I'm definitely not an expert with turbos, but was given a chance to drive one of their cars at St. Anthony a few months ago. We were at Devil's dune...the large bowl when the guys from Alticity pulled up. The machine I drove was a 900 and it screamed with power. I took a few trips around the bowl and also down through the middle and up the most steep section...never came close to running out of power. I can only imagine what their turbo would do on the 1000.

 

Looks great wonder the price

 

Updates on this anyone?? All I hear about is MCX, K&T, and Boondocker!

 

Says $5900 on their site. The standalone ECU is interesting.

 

Would you install just a ECU by itself and see any improvement?

 

Its comparable with all the other turbo kits as far as price and options. Just haven't heard anything about them.

 

I called Alba Racing the other day. They use the API turbo on the 900&1000.
They love their turbos. They don't have to spend hours on a dyno tuning the utv for hours. API tunes itself. They said they won't even consider installing a turbo without low compression pistons. They also use k&T

 

Very nice kit and pretty cool guys. Ran into them at the dunes a few times. They also make clutches that are very nice and heavy duty like stm.

 

Just bought one for xp4 1000. Goes in next week. I only run Dumont. Will post results.

 

API was at the Side X Side wars in Dumont this Friday and their car was very fast on a 2014 Xp1k-4 seater, it was beating the Boondocker car .Both cars had stock bottom ends the BD car has rods. the API car walked away from it up the hill. After I talked to BD and API about their kits and booth looked nice but the API guys said here is the keys drive it with your Girlfriend,Take it! WOW They did not even know us . They just answered all my Questions and said Drive it! This thing was Awesome the way the Clutching and power were just so spot on that I will definitely be looking at them for all my Clutching & Turbo needs for my 2015 XP1K-4 . what a nice group of stand up guys! Thank you API.

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Very cool of them!!

 

Statement retracted.

 

I think the API kit may the best kit ever offered. EFR turbo, AEM plug and play stand alone, nice intercooler too.

Very exciting. I wonder which AEM ECU that is and how it connects? Does it just plug in? Do you have to move pins or worse yet re-pin the harness? Maybe there is an adapter?

 

Just plug it into factory wiring and good to go.

 

Talked to Dave at API today, doesn't get any nicer nor more knowledgeable. I don't understand why they aren't at the top of the heap. If you want turbo, seems like this is the one. I'm still weighing my options, but will choose the path very soon. Thanks

 

If I were to buy right now, I'd have to with a Packard kit or this API kit

 

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This is definitely a turbo kit to keep an eye on. Seems to use quality parts and the fact they are using a AEM Infinity 8 standalone controller vs those piggy backs is a huge plus. One reason I haven't bought a turbo for my xp1000 is I ride from 0-8000 feet and hate pressing buttons, staring at lights, afr and boost gauges when you change elevation.

If this compensates enough could give others a run for their money.

 

Should have it done this week and at Dumont this weekend. if anyone is gonna blow it up, it will be me. Very few ride harder. Keeping fingers crossed I get a few reliable seasons out of this motor. Will keep you posted.

 

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I wonder if those with other kits would be able to use their standalone ECU for better performance?

 

Good question! I remember reading the ViPec system from Queen Racing was a viable option, although I think it was $2k+ for the system. Would be curious to know how much API would charge for their standalone..

 

I've got 2 of their turbos with the ability to go from 11 lbs. to over 20 lbs. with a turn of the switch. 1 is on my wife's dune machine (18 lbs) and the other is on her trail and rock crawler that also sees some dune riding (11 lbs. for the trails and 16 in the dunes). The dune machine has their new clutch and it works great. The controller is set to adjust from Glamis to St. Antony with no adjustments required from us. No problems and the Borg Warner Turbo spools really quick. Pump gas at 11 lbs. and 110 for all the other setting's. So far they've worked well.

 

Dang, that thing will run 11psi on pump gas? Any internals needed?

 

Good to hear. Im a bit worried about the motor holding together in Dumont. Is what it is I guess. Plan on doing a full rebuild next season in any case but would rather do it when I choose rather than blowing the motor up on a holiday weekend.

 

Is there a price floating around yet

 

$2500 to modify a different turbo system to their standalone unit.

 

I would be cautious for anyone going down this road with API as I had a bad experience with this company -- Going down this very path.

FWIW .... :rm_thumbdown:

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Sparky, its not an isolated incident. Ive had the same experience as you with API.

 

Were both incidents related to just using their controller? If that's the case I can understand them not wanting to mess with it. Takes time to build those maps for different elevations and different kits produce different values and then if you were to have an issue on fueling it would be directed back to API.

If not what was your incident?

 

If this was the case, then why would they offer the ecm by itself for sale?

 

If you read about the infinity system it helps build a map quickly with 02 feedback. Its extremely smart compared to the pcv. So fuel mapping is no excuse for shrugging off customers who want to purchase the stand alone. Timing map maybe. Maybe theres no profit in selling the stand alone and therefore no interest. That was the impression i got, no interest in having a transaction at all. Too bad ALBA isnt selling this system, that would be a different story.

 

They only way they could build a map is with it on the car. And based on yours being a custom kit running e85, if your still on meth injection all changes the parameters. I'm sure the AEM infinity will build a map quickly but you need to have somewhat of a base to start and honestly if I were selling turbo kits with a standalone system with maps I built I wouldn't be selling it to competitor kits. Thats why I think API only sells it in their kit or on a stock machine because they already have the maps built.

This same issue is huge in the snowmobile market where turbo sleds are almost the norm now. Few companies make standalone kits, most use the dobeck, and those that make standalones hate messing with other companies kits because issues always arise. And it usually isn't profitable because if the map isn't spot on then they will receive a bunch of calls on whats going wrong which means sending map files back and forth, to pinpoint it.

IMO buying a complete turbo kit from a company also gives you the support of that company when issues arise and they build that support into their price for the kit.

The AEM infinity is available to anyone just like a PCV. But I bet you won't find many turbo companies selling you their pre-programmed PCV or even dobeck if you are running a different kit because it just equals headaches for them.

I guess I just wouldn't dog a company for not selling me a fuel controller for a homebuilt turbo when they produce a complete kit with a controller designed for that kit.