Gussie Cup

Having some PE equal length headers fitted and at the same time have decided to fit a different turbo.

As I've read that its better to choose the turbo and headers that work best together, what recommendations are there for a turbo with this manifold?

I'm sure many of you have tried different combos so I wondered what you'd found.

At the moment Turbo Technics have recommended an M191/2 (I think thats right??!) but before taking the plunge, hearing of others experiences would be a good idea.

The car is a MY95 WRX
Cheers

Ben

Tone Loc

iTrader: (1)

Is that turbo a 90degree inlet or have you converted your car to front entry for the turbo.... i.e raised the existing inlet or fitted the later style?

Tony.

Gussie Cup

Tony - at present the turbo side of things is totally standard. I haven't modified anything.

Ben

Tone Loc

iTrader: (1)

Are you going to modify it then or is this turbo compatable (i.e it as the 90 degree inlet)? Just asking 'cos i've never heard of a turbo off the shelf that we could swap out TD05s for?

Tony.

Gussie Cup

Thats the reason for posting really. I dont know exactly what will be involved.

If theres no off the shelf replacement, does it become a huge job or is it relatively easy to sort? I need to make clear that I wont be attempting this myself.....

Ben

Adam M

I would have a word with mark@lateralperformance.co.uk


Think you woul benefit more from a front entry TD05 which I think he might do, and get yourself either a new style manifold, or raise the existing enough to get your intake pipe under there.

Will cost you a lot less, and the improvement from a straight entry is apparently well worth having.

Tone Loc

iTrader: (1)

I'd echo what Adam said.... speak to Mark. You'll be pleasantly surprised how little the actual mod to the turbo costs. The hard bit comes when you've got to fit it...... spacers to raise the manifold, later style power steering pump, turbo inlet pipe, fuel rail mods (parallel feed) and probably soem other bits i've forgotten. It'll still work out a hell of a lot cheaper than a new turbo tho...... and the TD05 is pretty good anyway.

Tony.

dowser

I have front entry, ported & polished td-05 and PE manifold on a my00 - a good combo IMO. I get 1 bar in 4th at 3k1. It feels stronger at higher revs than the vf23 that preceded it.

But.....I'd be cautious unless you intend to remap around the manifold? You'll likely see your spool point higher than it needs be without it.

Richard