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Both turbos with a remap and a few supporting mods should see you way past 300 bhp,but the td05 is the stronger of the 2 turbos, being a sleeve bearing opposed to the vf23 roller bearing. It is also getting harder to find a good vf23 nowadays as they are11+ years old,whereas a td05 can be bought new from the likes of andy forrest etc.