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It looks like a plain bearing centre, which would be early VG30DET, but could be mistaken and would need a picture showing the opposite face to that in the first photo to confirm.

Edit: plain bearing turbo's were also used on HR31 Skyline's and Cefiro's, not to mention Z31 turbo, VLT, 280ZXT and other's i've probably forgotten...........

Edited by SteveL
That's a plain bearing centre - definately not RB25DET.

Oh, Ohhh thats no good!!! how can you tell?

what do i look for to identify the difference between plain and BB centre

Cheers :)

what do i look for to identify the difference between plain and BB centre

Ball-bearing turbo's have a 6mm bolt (10mm hex head) near the water fitting (ie in the same plane as the water fitting). The centre is also physically larger, but it can be hard to tell from photo's. The absence of the bolt confirms it.

Yup, well, I bought a 'Neo' R34 turbo from a fella on these forums, it turned out it wasnt and is a S2 RB25 turbo (exactly what Ive already got). Paid $650 for the damn thing, asked for some money back, no responce.

Maybe we should name names?

yeah pretty dissapointed, i have PM'd the guy who sold it to me, I will give him a chance to make right.

EDIT he has done the right thing :) EDIT

Edited by CEF11E

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