Best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?

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Juans_93_MX3
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Best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?

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Did some research and didnt come up with anything except a T3 turbo. Dosent sound right to me, anyway, in your guys opinion, whats the best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?
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Re: Best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?

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depends how much boost you want to run..
un my case I found that the t3/t04e 57 trim was the best for overall power and got lots of place for imporvements..spool fast and doesn't stop till all hell
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Re: Best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?

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I've got a t3/t04B S trim. Its what came stock on buick grand nationals and powers those huge heavy cars into the 11's all the time.


I've looked at some compressor maps and it is the most efficient on our engine right around 15 psi. Thats what I plan to push. Waiting on my heavily acid ported intake mani so I can mock up my top feed injectors with rails then I can get the standalone in and running! 12's here I come.

10 psi feels awesome right now and has held up great so obviously I am wanting more...
94 Mazda MX3 GS - 395 whp 397 ft lbs untuned on pump gas and stock KLDE 15 psi boost. now running 16 psi and E85.. numbers=? 425ish whp
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Re: Best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?

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Originally posted by rebel2k4:
I've got a t3/t04B S trim. Its what came stock on buick grand nationals and powers those huge heavy cars into the 11's all the time.


I've looked at some compressor maps and it is the most efficient on our engine right around 15 psi. Thats what I plan to push. Waiting on my heavily acid ported intake mani so I can mock up my top feed injectors with rails then I can get the standalone in and running! 12's here I come.

10 psi feels awesome right now and has held up great so obviously I am wanting more...
where did you get your IM acid ported ?
you're runnning 10psi now ? you should update your sig :)
planning running 12's on stock internals ?
great to see things are going good for you
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Re: Best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?

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Originally posted by babyblueMX3:
QUOTE] Where did you get your IM acid ported ?
you're runnning 10psi now ? you should update your sig :)
planning running 12's on stock internals ?
great to see things are going good for you
Yes I do plan to run 12's on stock internals. PGT guys do it all the time. Unfortunately I am at altitude but I think I can pull it off :)

Mazdamiester off mx6.com is a good friend of mine. He did me an acid ported and de vrised intake mani. Said he went a little overboard with it, because I had asked him to.. heheh
I'm going to port/polish it even more when it gets here.

I am very happy to have a modded car hold up for once. I really learned a lot when I modded my 1st gen mx6, blew 3 motors along the way and so I have been taking things slow and easy.

I got rid of the stock exhaust finally and now I have a 2.5" turbo-back, no cat, back to a plain oval turbo chamber muffler :) stealthy look and wow. Huge power increase.
I drove it home from the muffler shop, hit boost and it was climbing to like 14 psi, when I had set it to 10 for the longest time! I had to turn down my boost controller!
Check out my cardomain, I got a lot of info on there...
94 Mazda MX3 GS - 395 whp 397 ft lbs untuned on pump gas and stock KLDE 15 psi boost. now running 16 psi and E85.. numbers=? 425ish whp
04 GSXR 600- full exh, power commander 3, int turn signals, etc
98 Ford Ranger 3.0L
01 YZ250- most fun vehicle Ive ever owned.
95 Eclipse- built 420a, 60-1, megasquirt, 371 whp @ 17 psi, dsm-broken-car-curse
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Re: Best turbo for a KLZE or KLDE?

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I was gonna say "holly ****e! 12PSI on a stock internals ZE!?!?" But than i realised you have a DE

Props for turbo-ing a 2.5 MX-3! :2thumbsup: :driver:
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