# JGS KA24E Turbo Kits **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jgs-ka24e-turbo-kits/120279 "2008-12-02T09:55:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![NVmySX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f07891/32.png) [@NVmySX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/NVmySX)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jgs-ka24e-turbo-kits/120279/3 "2008-12-02T16:37:15Z")
> [@FS: The Gayzer](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-the-gayzer/15115/26): > > That’s a pretty disappointing kit considering you have to bring it over the border and pay duties and taxes on it. If you’re going KA-T, the beauty of it is being able to do more on a budget. That manifold looks like the china saturday night specials. It doesn’t even say what kind of wastegate it is. Do you really want to be burned by a crappy wastegate? It’s something so crucial. You can make a better KA-T setup with mani, wastegate, turbo oil lines and downpipe for under 1k here without sourcing it from the border. > > Any specific reason as to doing a turbo KA24E? You can get KA24DE’s free or cheap, and you can build it up while you still drive your KA24E well i was searching a topic on SOHC blocks with DOHC heads installed on them for higher compression ratios and i came across that site … jus wanted to get an opinion about the kit … id rather go NA with my KA24E … but the topic i mention with the sohc block & dohc head would be sweet to do … unless i grab a ka24de and get ka24e pistons n install those into the dohc head … im jus wondering if it would be a lot of work to it that way and what the cost would be … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jgs-ka24e-turbo-kits/120279)._