The turbo kits I have seen are pretty much hidden except for the exhaust, usually exiting on the right side of the belly pan. At low boosts, the reliability is quite high.
In my opinion, nitrous isn't hidden power. The bottle is butt ugly obvious. Ok for drag racing classes that allow it.
But nothing besides a supercharger can come close to a turbocharged engine.
And soon enough, we'll have a supercharger for the ZX14, though I don't want to know the price, it will be high.
Don't bother with nitrous. All it is, is a 10 second blast, and do it enough times and you will be paying for a new top end.
The problem with you kids, is you watched the Fast and the Furious movies and think nitrous is good on the street. It isn't.
If I want horsepower, the ultimate source is displacement, stroke, and head flowing. I'd have Carpenter Race Engines give me 1445 cc with the valves, porting, cams, pistons, rods, crank, and strengthened clutch all up to the task. If I wanted more, I'd hang a turbocharger on it.
Then I could ride around all day long and have it when I needed it, as often as I needed it.
* Last updated by: privateer on 9/2/2010 @ 4:06 AM *
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