Newbie questions

[Deaththakid93]

What is the best coil overs to run on a 98? And best turbo to make the most power?
New to the dsm world, just got my dream car and looking for advice Tia!

 

[SixBolt_16G]

What is the best coil overs to run on a 98? And best turbo to make the most power?
New to the dsm world, just got my dream car and looking for advice Tia!

Coilovers options are limited these days.
Your question is too vague. You have to decide whether you want to focus on a daily driver, street, road, drag or just carving the backroads on the weekends. YOu could easily overspend for features youll never use or underspend and underperform. So there is no "best" until you tell us more about what youre after. Same thing with turbos. Its gonna matter if youre FWD or AWD, but youll need supporting mods or you wont get close to running the "best" turbo.

If youre just looking for top level just to be top level.. then there is Feal, Fortune Auto and Flatout

 

[curt-s]

Best turbo to make the most power?
That's too vague as well.
The bigger the turbo the worse the lag.

It's generally, but contentiously, accepted that the best "performing" turbo for our platform is a real E3 16g in terms of capability and spool characteristics.
Capable of pretty incredible power for its size, yet its street manners are nearly unmatched outside of something twin scroll. Of course, to get maximum power, you need to do other things to shift your powerband more to the right than stock setups allow for. Bigger Cams, cam timing, etc.
All that then takes a toll on its performance in low and mid rpm ranges.

So you need to list your use case, budget, capability, etc. to match against a power adder.

To ask which is the best and makes the most power, well.. something like this

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[CKOPOCT]

Are you new to modifying cars for performance as well, especially fuel injected cars? If so, there's a LOT of reading, researching, and learning that you should engage in before pulling the trigger on a new turbo. Suggest you start reading here:

https://www.dsmtuners.com/threads/2g-dsm-upgrade-paths.486217/

 

[Deaththakid93]

Coilovers options are limited these days.
Your question is too vague. You have to decide whether you want to focus on a daily driver, street, road, drag or just carving the backroads on the weekends. YOu could easily overspend for features youll never use or underspend and underperform. So there is no "best" until you tell us more about what youre after. Same thing with turbos. Its gonna matter if youre FWD or AWD, but youll need supporting mods or you wont get close to running the "best" turbo.

If youre just looking for top level just to be top level.. then there is Feal, Fortune Auto and Flatout

I guess best is the wrong terminology, it’s awd, it’s going to be a daily for a little bit then it will be a weekend car set up drag/street, thank you for the reply!

Best turbo to make the most power?
That's too vague as well.
The bigger the turbo the worse the lag.

It's generally, but contentiously, accepted that the best "performing" turbo for our platform is a real E3 16g in terms of capability and spool characteristics.
Capable of pretty incredible power for its size, yet its street manners are nearly unmatched outside of something twin scroll. Of course, to get maximum power, you need to do other things to shift your powerband more to the right than stock setups allow for. Bigger Cams, cam timing, etc.
All that then takes a toll on its performance in low and mid rpm ranges.

So you need to list your use case, budget, capability, etc. to match against a power adder.

To ask which is the best and makes the most power, well.. something like this

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Thanks for your reply, I get it’s vague and best is probably the wrong terminology, the car is already “built” it eagle everything in the block, the head again is “built” the reason I use quotations is the guy I bought it from lost the paperwork on the car and it’s sat for the last 9 years. I’ve opened up the valve cover and it has bigger cams and all that fun stuff. It has a bigger turbo on it now, just looking for advice on people’s favorite turbos to make power, I’m shooting for 500-700 to the wheels.

Are you new to modifying cars for performance as well, especially fuel injected cars? If so, there's a LOT of reading, researching, and learning that you should engage in before pulling the trigger on a new turbo. Suggest you start reading here:

https://www.dsmtuners.com/threads/2g-dsm-upgrade-paths.486217/

I’m not new but I’m new to the dsm platform, and overall just looking for advice and my terminology was wrong by saying best, I’m looking for people’s favorites.

 

[curt-s]

No paperwork, sat for 9 years... I'd be pulling the thing apart and getting things inspected/measured to make sure it's even built properly for that kind of power. Your margins for error become increasingly slim the higher you go

 

[Deaththakid93]

No paperwork, sat for 9 years... I'd be pulling the thing apart and getting things inspected/measured to make sure it's even built properly for that kind of power. Your margins for error become increasingly slim the higher you go

In the process of pulling everything apart.

 

[99dsmer4g63]

The guy was probably full of shit and it’s a clapped out motor with 200k worth of no oil changes or maintenance.

I promise you this much. One thing you never do is believe what the guy is telling you that you are buying a dsm from. That is rule number one in my book.

If he said it’s built it’s probably 75% chance that it’s not.

If he said it just needs a tune it probably does along with all the half ass shit he did fixed first.

In seriousness though I do wish the best of luck and welcome to the forum. All the information you need is on this site. What you do with it is your decision.

-Daniel

 

[Deaththakid93]

The guy was probably full of shit and it’s a clapped out motor with 200k worth of no oil changes or maintenance.

I promise you this much. One thing you never do is believe what the guy is telling you that you are buying a dsm from. That is rule number one in my book.

If he said it’s built it’s probably 75% chance that it’s not.

If he said it just needs a tune it probably does along with all the half ass shit he did fixed first.

In seriousness though I do wish the best of luck and welcome to the forum. All the information you need is on this site. What you do with it is your decision.

-Daniel

I appreciate it!
Looking forward to working on it
It definitely doesn’t have 200k on it, I did get in touch with the the old shop owner here the city I live in that worked on it and it’s mildly built so whatever that’s worth.
The dude I bought it from is someone I’ve known for 18 years don’t think he’s full of shit but I’m sure he wasn’t 100% truthful about what’s wrong with it