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So when is there going to be a turbo kit production for the ez30? Or if anyone is selling their's I'll be quite interested

No one does a bolt on style kit as far as I'm aware.
But A&M auto up the Sunshine Coast in QLD has done a fair few turbo EZ motors. They'd be the ones to speak to about one.

I wouldn't do it on a daily (at least not until you had it bedded down) and there's no 'kit' but any good performance shop should be able to make one up for you. It won't be cheap though - lots of labour in fab work, and lots of cost in doing it right, all the extra bits and pieces.

Have you looked into the raptor sc kits? Good power, warranty and plenty of people running them, cheaper and will probably get close to the same power

As one Subaru tuner says "if you want to turbo an H6 liberty, maybe you should have originally bought a turbo GT-B"?

BillyCorgi wrote:As one Subaru tuner says "if you want to turbo an H6 liberty, maybe you should have originally bought a turbo GT-B"?

They've probably never worked on a modern engine eitehr....

You're looking at $10K drive in drive out for a GT30, FMIC, Exhaust, etc. all new parts,
You'd save some coin by hunting up a good, used turbo, EWG and FMIC core.
that's going to nearly double the power output on an unopened EZ30.
you can dump $10K into an 80's tech EJ25 in a GT-B, still not make the power, and have a pig of a car to drive every day...

^^^ lol

Turbo Yoda is doing another one as we .. err .. type.

If you don't like H6 turbos, you've probably never driven one of ours.

There "may" be a bolt kit in the future, but not any time soon.

Robbks wrote:

BillyCorgi wrote:As one Subaru tuner says "if you want to turbo an H6 liberty, maybe you should have originally bought a turbo GT-B"?

They've probably never worked on a modern engine eitehr....

You're looking at $10K drive in drive out for a GT30, FMIC, Exhaust, etc. all new parts,
You'd save some coin by hunting up a good, used turbo, EWG and FMIC core.
that's going to nearly double the power output on an unopened EZ30.
you can dump $10K into an 80's tech EJ25 in a GT-B, still not make the power, and have a pig of a car to drive every day...

$10k would trivially give you 250kw atw in a GT-B, more than double the stock H6 figure - and drive better than stock, and with the leftover money you could put shockworks in it. A H6 turbo is awesome, but it's far from a trivial exercise to be undertaken on a whim. OP has left almost all details out of the info request, so we're really just making it up here.

HardwareBoB wrote:$10k would trivially give you 250kw atw in a GT-B, more than double the stock H6 figure - and drive better than stock, and with the leftover money you could put shockworks in it. A H6 turbo is awesome, but it's far from a trivial exercise to be undertaken on a whim. OP has left almost all details out of the info request, so we're really just making it up here.

Exactly the figure of a H6 running about 8 psi.
Better engine, better off-boost performance, better economy, better technology, better longevity from the engine,

I love turbo H6's...but let's be honest, $10k is pretty optimistic.

Straight from the Horses mouth.

Think that was enough tuning to get it mobile

The only difficulty/downside to installing a turbo on an H6 is the physical installation. The fact that it's uncommon and needs a little more $$ for custom jobbie.

After that - every bit of $$ invested will give you more of everything vs same $$ invested in an EJ255, performance wise - as Rob said.

For a street car, a GTB is cheaper/easier to get to 200-250kw. IMO above that - the H6 takes over and keeps going in terms of value. Goodluck building a 900hp race engine with a 4 banger EJ255. Even an EJ207 with all it's amazeballs bits and pieces is missing 50% cubic inches compared to the 3.0L. That's your torque down low and the ability to spool up a gt40r right there.

Which horse are you referring to rob?

alexeiwoody wrote:The only difficulty/downside to installing a turbo on an H6 is the physical installation. The fact that it's uncommon and needs a little more $$ for custom jobbie.

After that - every bit of $$ invested will give you more of everything vs same $$ invested in an EJ255, performance wise - as Rob said.

For a street car, a GTB is cheaper/easier to get to 200-250kw. IMO above that - the H6 takes over and keeps going in terms of value. Goodluck building a 900hp race engine with a 4 banger EJ255. Even an EJ207 with all it's amazeballs bits and pieces is missing 50% cubic inches compared to the 3.0L. That's your torque down low and the ability to spool up a gt40r right there.

EJ255 glass issues aside, I think the H6s advantage is generally on the street - in a race car, you don't really need to care about low end torque, and it's relatively well known how to get 4-500kw out of an EJ2xx, but honestly by the time you are making that sort of power, the original build of the engine is less relevant.

H6 turbo is the path less travelled for a lot of reasons, and it may be better in some ways, but critically, it doesn't make an EJ 2xx crap, as some have said.