what's involved with turboing the motor in my P5?

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vw2p5

Quickest, cheapest way to Turbo my car?

I am thinking about pieceing together a turbo kit for the stock 2.0l motor in my protege 5, what all would I be looking at getting to make this happen? which motor for our cars has the turbo that will just bolt right on to the motor, is it the msp, or the mp3?
 
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come on scratch... one? helll there are like 100... not to include the build thread i just made... well rather gave advice to :-)

are u boosted ?
 
I am not boosted...neither is he...I meant on the "new posts" page at the time there was one...now there are two...lol...
 
vw2p5 said:
thanks for the link. I was wondering if it would be cheaper for me to find a used turbo out of an MSP and put that in my car instead of buying the parts to turbo it?
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Probably cheaper but I would plan a lot more money then it will actually cost for when things go wrong.
 
If you come here asking, then mabe you lack knowledge. Maybe read more. But yeah msp is the cheapest way to go.Imo thats about the power a stock p5 can hold(ok maybe a bit more) but to stay out of trouble and have a nice bump in power, best option. And if you know what you are doing you can get some good deal on used parts. And you can save lots of money if you install it yourself.
 
alexelie said:
If you come here asking, then mabe you lack knowledge. Maybe read more. But yeah msp is the cheapest way to go.Imo thats about the power a stock p5 can hold(ok maybe a bit more) but to stay out of trouble and have a nice bump in power, best option. And if you know what you are doing you can get some good deal on used parts. And you can save lots of money if you install it yourself.
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I can be patient, and wait for some good deals to come about. I'm kinda new at this, I've always wanted a turboed car and I would like to turbo my protege. With kids, the car has the room now I would like it to have a little more power. I also have a freind that is willing to help me with the turboing, and that is why I was asking on here as well cause I am not 100% sure on what I am doing. So any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
If you want to turbo your car, don't skip. Save up and do it right. Cheap turbo set-up = engine go BOOM. I tried the cheap route on a Civic I had, and it ALWAYS seemed like I needed another part, another piece, stuff didn't work together, or things broke, because they were cheap.

There are quite a few complete kits out there that run about $2-$3k that'll give you all you need.

Or you can go my route and do a MSP swap.
 
aright, lets cut the pissing contest.

they're right though. you can have a turbo kit that is one of 2 things: cheap or reliable. not both. if you cut corners, you will live to regret it.. a local P5er experienced exactly this... he stripped the car down to stock and sold it before it blew up... but i guarantee you its due to his hack jobbed turbo kit that it did.
 
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