I think my ct26 is leaking oil, causing my car to smoke at higher rpm. I was checking ebay looking for potenial turbos. I found this, and want to get your input on it.
Plan on having to spend twice that amount on fabricating the pieces to actually fit.You get what you pay for,and they even say you will need to modify your car, and buy additional pieces to make it work.It is not bolt on.Besides the fact that you would have a hard time selling it with those parts on it unless its to someone that knows nothing about cars.You might as well have EBAY across your front windshield!!You can get a good Turbo for that price if you shop around.The only thing usable in that kit I see is the intercooler,and the only reason I say that is when I put my Greddy SMIC on, there was a guy with a knock off SMIC there and they flowed at the same amount, welds looked identical, could not tell the two apart.Luckily my friend owns the shop and he happened to have a Greddy SMIC sitting on a shelf for years and he gave it to me, otherwise I would have been pissed!!! I have been told by two people that Greddy,HKS and others contract the same US builder for there IC's and the same builder sells the same IC 's under a no name brands to mass market.Either way, I would pass on the kit, I would not trust it...Best of luck
It's a ching-chong kit.
That means the intercooler will be brazed together, and if it doesn't leak; chances are that the core will eventually fail & leak anyways.
The turbo has a 70% chance of not having the correct bearings in it/having old bearings.
Meaning it will need an immediate rebuild.
It will have low quality bearings that will not properly fit the clearance.
The seals have a 50% chance of leaking oil at the correct amount of oil supply. (Restricted 3AN feed.)
The BOV spring will not be strong enough. This means you will have to crush down the BOV to get it to seal.
The manifold has an 80% chance of cracking in the first 6 months.
The silicon couplers will probably pull themselves so much they split on the T-bar hose clamps.
And last, but not least. The gasket is chinrean. It probably wont seal either. =)
Atleast the wastegate, will more than likekly work!
And it's all true. Tho sometimes you get a chinariea turbo that actually works for 6-12-24 months. woohoo! lol!
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Thanks guys, I got a ct20b turbo on the way.....Hopefully, as i heard who i got it from some mr2naturbo or some cutter guy. I didnt know this and would not have gotten one from him,
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Tangerine, I have been looking for 1760 POS TURD Si, let me know if you come across one!!!
The POS Turd Si are very rare because it was a limited edition. Only 2 were made. You can check eBay, although I've seen only the DX and the XB. Make a WTB thread, I'm sure someone on this site would have info on them.
I personally would love to try one of those kits out. why not right? I actually talked to a guy in the UK that has the XSpower kit on his car with no problems. He made 298whp with supporting mods on baseline. I forget his username on the UK board but his name is Ryan. Although he did say that the manifold is crap, he welded some braces onto it and it's been holding up fine. I also asked him at the time how many miles he put on the kit. He said like "4K miles" and more going. Not the usual things you hear like 100 miles it blew up.
My suggestion would be... if you did get the kit, have it checked out by a turbo specialist for them to look it over. I recall somebody saying that all these turbos are the old garret style turbos.
I did quite a search on these kits... here's a thread i started on www.mr2board.com... I think you should read this
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