K SERIES TURBO KITS

[tuner69]

ive heard of a few people buying these lately but no idea where from... any one know where to purchase one of these ginuine hks k series kits from?

cheers oliver.

[Lloyd]

Make your own

Didn't know HKS did them. Would be interesting to see a complete kit

[RS13]

Make your own! It would be a lot cheaper, I'd say.. if you went fairly rangi, you could probably get it done (and somewhat reliable) for less than $500! In fact, when I was pricing up a turbo kit for my old 4K, the most expensive item was the intercooler piping, followed by the exhaust manifold! I'd PM crankn, from memory, he was the 4K turbo master..

[Dell'Orto]

Good luck finding an HKS kit, they went out of production in the 80's I think They pop up from time to time on TM...but yeah, they're not hard to do yourself if you've got a clue.
Or I could sell you a supercharger setup for a reasonable price

[IH8TEC]

Good luck finding an HKS kit, they went out of production in the 80's I think They pop up from time to time on TM...but yeah, they're not hard to do yourself if you've got a clue.
Or I could sell you a supercharger setup for a reasonable price

or you coul dhurry up and put it on your car brad

[TOYROTA]

how much you want for the s/charger kit bro? i would be very keen on that if you were bein serious

[tuner69]

yeah my original plan was to make one hence im still at college and have the work shop to do so.. but im finishing school soon so building one my self would become a bit of a mission but im still keen, you say its relativly cheap to do it your self , lets say if i got an engineer to do all the fabrication would that be worth it

{HRT}

Make your own

Didn't know HKS did them. Would be interesting to see a complete kit

here you go- http://page10.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m35229311

[tuner69]

Good luck finding an HKS kit, they went out of production in the 80's I think They pop up from time to time on TM...but yeah, they're not hard to do yourself if you've got a clue.
Or I could sell you a supercharger setup for a reasonable price

hows about that supercharger kit

[matt dunn]

Didn't know HKS did them. Would be interesting to see a complete kit

here you go- http://page10.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m35229311

I remember that kit !
Main thing I remember is the air cleaner with HKS Street Turbo on it.

Dad had one in the early 80's on his starlet race car.

Went really well, but at more than 15psi the seals in the carb could not hold the pressure in and blew fuel out the seals and it caught on fire.

After the repair's he built a complete steel box to completly enclose the carb and pressurise the outside of the carb aswell.

Last I remeber the kit was on a DX corolla Road car from a guy in my polytech course about 7 or 8 years ago.

No idea where it is now.

Matt

[RS13]

Search and ye shall find..

I believe he was running a cut n' shut factory exhaust manifold, T2 turbo out of an ET turbo Pulsar, SU carb off a triumph something (TC2500?), wasn't intercooled or anything though, super rangi setup. From memory, it was running 5-6psi, which was the limit for factory pistons etc.. I'm pretty sure it ended up sticking a leg outta bed, had problems sorting out a decent oil feed.

And that was on a pretty tired motor, I'm pretty sure he said that the failure was due to the oil feed being filled with sludge that blocked everything up, starved the bearings and *bang*.

Here is the link to the previous 4K turbo thread..

viewtopic.php?p=271379

Also, you may want to look at the possibility of adapting a Honda City Turbo intake setup to the 4K, from memory the early non-widebody ones were carb turbo? It would be as cheap as chips, and designed for boost, so I'd imagine it would be fairly reliable.

[Mr Revhead]

Last I remeber the kit was on a DX corolla Road car from a guy in my polytech course about 7 or 8 years ago

i remember that too! and it was more like 10 years ago


i also recall it not being that impressive, due to the muppet who built the engine i beleive

[Lloyd]

HKS is a single carby suck through? Cheap and dodgy way to do it I reckon. Go twin carb blow through

[crnkin]

I'd PM crankn, from memory, he was the 4K turbo master..

haha.

My advice: dont bother

[matt dunn]

HKS is a single carby suck through? Cheap and dodgy way to do it I reckon. Go twin carb blow through

No, still used the originl carb setup and just blew thru it,
which is why we blew the seals out of the carb.

And yea Mr revhead, the last known owner was a guy who made it slow.
Used the low comp twin squish pistons and the std head to give compression so low that at 10psi it would almost keep up with a std 4K.

Matt

[Lloyd]

Duh, stupid me. Its obviously blow through. I must have been looking at it with my eyes shut.

Why are people wanting turbo 4Ks rather than stepping up the capacity to a 5K to turbo?

[Dell'Orto]

4K's are far easier to get hold of than 5K's, plus you can get about 3 4K's for the going rate of a 5K.

[RS13]

4K's are far easier to get hold of than 5K's, plus you can get about 3 4K's for the going rate of a 5K.

True that. I once got a mint 4K-J for $80, my KP never knew what hit it!

[Lloyd]

Fair enough about the price, but if you're doing a turbo setup then you're spending a bit to start with so may as well spend an extra $150 and get a bigger motor. Guess you could say the same for 7Ks if they weren't such a big step up in price and the need to get aftermarket rods into them

Bolt a couple of 4Ks together and make a straight 8 out of them

[drftnmaz]

i've had a 4k and 5k turbo (still run the 5k daily) and the 4k's rev sooo much better and the 5k's are bloody good at blowing diffs and axels.



and that hks kit on yahoo auctions has the wrong carb with it... it has vac operated sec on it LOL


i wouldnt boost a 7k unless you got it dirt cheap becasue the rods are thin as match sticks.

[Lloyd]

Haha, dirt cheap 7Ks. Do they exist? All seem to be at least $800