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One of my mates in sydney has sourced this turbo setup for me, what looks to be a T06 to fit an RB25, manifold, wastegate, and other lil bits n pieces. All up he wants $1200 for it, but he dosen't know if it works or not, I need to let him know by the end of the day if I want it or not. So basically my question is this... if I pay this amount n it turns out to be a dud, what can I do with it, and would I still be able to break even or lose less than $200 on it? I'm not really looking for a profit if I resell it if its not what I need, so what do you guys think? should I buy it?

He mentioned something about a 9mm something or other and it will bolt onto an RB25 and there's a small dent under the front pipe? comes with the AFM as well...

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ahhh decisions decisions... quick, someone tell me what to do. How much is a broken TD06 worth anyways?

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Actually, having a closer look at the 2nd set of photos looks as though they have welded a T3 or T4 flange to the exhasut housing of what may be a TD06 series turbo (it kinda looks triangular instead of square) so that it can be bolted to the manifold, which does appear to be a twin scroll,

Considering this would mean quite a mismatch of the inner diameters/faces id suggest there is a reason why its so cheap, but still if the manifold doesnt have any cracks and the wastegate is in ok condition then they are worth the money, i dont think the turbo will ever work well with that manifold, so could sell the turbo with correct exhasut housing to recover some costs

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yeah it appears as if they've used a manifold for an HKS turbo with a trust turbo, which is wierd. Its a triangular to squar mateing job. apparently the inners of both are the same diameter... so :

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Its not a TD06-25g compressot housing, they have Greddy cast into them like DJ Lethals TD06-25g... its more then likely a TD06-20g like mine, althought the compressor looks different so may be an older TD06-20g turbo, does it have a tag on the comrpessor cover, if so what colour is it blue and silver or black and silver

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