Update on Turbo.

shaunwil · November 03, 2011, 10:33:02 PM

As I seem to hardly show the changes with my car I wanted to show the progress on my turbo setup. I ran a GT3574 Journal turbo but killed the bearings on it earlier in the year.

After Plenty of thought and a ride in a GT4088 setup I decided to swap the setup for a GT3574r (track-day car) due to spool up and its an easier swap on my manifold and Downpipe.

New Turbo with ported shroud :

When the turbo came off the manifold was found to be cracked. Thanks to a nice chap in Stockport it got Tig welded back up. The whole lot got shipped off to get zircotec coated (performance white) and got back early this week. Looks amazing, hopefully it will stay as clean once on the car :

Looking at fitting over the weekend, shouldn\'t take too long. Then I need to get it booked in to get tuned.

Shaun

Casey · November 04, 2011, 12:40:18 AM

Hmmmm, looks very tasty Shaun :mmmm

lennycarloff · November 04, 2011, 01:13:43 AM

Someone\'s been busy haven\'t they, it will be good to see you back out on track
:3gears-lh

Grant Monkhouse · November 04, 2011, 06:53:17 AM

I had thought you had got a slightly larger turbo? Have you just got the ball bearing version then? Earlier spool up for sure with that bad boy, make sure you pre filter the oil delivered to the turbo and that you have the right size oil hole feed as, I\'m sure you all ready know, they don\'t need mass amounts of oil like a journal bearing turbo do. Too much oil and you will have a James bond style smoke screen. Sing pumped out I the exhaust.

Did you consider the GTX version of the 35R? Much high peak HP as I think they are a billet inducer rather than a forged/cast wheel, but I may be wrong.

fil_auto · November 04, 2011, 10:50:53 AM

That looks stunning

Most envious.

WANT!

Ed_RX7 · November 04, 2011, 11:57:08 AM

yep restrictor size is important on BB CHRA.

GTX are good but still quite pricey!!!

Grant Monkhouse · November 04, 2011, 12:08:43 PM

Yep which is why I went for the BW over a garrett. I can\'t justify the prices at all, and the GTX range is even more heavily priced then the R range!!

Saying that though looking at prices of the new EFr range from BW, they are stupidly priced too. Looking around Â£2,000 for the second largest one in the EFR series and only capable of 8,00hp. Mind you with words used for the bits inside them like gamma titanium makes them sound special!!!

Ed_RX7 · November 04, 2011, 12:17:38 PM

lol....yeh...lets see shall we as they say..proof is in the pudding.

grinder · November 04, 2011, 12:18:29 PM

looks very nice pal

can i book myself a ride again

Grant Monkhouse · November 04, 2011, 01:02:51 PM

Quote from: Ed_RX7;797419lol....yeh...lets see shall we as they say..proof is in the pudding.

We shall, I\'m not even sure if they have even released all the turbos yet, they\'re creating a lot of buzz about them and a lot of people want to run them on their rotaries but I haven\'t seen any results as of yet.

HaywardRotary · November 04, 2011, 01:15:53 PM

The restrictor is in the turbo housing already on these baby\'s.You do need to make sure you have a decent size drain from the turbo.

Ed_RX7 · November 04, 2011, 01:16:43 PM

exactly! Makes me wonder why its taking so long......personally i would need to see and increase of 70-100rwhp difference to warrant spending that sort of mony on one of those. As lets face it BW are truck/tractor jobs in essence...but relatively good value for the power you can get from them.

Hence the reason why People like Shaun and myself prefer to pay for turbo\'s from ( lets say) seasoned manufacturers like MItsubishi and Garrett to name a few.

But to be fair BW are now starting to produce turbos for the vehicle market as opposed to the commercial market.....So if they can hone in the pricing and the snails produce what they are claiming then they will undoubtedly begin to increase their market share.

Ed_RX7 · November 04, 2011, 01:17:53 PM

Housing?....dont you mean the CHRA ?

HaywardRotary · November 04, 2011, 01:19:39 PM

Quote from: Ed_RX7;797434Housing?....dont you mean the CHRA ?

Yes it is in the "CHRA"

Grant Monkhouse · November 04, 2011, 01:34:25 PM

Quote from: Ed_RX7;797433exactly! Makes me wonder why its taking so long......personally i would need to see and increase of 70-100rwhp difference to warrant spending that sort of mony on one of those. As lets face it BW are truck/tractor jobs in essence...but relatively good value for the power you can get from them.
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Dont James and Rob both use BW turbos?? Surely your calling their cars tractors, hehehehehe.

Have you seen the modified BW turbos that Bullseye power do??? they are some serious shizzle!!!!