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Originally Posted by doritoboy100
Hello everyone,
I'd like to ask you guys before coming to a final decision.
I have a 23 2ss 1le 10spd auto.
I'm looking into getting the hellion twin turbo 62/62 kit. I've looked around and can't really find anything on anyone running this kit. On forums, but it was featured on PowerNation and the fitment, installation, and power results from the episode all turned me on.
I want this to be a street/strip car I can drive on the weekends, around 550-600whp which is what this kit promises and delivers on the powernation episode.
I reached out to the closest tuner I can find, I am located in Tuscaloosa Alabama so I don't know anyone nearby except 3 hours away in Atlanta or 8 hours away on North Carolina, so I came to these guys. They told me not to to turbos because they melt things, and tried to push the whipple kit on me because they're a dealer for them. I would prefer turbos over supercharger for efficiency reasons, looks, and sounds. Plus the whipple is very unattractive to me, the Magnuson looks much better.
So my first question, do these kits melt shit? What if you use ceramic coating and heat wrap, and a turbo shield, and also spark plug wire covers?
And my second question is does anyone know of a tuner that has a base map and can help dial in the fine tuning remotely for this kit? I've reached out to Hellion as well and await their response.
Thanks guys, hoping to have this car on the track this year!
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I wanted to bring this back up and I read all of this with great interest because I believe the Hellion kit is extremely interesting. I like it because; (1) the power delivered vs. amount of boost appears to be fantastic, (2) no belt to break, slip, or change based on pully configuration, (3) no fluid to leak from cooling, (4) no water circulation to worry about. My main issue is they seem very rare. There is the one done by Jannetty (I try to read every post he produces), I think a member that goes by "hitmix300" did one, and there was another member "6thgenmadness" that was considering one. At the end of the day, I'm concerned about the low number of users. I feel like if I get a Maggy 2650 and upgrade my fuel system (toohighpsi) to run E85, I can get plenty of support on the forum if I have issues, however, I don't have that level of confidence that I can get advice if there are issues, long term, with Hellion. I do know their support is said to be good, but coming from a support background, I like to have multiple references. Two builds that interest me are Laynlo and Mike's son at "toohighpsi". Stock internals with added fuel and a 2650, running reasonable boost, making great power. Everything is a trade off. Any comments?