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Old Dec 4, 2006 | 03:24 PM
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In the distant future I eventually wanted to go with a procharger for my 2004 V6. But then I started researching them, and realized that several boltons would be useless and I would have to take them off. Now I'm extremely cheap and don't like to waste anything. I don't want to get, say a CAI and UDP's, and then have to take them off a year or two when I wanna go with a blower.

So I got to thinking... Can I still have a CAI and UDP's with a turbo? I definately wanna go F/I. I want to make this car a track car and get, say, a Jeep Wrangler for a DD. Or is a turbo similar to a blower, and I'd have to take off the CAI and UDP's?
Old Dec 4, 2006 | 03:48 PM
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you'll have to modify the cold air intake to be usable, it really depends on how you route the piping for everything. a cai for a naturally aspirated engine may not have good enough couplings to hold up under boost. underdrive pulleys should work fine though. if you go with nitrous, you can have pulleys and a cai no problem. if you want something that's going to work regardless of what you do, look into getting a tuner
Old Dec 4, 2006 | 04:40 PM
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how much boost do you want to run are you talking 5 to 11 or are you talking over 15
Old Dec 5, 2006 | 02:51 AM
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Well, I plan on a SSM powerpak and forged rods, pistons, and crank, so probably around 15ish psi or so. Something that'll give me nice HP numbers, but nothing rediculous. I'm not looking for 750 rwhp, lol.
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