Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

Time to put my car back together again
Before I go and spunk 4 figures on an sc38 anybody
got anything suitable for a 2 litre?

boosted

Get yourself on eBay and buy a brand new 05 20g for £180 delivered.

domino46

Got a forced performance red in the for sale section

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

It's £180 for a reason!

So buy a £180 turbo and it fails and bye bye fully forged short engine nah your alright.

There's a good reason the same turbo is £1000 at scoobyclinic

ATWRX

iTrader: (10)

What sort of person gives advice like this?

essbon

I have a SC38 for sale, just been taken off my car, and is in perfect working order
3 years old and has covered around 12K miles

*matthewturb2000*

iTrader: (11)

Got a 'tbo' td06 20g American turbo not Chinese

Tidgy

yhpm

bustaMOVEs

iTrader: (31)

Pay £1k and get a T36. 380-450hp turbo with excellent spool. (I'm getting one)

boosted

Not had one fail yet, been using them in various applications for tens of thousands of miles.
You pay for scene points for sure.
I'm not sure exactly what it's going to do to your engine if it did fail? Seen plenty expensive brand named turbos fail on far more expensive engines and not cause any damage at all.
Replaced a borg warner last week on a £6000 Volvo Penta, exploded compressor wheel due to choked air filter/over speed.
Engines fine

boosted

Made in china all the same

boosted

Someone that has had great success and experience with Chinese turbos on many cars with thousands of miles.
Someone that isn't afraid to try something

Dubzy

iTrader: (4)

Exactly what he said...£180 for a brand new complete turbo wouldnt risk playing rusian roulette with my engine. A £500 banger maybe, not a built subaru engine thats for sure..

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

You've never seen a turbo fail and cause any sort of issue to the engine?
I have and more than once.
So shaft bearing fails and the debris ends up through the oil system and causes a bearing to pick up and fail?

When you build an engine out of new expensive parts (not second hand) and have thousands of £££ invested in a car there is no point in scrimping on 1 of the most important parts.
You telling me that you truly believe the level of engineering and quality of materials in a £180 Chinese turbo is the same as a Borg Warner or garret?

Agreed you pay more for the name.

Find me a thread complaining about a Garret or Borg Warner causing issues?
There are plenty about Chinese built turbos

You will find if an expensive turbo fails there will be a good reason behind it rather than it being a fault with the turbo.

Dubzy

iTrader: (4)

Theres a freshly rebuilt md321s for sale on here at the moment, seems a good deal too.

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

How much and is it billet?
Why did you remove?

boosted

Scoobynets brilliant 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

*matthewturb2000*

iTrader: (11)

Boosted does know his stuff Il give him that

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

I know imagine fitting what's been tested and proved to work.

To be fair good luck to those willing to try out new things and experiment as well

boosted

If I thought it was a risk I wouldn't risk spending the little spare cash I have on one to use on my daily driver, need the car reliable to pick up my kids.
I've used two Chinese t34's, over 12,000 miles on one, two t28's, two 20g's and a Chinese diesel turbo (20,000+ miles) and the laugh of it is the diesel turbo is working the hardest, spinning the fastest and also on an engine that had oil supply issues until the pick up screen was cleaned out, and it's still going strong!
Who here has actual real experience of a Chinese turbo failure?

boosted

Good job everyone doesn't procrastinate

boosted

Why did you break the P1?

essbon

£700
Yes its a billet turbo
Removed for a bigger turbo

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

I wasn't trying to break it.
2 bar of boost and a bad gear change equaled a broken very expensive gearbox.
This sickened me after the money spent so i sold of the engine and turbo set up to go back to a more sensible power level.

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

All sorted now folks.
Going for something slightly unconventional see how we get on

JDM_Stig

iTrader: (3)

Cant fault you for trying something different, its better to lead then follow like a sheep.

boosted

Amen lol

boosted

I see, I had it in my head you were breaking it for a deposit for a house or something, what gearbox you got now?

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

Not me min was just sick of it all after the box broke and realised I really couldn't use 500bhp+ on the road.
Back to the standard box

boosted

I remember the conversation of 500 hp on the road.
Must of been someone else I'm thinking of, was talking about double garage's and how I wouldn't be without mine... Another subject lol.
What turbo did you go for?