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JaySpec7 · 01-24-2002, 01:53 PM

Hey guys.. great site!!!

My friend has a 97 240SX and I myself have a 93 RX-7.  We have been looking to pictures and install pics everywhere of the XS-Engineering Turbo Kit on the KA24DE 240SX... Well, my friend finally ordered it and I just wanted to post some pics and info, in case you were interested...

XS Turbo Kit
$3300.00 at www.rotormotorsports.com

Includes:
Silvia GT Spec FMIC
Gloss black piping
HKS Pop Off valve
HKS Filter
Turbonetics Wastegate
Vortech Fuel Press Reg
T3/T4 Turbo
Cast Iron RH manifold
Downpipe
Dump tube
In tank Fuel pump
All neccesary gaskets, bolts, nuts, gaskets, hoses and fittings...
and other installation parts.

Hope this helps anyone looking into buy this kit..

More pictures at..
http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit

**West** · 01-24-2002, 01:59 PM

Should you be concerned with this....

Just thought a company should be able to spell car correctly before they engineer and turbo system

Looks real nice though, your wastegate is gonna sound like ass though, but it sounds like you should already know that. HKS is my fav if you ever wanted one that sounded good.

Thanks for the pictures! This is the first time I have seen pictures of this kit!

JaySpec7 · 01-25-2002, 12:12 AM

Hey guys.. is it not a T3/T4 turbo??.. I was looking at it and it doesn't look like the one I had on my honda.. my compressor housing was a lot bigger.. I had the T3/T4E. You guys know more about the different setups for 240s.. but I got 1/2 of it done..
still left is the oil sending/return and some cutting of the bumper support..

I uploaded more pics.. check em out..

the new pictures start from..
DSC00075.JPG
http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/

(Edited by JaySpec7 at 12:13 am on Jan. 25, 2002)

*DSC* · 01-25-2002, 10:43 AM

Nice. What PSI are those kits supposed to run stock? How much WHP do you think that will give you?

fourg63 · 01-25-2002, 11:59 AM

I would strongly suggest a Tial 35mm wastegate.I had a Turblownetics Meltagate and it lasted 4mos.The cool thing about the Tial is that it uses the same flange so it will be an easy swap.

Plus it looks bad ass:

(Edited by fourg63 at 12<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>4 pm on Jan. 25, 2002)

Rcs476 · 01-25-2002, 01:31 PM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from WeST on 1:59 pm on Jan. 24, 2002
Should you be concerned with this....

Just thought a company should be able to spell car correctly before they engineer and turbo system

Looks real nice though, your wastegate is gonna sound like ass though, but it sounds like you should already know that. HKS is my fav if you ever wanted one that sounded good.

Thanks for the pictures! This is the first time I have seen pictures of this kit!
</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

I noticed that also from fresh alloy, but then I fugured it's a play on their name, Xs engineering,  240xs. I'd like to think this, but it's probably not that way.

anthony240 · 01-25-2002, 05:33 PM

It is! check their site out and it lists the kit as a "240xs".

S13Grl · 01-25-2002, 06:01 PM

Definitely cool! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> How hard was the install? Who drilled the oil pan?

tristarx · 01-26-2002, 04:59 AM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">
I noticed that also from fresh alloy, but then I fugured it's a play on their name, Xs engineering, 240xs. I'd like to think this, but it's probably not that way.
</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

Guys, it's a play in their name "XS". I am pretty sure of that because they are my distributor and I can assure you they are not idiots. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

Tx.

Wayne
<a href="http://www.phase2motortrend.com

" target="_blank">http://www.phase2motortrend.com

</a>

whoizrob · 01-26-2002, 11:00 AM

Looks nice, although while the manifold is compact, it looks like it'd flow like shit.  But then again who has the space or cash for a proper manifold =)

On another note, do you know if XS will chop the price if you wish to delete some of the components to substitute with your own?

Rob

drift freaq · 01-26-2002, 11:09 AM

well I lucked out once again. I went to sell my friends z32 vlsd and the guy we sold it to in Irvine is making Turbo manifolds in his welding class in school. He is making one for his s14 and then he is going to make one for my s13. So I may wind up marketing Turbo manifold for our cars stay tuned folks.

JaySpec7 · 01-26-2002, 11:53 AM

They say it should run 6.5 psi out of the box and run about 230 RWHP!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from DSC on 10:43 am on Jan. 25, 2002
Nice. What PSI are those kits supposed to run stock? How much WHP do you think that will give you?
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*DSC* · 01-26-2002, 12:01 PM

whoa! Nice thats like my long term power goal all in one box :o
You can run 6.5psi all day long with no internals done right? Just turbo/more fuel/ecu and you've got ~230whp?
*Sigh* Two years...two years...

Edit: I was just checkin out the pics again...whats up with the innercooler piping? How come it doesn't go in one way and out the other...it goes in and then has a really long pipe going all the way back up and across?

(Edited by DSC at 12<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>3 pm on Jan. 26, 2002)

240racer · 01-26-2002, 12:18 PM

It looks like they are going to run a sidemount intercooler and the piping from the turbo hasn't been run yet, either has the tubing going into the turbo from the filter

*DSC* · 01-26-2002, 01:33 PM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from 240racer on 12:18 pm on Jan. 26, 2002
It looks like they are going to run a sidemount intercooler and the piping from the turbo hasn't been run yet, either has the tubing going into the turbo from the filter</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>If you look at all the pics on his site its a FMIC.
<a href="http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00082.JPG" target='_blank'>http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00082.JPG</a>
<a href="http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00077.JPG" target='_blank'>http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00077.JPG</a>

fourg63 · 01-26-2002, 02:41 PM

I think they did it this way because running it from the left would mean that the battery would have to be relocated.I'm sorry, but I'd rather relocate the battery rather than making the IC piping run twice as long.

240racer · 01-26-2002, 05:35 PM

I think that is pretty bad, you'd think that with all the work they are doing making the intercooler piping a lot shorter would be a priority.

s14guy · 02-05-2002, 07:42 PM

the reason they do this is because it is a factory silvia fmic , and that's the way they come with sr20.At least thats what makes sense to me

*DSC* · 02-05-2002, 08:19 PM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from s14guy on 7:42 pm on Feb. 5, 2002
the reason they do this is because it is a factory silvia fmic , and that's the way they come with sr20.At least thats what makes sense to me</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>IIRC, there's no such thing as a factory silvia fmic, silvias came with smic's.

RacNgi · 02-06-2002, 12:04 AM

THat XS kit is on my 240  we just finshed installing now onto the toubleshooting.  But Your right the piping is long.  Its so you dont have to relocate the battery and the windowwasher to another location.  But there is a lot of body cutting to do.

9591 · 02-06-2002, 04:59 PM

A few notes:
They're not dumb, they know it's a 240sx, not 240xs.
The IC piping *is* dumb.
The turbo is a T4, not a T3/T4 (thereby making whoever it was who put that on their website... dumb).
Deltagates used to have problems. They've benn fixed now (actually, quite some time ago)
You don't *need* an ECU upgrade, as the FMU handles the fuel requirements, up to a point.

Sorry, I was trying to reply to the whole thread in one post.

And another note/question: Do they really say 6.5psi gets 230hp? Because they used to say 5psi gets 227. Sorta odd.

01-24-2002, 01:53 PM	#1
JaySpec7 Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 13 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Hey guys.. great site!!! My friend has a 97 240SX and I myself have a 93 RX-7.  We have been looking to pictures and install pics everywhere of the XS-Engineering Turbo Kit on the KA24DE 240SX... Well, my friend finally ordered it and I just wanted to post some pics and info, in case you were interested... XS Turbo Kit $3300.00 at www.rotormotorsports.com Includes: Silvia GT Spec FMIC Gloss black piping HKS Pop Off valve HKS Filter Turbonetics Wastegate Vortech Fuel Press Reg T3/T4 Turbo Cast Iron RH manifold Downpipe Dump tube In tank Fuel pump All neccesary gaskets, bolts, nuts, gaskets, hoses and fittings... and other installation parts. Hope this helps anyone looking into buy this kit.. More pictures at.. http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit

01-24-2002, 01:59 PM	#2
West OMNOMNOMNOM Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Denver, CO Age: 44 Posts: 6,456 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: West Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Should you be concerned with this.... Just thought a company should be able to spell car correctly before they engineer and turbo system Looks real nice though, your wastegate is gonna sound like ass though, but it sounds like you should already know that. HKS is my fav if you ever wanted one that sounded good. Thanks for the pictures! This is the first time I have seen pictures of this kit!

01-25-2002, 12:12 AM	#3
JaySpec7 Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 13 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Hey guys.. is it not a T3/T4 turbo??.. I was looking at it and it doesn't look like the one I had on my honda.. my compressor housing was a lot bigger.. I had the T3/T4E. You guys know more about the different setups for 240s.. but I got 1/2 of it done.. still left is the oil sending/return and some cutting of the bumper support.. I uploaded more pics.. check em out.. the new pictures start from.. DSC00075.JPG http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/ (Edited by JaySpec7 at 12:13 am on Jan. 25, 2002)

01-25-2002, 10:43 AM	#4
DSC New Title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: VA Posts: 3,454 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Nice. What PSI are those kits supposed to run stock? How much WHP do you think that will give you?

01-25-2002, 11:59 AM	#5
fourg63 Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 40 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I would strongly suggest a Tial 35mm wastegate.I had a Turblownetics Meltagate and it lasted 4mos.The cool thing about the Tial is that it uses the same flange so it will be an easy swap. Plus it looks bad ass: (Edited by fourg63 at 12<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>4 pm on Jan. 25, 2002)

01-25-2002, 01:31 PM	#6
Rcs476 Leaky Injector Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 84 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from WeST on 1:59 pm on Jan. 24, 2002 Should you be concerned with this.... Just thought a company should be able to spell car correctly before they engineer and turbo system Looks real nice though, your wastegate is gonna sound like ass though, but it sounds like you should already know that. HKS is my fav if you ever wanted one that sounded good. Thanks for the pictures! This is the first time I have seen pictures of this kit! </td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> I noticed that also from fresh alloy, but then I fugured it's a play on their name, Xs engineering,  240xs. I'd like to think this, but it's probably not that way.

01-25-2002, 05:33 PM	#7
anthony240 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Norcal Age: 43 Posts: 1,234 Trader Rating: (4) Feedback Score: 4 reviews	It is! check their site out and it lists the kit as a "240xs".

01-25-2002, 06:01 PM	#8
S13Grl Married to the Mob Join Date: Dec 2000 Age: 44 Posts: 3,670 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Definitely cool! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> How hard was the install? Who drilled the oil pan?

01-26-2002, 04:59 AM	#9
tristarx Leaky Injector Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 140 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> I noticed that also from fresh alloy, but then I fugured it's a play on their name, Xs engineering, 240xs. I'd like to think this, but it's probably not that way. </td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> Guys, it's a play in their name "XS". I am pretty sure of that because they are my distributor and I can assure you they are not idiots. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> Tx. Wayne <a href="http://www.phase2motortrend.com " target="_blank">http://www.phase2motortrend.com </a>

01-26-2002, 11:00 AM	#10
whoizrob Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 29 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Looks nice, although while the manifold is compact, it looks like it'd flow like shit.  But then again who has the space or cash for a proper manifold =) On another note, do you know if XS will chop the price if you wish to delete some of the components to substitute with your own? Rob

01-26-2002, 11:09 AM	#11
drift freaq R.I.P. Aya, always love Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Los Feliz/Hollywood Posts: 18,564 Trader Rating: (215) Rides Gallery: drift freaq Feedback Score: 215 reviews	well I lucked out once again. I went to sell my friends z32 vlsd and the guy we sold it to in Irvine is making Turbo manifolds in his welding class in school. He is making one for his s14 and then he is going to make one for my s13. So I may wind up marketing Turbo manifold for our cars stay tuned folks.

01-26-2002, 11:53 AM	#12
JaySpec7 Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 13 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	They say it should run 6.5 psi out of the box and run about 230 RWHP! </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from DSC on 10:43 am on Jan. 25, 2002 Nice. What PSI are those kits supposed to run stock? How much WHP do you think that will give you? </td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

01-26-2002, 12:01 PM	#13
DSC New Title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: VA Posts: 3,454 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	whoa! Nice thats like my long term power goal all in one box :o You can run 6.5psi all day long with no internals done right? Just turbo/more fuel/ecu and you've got ~230whp? Sigh Two years...two years... Edit: I was just checkin out the pics again...whats up with the innercooler piping? How come it doesn't go in one way and out the other...it goes in and then has a really long pipe going all the way back up and across? (Edited by DSC at 12<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>3 pm on Jan. 26, 2002)

01-26-2002, 12:18 PM	#14
240racer Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Minneapolis, MN Age: 46 Posts: 574 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	It looks like they are going to run a sidemount intercooler and the piping from the turbo hasn't been run yet, either has the tubing going into the turbo from the filter

01-26-2002, 01:33 PM	#15
DSC New Title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: VA Posts: 3,454 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from 240racer on 12:18 pm on Jan. 26, 2002 It looks like they are going to run a sidemount intercooler and the piping from the turbo hasn't been run yet, either has the tubing going into the turbo from the filter</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>If you look at all the pics on his site its a FMIC. <a href="http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00082.JPG" target='_blank'>http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00082.JPG</a> <a href="http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00077.JPG" target='_blank'>http://www.jayspec7.com/friendscars/todd/xsturbokit/DSC00077.JPG</a>

01-26-2002, 02:41 PM	#16
fourg63 Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 40 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I think they did it this way because running it from the left would mean that the battery would have to be relocated.I'm sorry, but I'd rather relocate the battery rather than making the IC piping run twice as long.

01-26-2002, 05:35 PM	#17
240racer Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Minneapolis, MN Age: 46 Posts: 574 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I think that is pretty bad, you'd think that with all the work they are doing making the intercooler piping a lot shorter would be a priority.

02-05-2002, 07:42 PM	#18
s14guy Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 34 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	the reason they do this is because it is a factory silvia fmic , and that's the way they come with sr20.At least thats what makes sense to me

02-05-2002, 08:19 PM	#19
DSC New Title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: VA Posts: 3,454 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from s14guy on 7:42 pm on Feb. 5, 2002 the reason they do this is because it is a factory silvia fmic , and that's the way they come with sr20.At least thats what makes sense to me</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>IIRC, there's no such thing as a factory silvia fmic, silvias came with smic's.

02-06-2002, 12:04 AM	#20
RacNgi Leaky Injector Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 54 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	THat XS kit is on my 240  we just finshed installing now onto the toubleshooting.  But Your right the piping is long.  Its so you dont have to relocate the battery and the windowwasher to another location.  But there is a lot of body cutting to do.

02-06-2002, 04:59 PM	#21
9591 Leaky Injector Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 122 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	A few notes: They're not dumb, they know it's a 240sx, not 240xs. The IC piping is dumb. The turbo is a T4, not a T3/T4 (thereby making whoever it was who put that on their website... dumb). Deltagates used to have problems. They've benn fixed now (actually, quite some time ago) You don't need an ECU upgrade, as the FMU handles the fuel requirements, up to a point. Sorry, I was trying to reply to the whole thread in one post. And another note/question: Do they really say 6.5psi gets 230hp? Because they used to say 5psi gets 227. Sorta odd.