

AMS is the BEST thats why everyone takes offense to anything and everything u guys said ( i like how u guys handled the ets thread) they tried to point out all the negatives but really there are no negatives..

you guys are the best wen it comes to the evo platform

[sabastian458]

It is simple. Who's kits are the fastest in an Evo? I seem to recall hearing AMS was on the top of that list. Who's makes more power? Again, AMS.

[h.funk]

^ I dont know about that. ETS has a guy with 1014 hp. Anyway thats not the point

[itzwolf]

This is why I don't regret for one moment going with AMS products on my car, and plan to add many more.

Great writeup Martin

[AutoMotoSports]

Originally Posted by h.funk

^ I dont know about that. ETS has a guy with 1014 hp. Anyway thats not the point

we are currently at 1050 actually. Martin just REALLY need to update his sig and avatar LOL

Eric

[evobeatsti]

yess the pic of the time attack car was taken at miller

[tripperfx3]

I love the hillclimb video of that yellow Evo. Glad to hear its ya'lls kit! Great job guys!

[Billy@EnglishRacing]

the new found ets ams war cracks me up, that hill climb car looks sick, links to more info on the car?

[wroblewskievo]

Originally Posted by h.funk

^ I dont know about that. ETS has a guy with 1014 hp. Anyway thats not the point

he still has yet to break into the eights?