Tuning uprated turbos
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Tuning uprated turbos
Budget? do you want quick spool up or more lag but fantastic top end? there's plenty of choices but you need to ask yourself some questions first.
For that money, you can afford to re-con your existing turbo to something like a GTI-R spec, so a little less quick to spool up than standard, but will hold more than 1 bar at the redline 
and you can get about 300BHP with the right mods. You'd have to phone up a reputable turbo reconditioners and discuss it though.
Or you could just recon your current turbo with a 360 journal bearing, so it is a bit more durable. To buy a new hybrid is something like:
GTI-R £850
Superspool £900
..and they don't do exchange like they used to
and you can get about 300BHP with the right mods. You'd have to phone up a reputable turbo reconditioners and discuss it though. Or you could just recon your current turbo with a 360 journal bearing, so it is a bit more durable. To buy a new hybrid is something like:
GTI-R £850
Superspool £900
..and they don't do exchange like they used to
Yeah that's right. No, Fiat worked with Garrett for the coop's T28 (it's a T28B to be precise) to optimise early spool-up. The T3 would have been more laggy, as it is on the 16vt, making for more of a wait..wait..wait...BOOM type experience as opposed to the 20VT's more linear (albeit still savage) delivery.
No, it's completely different fitting. You'd have to get an adaptor at the very least, I'd have thought. I've never heard of a T3 on a 20VT.