$3,500 Single Turbo Kit vs. $8,100 Twin Turbo Kit | HiLow

We bought two identical Nissan 350z’s and have been modifying them to be FUN, daily drivers that you can take to the track. Team Hi (James Pumphrey & Zach Jobe) get the expensive parts and Team Low (Nolan Sykes & Aaron Parker) get the cheap ones. Then we test them to see which components are actually worth spending the money on.

If you want more power out of your Z, you really have to go forced induction. Which basically means, forcing more air into the engine to get more combustion. So in this episode we're installing turbochargers.

Hi Team went with a Jim Wolf Technologies twin turbo kit. It’s high quality across the board. Best materials, it’s been through lots of R&D, everything should bolt up easily. But it’s $8000 DOLLARS! That’s more than we paid for the actual car! Can that possibly be worth it?

It comes with two Garrett GT25 turbos. Garrett is one of the most trusted brands of turbo. It also comes with all the piping, plumbing and pieces you could ever ask for. Sometimes with these kits, the plumbing won’t fit quite right so you’ll find yourself having to do fabrication or calling your friend who knows how to weld. But with this expensive kit, theoretically everything should bolt right up and we won’t have to get our Tinker Boyz on. Part of that $8000 price tag.

It was designed to be an OEM+ set-up with OEM reliability in mind, which means it shouldn’t require a lot of attention from you once its in--another benefit. It comes with its’ own piggyback box which talks with the car’s ECU or computer, and the right one can save you a lot of time and effort.

These turbos are good for up to 530 hp, which is beneficial in two ways. If you do choose to go FULL hot boi down the line, you won’t need to upgrade your turbos, you can just keep these. The other benefit is that because these are way more than what we’re going to be throwing at them, they’re not likely to be a failure point.

Team Low went with a Rev9 turbo kit, purchased on Amazon for $2400. It’s a single turbo kit. It comes with a turbonetics 60-1 turbo and a turbonetics evolution 38mm external wastegate. That’s one of the reasons we chose this kit. The turbocharger itself is the part of any turbo kit that is the most likely to fail. So even though this kit is “cheap”, I know with a name-brand, at least the turbo itself should be fine.

This kit only includes the hard parts and doesn’t come with any software to help tell the ECU what’s going on. So in addition to the kit, we also had to buy an UpRev software license.

We’re gonna show you our super long journey to get these things installed, then we dyno them to see who makes more power!

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[jechraisini]

45 mins, this is a Netflix original episode of high and low

[Akuyah.official]

This series should be called: Watching Nolan's warm soul slowly leave his body

[mr.stankers]

Aaron smiling with the oil leaking is a testament to his patience. Definitely my favorite donut member, although idk if hes still around.

[xWhiteRice]

I saw a tweet that asked “why do all of mens hobbies make them so angry?” and this entire channel is a textbook example

[theupman]

Am I the only one thinking this would be an amazing Netflix show

[SEThatered]

Donut Media is a Top Gear's long lost bastard child.
In a good way.

[aaronf]

Nolan’s increasing “done-ness” as the project drags on is all of us

[alexhills]

The fact that Nolan’s car spits flames is pretty cool

[Cygnuslor]

I didn't think it'd be this difficult to install a turbo, usually, I just go to the safe house and press upgrade.
P.S. Magnificent job guys.

[olzzydlzzy]

44 minutes the gods have blessed us with MO RUNTIME BABEH

[brendenknight]

I know I’m a couple of years late but can we just appreciate the effort from this whole team from the leads to the mechanics to the editors to the shop hands. Just an amazing episode. Legit tv quality up and down drama and action. Love this video

[andrewcampbell]

James: cranks starter for 20 seconds and then proceeds to try 5 more times to start it within a minute
Starter catches on fire
Crew: *Surprised pikachu face*

[SethMarcell]

30 min in, this is the MOST TENSE donut episode ever.

[lctimbs]

If there is another season of Hi-Low, I'd like to see Nolan get the expensive parts.

[Mrtrevbot]

Everyone needs someone like Aaron on the team. He's so positive, a great motivator, and a teacher to Nolan. Keeps Nolan cool under pressure.

[jacobknollinger]

Donut: makes fun of car build deadlines

Also Donut: Misses track trip build deadline

[Zomby]

I’m seriously confused how a $3500 car part doesn’t come with instructions or the right parts

[crystalclear]

The crack in the block was from the thread tape they put on that pressure fitting. Never use thread tape on any sort of fitting that threads into aluminum cuz it will stretch the casting and crack it.

[pierreanton]

This Video scares me of modifiying my own car...







But im still gonna do it






And going to have problems

[epicraptorman]

Do a weight reduction episode. Low car: gutted interior. High car: CF hood/hatch/etc