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add my bit here, I have a cheap Chinese eBay 20g that was £125 band new with 1 year warranty.
Must be doing the business as my full weight newage (1500kg with driver) does consistent 12.3's with it, so circa 380hp.
I love all the tubro snobbery
add my bit here, I have a cheap Chinese eBay 20g that was £125 band new with 1 year warranty.
Must be doing the business as my full weight newage (1500kg with driver) does consistent 12.3's with it, so circa 380hp.
I love all the tubro snobbery
It's nothing to do with snobbery at all, its to do with best results of spool vs power.
add my bit here, I have a cheap Chinese eBay 20g that was £125 band new with 1 year warranty.
Must be doing the business as my full weight newage (1500kg with driver) does consistent 12.3's with it, so circa 380hp.
I love all the tubro snobbery
Can we see a graph for this cheapo turbo
or is it a guestimate ?
If it's doing those times who cares what brand it is
It's nothing to do with snobbery at all, its to do with best results of spool vs power.
Full boost 1.6 bar by 2800rpm, 1.5 bar held to 6500+
Originally Posted by SmurfyBhoy
Can we see a graph for this cheapo turbo
or is it a guestimate ?
If it's doing those times who cares what brand it is
It's does 12.3's, 379bhp is the power required to do those times with 1500kg. That's more accurate than a rolling road. Power isn't important, the speed of the car is what matters
Full boost 1.6 bar by 2800rpm, 1.5 bar held to 6500+
It's does 12.3's, 379bhp is the power required to do those times with 1500kg. That's more accurate than a rolling road. Power isn't important, the speed of the car is what matters
Maybe yours is (got a dyno graph for comparison, spool is typically later on a dyno). But every turbo performs differently on different cars not to mention you may have got one that is decent.
I shall explain, cheap knockoffs tend to have much larger tolerances, however that doesn't mean 1 in 1000 can't be a good match and tolerances be very tight, so it performs ok.
Maybe yours is (got a dyno graph for comparison, spool is typically later on a dyno). But every turbo performs differently on different cars not to mention you may have got one that is decent.
I shall explain, cheap knockoffs tend to have much larger tolerances, however that doesn't mean 1 in 1000 can't be a good match and tolerances be very tight, so it performs ok.
Tolerance of which part?
I have had four engines and Seven tubros on my Impreza in 3 years, this is the fastest.
I have owned and ran 8 cheap Chinese turbos over the years all with good results (from escorts, sierras, BMW, golf, two impreza's) also ran genuine garretts, holsets and mhi tubros.
Full boost 1.6 bar by 2800rpm, 1.5 bar held to 6500+
It's does 12.3's, 379bhp is the power required to do those times with 1500kg. That's more accurate than a rolling road. Power isn't important, the speed of the car is what matters
Are they really?! What about said descepencies with a RR? It's all relative and all educated guesswork.
However the weight and times don't lie....
in this case there's no benchmark times to compare the turbo's, hence the dyno benchmark, which while are slightly varying, decent dyno's typicly show results very similar.
Also were talking about spool here anyway so dyno would be the like for like.
in this case there's no benchmark times to compare the turbo's, hence the dyno benchmark, which while are slightly varying, decent dyno's typicly show results very similar.
Also were talking about spool here anyway so dyno would be the like for like.
Of course dyno spool is BS anyway... road is where it counts.
I had a genuine evo3 big 16g on my 2.0l before the 2.5, it spooled about 3800 and couldn't hold boost up the top...
20g was spooling at 2800 and dropping like a stone too until I discovered an inlet pipe restriction... now it holds boost all the way. Can only assume this was the problem with the previous setup too. My point being let's not be too quick to blame the tubro. Chinese or not.