Fitting A Gt2876R To Rb25

[phil33]

G'day guys,

I'm after some info on the 2876r. yes i know it is a shit turbo, its not good for anything and all the rest.

but i have it and its sitting in the shed (yes most ppl well say leave it there). it has the t25 housing on it and seeing if it is possible to fit a standard skyline R33 turbo housing on to it?? as i wanted to bolt it up to my 33. reason i wanted to use the standard housing is because i have a CES dump/front pipe i wanted to keep.

Cheers Phil.

[scotty nm35]

Best to speak to Stao (hypergear), he can machine you up a housing to suit, and check out the core for you to see how serviceable it is.

[wolverine]

I don't get it.

A decent hiflow, you can still use your CES dump and no regrets later would be a smarter way to go.

[AngryRB]

my bro just upgraded to a SS2 hypergear and used to have a 2876 with 0.64 HKS rear, although most will say its a shit turbo, it went pretty hard from my experience, he ran it on 12psi and was

doing consistent flat 13sec quarters with a HKS hi power silent exhaust, id estimate 230kw, started pulling at 3500rpm and got a bit crazy 6000-7000rpm, not

great I know, but it was fun.

It went harder than my 2871 hiflow in stock housings, suprising but was surging like crazy and eventually started smoking which led to the upgrade to SS2, with an antisurge

comp housing I wondered wether it could of lasted longer but in comparison to a stock turbo I think it was a decent turbo but not ideal, just my observation.

Edited January 20, 2014 by AngryRB

[phil33]

Cheers for the replies but still don't help me. lol i know a hiflow or a 3071/76 would be better. but i don't have either of them. I'm not looking at spending much money on this thing as it is my daily. have the 2867 with the t25 housing as it was on my 180. and it was a lag monster didn't make full boost till 5200. lol my cams didn't help it either have 264's in it.

i didn't want to take my standard turbo off if the housing won't fit the 76 i believe it should as they are both t28.

cheers again.

[wolverine]

Surely by the time you send the the POS to be disassembled, machined, reassembled, shipped back, installed you might as well find the $800 for a hiflow that will urinate all over what you are proposing.

If you can't afford to buy a half way decent turbo then why bother? Keeping the stock turbo on there makes more sense.

[Joshbigt62r]

Well put ^^^ couldnt have worded it better myself Wolverine...