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This is an awesome turbo setup at a very good price! I know when I bought my turbo, the RRP was near 4.5 - 5k from HKS Australia (BD4s)!!!

Don't forget it's a HKS unit not a Garret, which makes this turbo even better. Whoever buys this will not be disappointed, good luck with the sale!!!

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HKS Rate this turbo at 480 Hp @ 14psi. I have a different opinion but thats another story.

Yeah it should be sooner on a RB20 or 25

infact there is a guy on here that has posted graphs on his car

but he is using the smaller, internal wastegated HKS 2835 PRO.

Lots of area under the graph...

MattR, hope you have a good supply of gearboxes:)

I have one, fitted to RB25 with a 0.61 turbine housing 1bar at around 3000rpm, it was like a switch. I now have 0.87 housing and have 1.2bar at pretty close to 4200rpm. Great turbo for SR20 or RB25, maybe a tad big for RB20, but I suppose that depends on what you like.

ed, SR20 has more torque than RB25 - so you cant assume too much there:)

If anyone is after a turbo for an easy 300rwkw, with good response, this is your baby.

Will it be able to fit on a GTI-R or is there not enough room up front?? im looking at getting a GTI-R and have a turbs like this on if it will fit

I would think that it would fit.

It is 20 cm long and 18cm in diameter.

HKS seem to make turbo's physically smaller then others

but with a high power rating.

If you buy one of those cheap manifolds from Ebay and modify it with a wastegate

you should be OK.

What I would do in your case is buy one of these $400 manifolds, run a 2'' adaptor with GT25 flanges that go straight up. Then weld a wastegate pipe into it to suit. I think this would be neater then to mod the wastegate into the exsisting pipework.

Then it is just a matter of heat sheild, new dump pipe, etc.

The good thing about doing it this way is:-

1 You can high mount it and run a decent size exhaust dump pipe.

2 You don't have to be an expert to do this yourself.

3 selling it at a later date would mean that you can unbolt the whole kit.

4 No major modification cost.

I would not worry about the gearbox thing unless you plan to abuse it...

MattR, hope you have a good supply of gearboxes:)

I have one, fitted to RB25 with a 0.61 turbine housing 1bar at around 3000rpm, it was like a switch.  I now have 0.87 housing and have 1.2bar at pretty close to 4200rpm.  Great turbo for SR20 or RB25, maybe a tad big for RB20, but I suppose that depends on what you like.  

ed, SR20 has more torque than RB25 - so you cant assume too much there:)

If anyone is after a turbo for an easy 300rwkw, with good response, this is your baby.

Steve, one thing is that the RB motors may not have as much peak torque, but they sure have it a lot earlier then the SR20.

It is because of this they will come on boost earlier compared to teh SR20. Everything is a rapid succession after each other. Just like a well designed FMIC will bring on boost earlier due to the denser intake temp, providing better combustion, faster meaning more power earlier.

I think a lot of people fail to realise that and with this day and age of budget kits like the Hybrid IC kits, more and more people will not realise this.

What sort of Grunt are you making?

Yep, hybrid cooler (outlet sayed icy even on the dyno during tuning - so its not too bad)

I made 270 at 1.1 bar, 285 at 1.2bar but after that it started choking with a legal exhaust (enrico can tell you how quiet it was), peak was 309 at 1.7bar. I have since fitted a new exhaust, and now she pulls even harder - I love these turbos - absolutely killer.

EDIT: cant wait for a redyno, feels stonger than 309 now:)

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