Turbo Rebuild Help!

[wilderboy]

i ws just on the hypergear website and they start rebuilds at around 400 and thats all bearing and gaskets and thats if they dont need to replace any broken parts

is that a good price or does someone do it better then 400

[GTSBoy]

Actually, that's a good enough price for a rebuild. I thought that people still wanted ~$600 for that sort of thing.

[wilderboy]

yea thats what i thought and i can find a few bolt on ones off ebay for 400 but i really dont know the item and im unsure of the quality and reliability of it and how much to you think a hypergear fi-flow turbo would cost because im very keen to upgread and i wouldnt mind a nice 250kw or more but its my day to day car and not have the money to upgrade the injectors ecu afm and turbo at this point but if its almost the same price to hi-flow it i may aswell do that

also can i run a hiflowed turbo with stock injectors ecu and fuel put and afm and just run stock boost??

[wilderboy]

because if i can hi flow my turbo and run around for a little bit as is when i get the money i can upgrade bit by bit or will i have to do it all at once

[lilcrash]

From memory he does a hiflow to suit stock everything except ecu, nistunes are pretty cheap, iirc it's like $900-$1000 with the braided oil line. Suits up to 230kw.

[lilcrash]

Or for a little bit more you can get an atr43 to suit 250kw or 300 depending on your goals. I've got my atr43 ss1 running 7psi so there isn't much reason you can't modify slowly, just be very careful about what you do in what order, I cracked a piston by taking too long to get it all tuned. But I did make 230kw with a cracked piston.

[wilderboy]

wow thats cool

[Manuel Kasko]

Im still pretty new on this site, let me answer this one lol

Option 1 - upgraded turbo = Tune, do u have a aftermarket ecu, if not ur up for about $5000+ (new turbo, ecu and tune)

How'd i do ?

You failed miserably unfortunately..

No way a new turbo, ecu + tune would cost this much.

Maybe if you went top of the line everything which he doesn't want to do.

Turbo = $900-1000

ECU = $600 - $1600

Tune = $500 - $800

Total = $3400 for something like

Power FC, 250-270kw hypergear turbo, tune

Total = $2000 for something like

Nistune ECU, Hypergear turbo 230kw + tune = 220kw max with stock injectors

Edited January 17, 2012 by Kasko

[chris_82]

You failed miserably unfortunately..

No way a new turbo, ecu + tune would cost this much.

Maybe if you went top of the line everything which he doesn't want to do.

Turbo = $900-1000

ECU = $600 - $1600

Tune = $500 - $800

Total = $3400 for something like

Power FC, 250-270kw hypergear turbo, tune

Total = $2000 for something like

Nistune ECU, Hypergear turbo 230kw + tune = 220kw max with stock injectors

I dont see that i did, $1500 isnt much. If i was to be taking the next step, id be spending a lil more than $1000 on a new turbo

[wolverine]

The HG turbo needs to magic itself onto the car for it to only cost $800-1000.

Its the hidden extras, like intake pipes, exhaust mods, injectors, AFM's, oil/water lines, stud replacement etc that some turbos require that is a hidden cost to upgrading.

Buying the parts is the easy part.

[Bsa]

Everything costs money unless you bolt a stock one on. Plus good turbos can be had from 750 (kando) then your usual mods same as hypergear. Also is there oil in the dump all turbos have some shaft play no matter how new.

[Manuel Kasko]

He said he is looking for something as a daily!

Why would he spend more then $1000 on a turbo?

HG turbo is direct bolt back on..no need to change dump or anything

[wolverine]

Which HG turbo? A simple rebuild/hiflow yes other HG turbos no. Don't forget labour.

Getting back to the OP I am still not convinced his turbo has anything wrong with it since it still makes boost so the best thing is to correctly diagnose what is happening before buying any parts.

ps. my daily driver has had a whole lot more than $1k spent on turbos over the years...like most SAU'ers.

[lilcrash]

Which HG turbo? A simple rebuild/hiflow yes other HG turbos no. Don't forget labour.

Getting back to the OP I am still not convinced his turbo has anything wrong with it since it still makes boost so the best thing is to correctly diagnose what is happening before buying any parts.

ps. my daily driver has had a whole lot more than $1k spent on turbos over the years...like most SAU'ers.

^ my simple turbo replacement turned into a 10k rebuild pretty quickly lol.

[wilderboy]

quick question im looking at a really cheap r34 turbo with no nosie and no shaft play and lie $150 mates rates i was just wondering how much shit can it handle because im going to go the road of hiflowing my r33 turbo

[wilderboy]

Like how much psi will it handle I know they have the same wheel as the r33 so I'm guessing 14psi max

[GTSBoy]

14psi is not as sensible with RB25 turbos as it is for RB20 turbos. 12psi is more sensible on RB25 turbos. You can run 14 psi and it might go for ages. Or it might crap itself straight away. You never know.

[wilderboy]

Oh ok no worries thanks

[DVS JEZ]

Best to get the 34 OP6 turbo highflowed

[wilderboy]

Is that because there a little big bigger?