We have been looking at fabricating a turbo kit for LT1 F-bodys. What kind of interest is there in that particular kit?

 

i'm sure you going to get an intrest just put out the product that is priced right and works well with decent parts, it will sell how much will it sell? it all depends you have to undestand lt1s are not as popular as ls1s so probably half of what you would sell for a ls1.
What kind of kit do you think of making?

 

I think there will be alot of interest in a kit for a lt1.

Im pretty sure there are a decent number more lt1's running around here then LS1's but it seems like alot of times people with a large enough budget to do a lot have a LS1.

Everyone and there dog can say they want something, but if they cant afford it thats another story, i think if you calculated a round about price for it you could get the answers you need.

Id be interested depending on cost.

 

If I had to ball partk the price I would say a single turbo kit would be betwwen 4500 and 5500.

 

ok il put in my 2 cents... i have 2 ideas:

1. APS type kit for the LT1 that would be pretty cool.

2. single kit that can keep all accessories and either not have to modify the radiator or come with a radiator if it needs to be modified. to be honest realquicks parts that i have (havent seen in person yet but have seen pics of others installed) is almost perfect and requires only a little playing with the radiator from what iv seen. also a full exhaust system option would be awesome too.


you can use my car to test on....

 

nobody is interested....

 

Yes please.

 

I thought about starting a buisness and offering a complete BASIC turbo kit for the cost of a base supercharger kit. Easily keep all accessories stock with stock rad with stock like plug access, and be able to make 600-700rwhp easy.

Dont forget it all installs in one day.

Doing all this while im still getting a good profit at that great price =D

 

Where is that perfect world. We have years in the business, great reputation and still are concerned about building kits. It seems every company that goes this route ends up out of business and bashed over the internet. We are trying to avoid that by getting some input before we get started. If interest is high we will probably build them, and if interest is low then obviously not. We will also be taking peoples suggestions to heart and trying to impliment them into the kits.

 

Nah if anyone is capable of doing it and doing it reliably you guys can. I have the perfect idea for a simple kit That can be put together for cheap. My car is a custom FM 76mm setup on it so I have a good idea on what things cost. It could be done (base kit price) for 4k easy with a large profit margin still (and I figured that with me paying full retail on all the parts).

A base supercharger kit normally does not include a intercooler or the likes, does not include anything more than a FMU (sts has a tune i believe?), and they tend to be very basic in general. The base kit would have to resemble these kits in nature to give you a competitive edge. Then all you have to do Is have "add ons" to the kit that cost so much extra. Thats where you get people sucked in buying all the other goodies (injectors, fuel pumps, BOV, etc...), maybe we can call them impluse items? lol.

Basicly the turbo setup would need to be easy and simple to install. Keep as much stock as possible, be runnable out of the box (like a vortech sc kit), and have lot of upgrade available.

It would turn the turbo world upside down. A very few proud people have turbo lt1's right now. That would change fast with a well thought out and price kit.

 

I am very interested as well as many more, but they're not all in CZ28.com. Interest is there. Start off by building a kit.

I would like the kit to be able to keep all the accessories and minimal modifications to make it fit.

 

If you read around about peoples problems with kits sold like this its the utter lack of instructions for installation and customer support for problems, if you cant provide excellent instructions and customer service you would probably fail just the same as the others.

 

Honestly, if you dont make an LS1 kit and just do LT1, then you'll be fine. The LS1 demand is so high, that companies that provide LT1 and LS1 kits, they let the LT1 just fall to the way side inorder to keep up with LS1 stuff.

 

while i see your point and its a good one, people shouldnt buy a turbo kit if they do not know anything about them. people who want to turbo their car should read up before jumping into it. going turbo isnt for the faint hearted if you know what im mean.

good customer support really is key to buisness. iv been buying stuff left and right this past year and have learned alot about different companies, some il never go back to again just for the fact that they had horrible customer support for the small guy. everyone should be treated like they are part of a top end race team. VRE in my mind shouldnt have any problems in this department iv had nothing put positive encounters with eric.

 

i have always wanted a turbo v8 but the lack of a decent affordable BOLT ON kit steered me away when i just did my motor. but to be honest if you put together an affordable kit i would buy one