You rekon Hondas cost a lot to go fast?!

I got a quote to turbo my E46 BMW...nothing fancy just a good quality everyday set-up and I was staring down at $35,000! OK so that included rebuilt engine and all, but it kinda puts the Jap scene into perspective.....

Even a stage 2 bolt-on supercharger kit blowing 12psi was going to cost $16,000 and that didn't include any engine work!

Your best bet is to get a kit from the US - they have so many to chose from that you are bound to find someting to meet your requirements, or if you really want turbo, get a S15 or something and paint that pink!

You mentioned the AVO kits being too expensive at $5600 plus fitting. What are you expecting to pay? For a basic custom turbo set-up from a shop you are probably looking at around the $8,000 mark anyways - and that's a pretty realistic price to do the job properly.

At the end of the day you can't have a cheap and reliable turbo set-up if you are getting a shop to do the work for you.

Maybe you need to work out your priorities a bit better. Do you want it all show, or all go? My first impression is that you would prefer a pink N/A teg to a turbo white teg based on the fact that you think $5,600 for a turbo won't leave enough money for the rest of your plans.

Just have a think about what you really want to do, write out a plan listing your priorities and work through them one at a time so you don't get caught up trying to do a million things at once and lose sight of what you really want to achieve.