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Hey everyone i know im gonna get drilled but please leave the negative comments

my mate has a rb25det in his s13 and was thinking of putting one of these turbos on for a couple of months just to see as they have been selling like hot cakes just wanted to see if anyone off sau has tried one and how they compare to the stock turbo

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/150572177522?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

i know they are cheap he just wants to put something on until his 3076 comes and if it would be any better then the stock turbo as it seems to have no modding required to fit

his running pretty much the same bolts on as mine ie 555cc injectors nistune ecu 040 pump front mount cooler n so on he doesnt want 300rwkw yet just wants to see what it would be like

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Where is the 3076 and why cant he just wait for the real thing? Sounds like double handling?

Also, cheap turbo's are likely to only be on for a couple of months.... Not meaning to be negative but you generally get what you pay for....

his waiting for it from garrett usa as he got it cheaper then he has to wait a few weeks to get his manifold modified and then a external wastegate

im trying to see if anyone on here has one

i has a ebay t3/t4 external gate version on my first rb25 made 250rwkw and lasted close to 2 years

There are cheap ways to do things, there are wrong ways to do things, and there are expensive ways to do things.

This looks like the wrong way, done cheaply, then going to be end up being very expensive.

Don't buy anything. Seriously just wait for all your parts to come together. My car was stock standard when I got it. Took me about 7 months to get every part I needed and now I enjoy every bit of it.

Tunes are not interchangeable between cars.

I had a tune for a stock as a rock R33 GTST(Power FC, wasn't base tune, proper dyno tune). I fit that Power FC on my car, and it was amazingly f**king shit. It didn't ping or anything but the lack of power was amazing. That 280rwkw tune, I think, will be very rich for the flow of the turbo that you listed. You won't see much performance. Maybe the tune was for a larger turbo too and this smaller turbo you listed will spool quicker and pop the motor due to a lean out.

Do it properly.

yeah its not my car its my mates

his stock turbo with that ecu tuned for a different turbo he put it on the dyno and made 210rwkw on 10psi everything was safe wasnt lean it was tuned for the same motor just with a 3071

dont worry ill let him know to wait for the 3076 maybe just use his current setup and turn the boost to 12-14psi

i had a nistune ecu with a base tune wasnt even tuned for my car the tuner interstate did a lil tune i put it in made 230rwkw on 13psi and everything was safe

when you use the word 'safe' I dont think you mean 'safe' the same why most would around here...

the tuner setup up the ecu without having the car? interesting a mail order tune, that sounds pretty 'safe' for sure???

what makes you think it was a safe tune? I hope everthing else was working as the tuner assumed

his old tuner got matt from nistune to put on a slightly advanced base tune with bit more fuel and no limiters SAFE as in AFRs wasnt lean its as safe as it would be getting it tuned to 13PSI from a tuner

and the WHOLE setup isnt different its just goin from a gt3071 turbo to something around the same HP rating so im not to sure how it would be UNSAFE and blow something on 13-14psi if most guys turn there boost to that on a UNTUNED ecu

ITS NOT MINE ITS MY FRIENDS just wanted to see if anyone has had experience with this turbo as not many ebay ones have been a true bolt on

and once the turbo is fitted it will go back to the tuner to make sure everything is ok

Look at it like this. That turbo, plus tuner and dyno work plus any little bits to get the turbo to fit will cost in excess of 800, dare I even say 1k. Tuning is quite theoretical IMO, but that is going by static figures. Each and every car is different...

http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4pauejlvh&reload=3#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dpzbn0yR2A-w%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player&feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=pzbn0yR2A-w&gl=AU

Sorry doesn't add much to the thread but I couldn't resist.

ITS NOT MINE ITS MY FRIENDS just wanted to see if anyone has had experience with this turbo as not many ebay ones have been a true bolt on

and once the turbo is fitted it will go back to the tuner to make sure everything is ok

Edited by JustinP

Look at it like this. That turbo, plus tuner and dyno work plus any little bits to get the turbo to fit will cost in excess of 800, dare I even say 1k. Tuning is quite theoretical IMO, but that is going by static figures. Each and every car is different...

SARGE its my mates car not mine so let him burn his money

oh and the turbo is a direct bolt on to stock manifold lines and dump

and a retune is only 350 which i doubt it will need as its not running alot of boost and already has a tune for a 3071 on there

i really am tryin to find people who have used these i know myself i wouldnt do it like at the start of the thread what i wrote im just looking to see what people have done

I asked a simular question when i 1st came on this site about the cheaper turbos and soon got drilled about it. Obviously by putting one of these turbos on he would be running his engine at risk. However ive also watched a lot of vids of youtube with the yanks and there ebay turbo engine builds (mainly on honda civics). some last a year or so and some dont. Mafia also said to me that most of these turbo only last one or to runs on the dyno then they blow oil seals.

If ur mate does decide to go ahead with this turbo then atleast msg other ebay users who have bought it and ask them what its like, preferably the buyers who bought it a while ago so they can tell u if the turbo is still running ok or shat itself

Edited by chris_82

his waiting for it from garrett usa as he got it cheaper then he has to wait a few weeks to get his manifold modified and then a external wastegate

Yet he's considering spending what will likely end up being ~$700 on a temp turbo?

WTF?

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Cutting spending on education clearly isn't working. Then again, someone has to fit my tyres....

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