Chinese turbo's. Who's kit uses them?
- Thread starter CANDYMAN
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are you sure they didnt just piece together their own kit? i cant imagine one of the builders using that junk
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CANDYMAN
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This is a mass produced kit. Everyone fo have a look at the exhaust housing on their turbo and see if they can see Garrett stamped anywhere on it. The other sign is that a Garrett has a metal tag riveted to the centre section.
The guy started the sled and it wouldn't even spin the turbo at idle.
He was busy changing the extra injector plugs that had rubbed through the harness and were grounding out on the frame too.
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theshadowrider
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Not saying this was the kit that you saw but I always thought that silbers uses parts from the chinese turbo to piece together his hybrid turbo that he sells.
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TurboMatt
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I don't know for sure if silber uses a chinese turbo or not, but if he does man do these things have good throttle response and rip hard! Maybe a chinese turbo isn't so bad if they last. For a sled, longitivity may not be any issue since they don't get as much use as a vehicle.
Silber told me he uses a chinese housing, but he replaces ALL the internals with his own. So buy a Garret at twice the price, and swap out the internals? or buy a cheaper housing and swap out the internals and pass the savings on to your customers? I know which i would want him to do.
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Going West
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And who exactly is going to know if he didnt change the insides. If he was changing the center section out it should have the Garret tag on it.
Garrett has a different bolt pattern than any and ALL chinese housings..period. dot.
is this just on the pros? im pretty sure my iq kit has a garret.. now im gonna have to run and look when i get a chance
I'm not sure if it is a Chinese or not and I'm not at home to look, but I know it spools pretty darn quick and is a tough turbo. I ate a ring and had the turbo looked at. The turbo was fine and you could hardly see the scrapes in the wheel from when the ring went through. If it lasts, has a good build quality, and performes as expected I'd rather not have to pay as much for it.
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Arcteryx
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???? Did I miss something here. I didn't see anything that sounded like bashing to me. Sounds like people are just trying to figure out if Silber's turbo's are part or all Chinese. I think that information is important. We all know Silber's kits cost less. Knowing some of the reasons that it costs less help people make informed decisions.
The crazy thing to me is that a large part of the Silber crowd bashes the crap out of BD for anything and everything but if someone comes on here asking if Silber uses Chinese turbos or housings they claim hurt feelings and bashing. WTH, huge double standard IMO!!
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CANDYMAN
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If you mean me then I'm not sure what the bashing part was. The guy that owned the sled was under the impression that he had a Garrett turbo. I'm not sure how he came to that conclusion. He bought it from a dealer so maybe that is how.
He really wasn't impressed that one of the injector plugs had worn right through by rubbing on the bulkhead. He also wasn't a big fan of the blow off valve that was partially stuck open and the boost controller that didn't seem to work. Not to mention the 5 dollar boost gauge.
It was more a question as to wether or not people were aware of what they were buying.
It make no difference to me except that I have been looking at used Pro's with turbo kits and wanted to see what the deal was. This was the first time I had a chance to look over one of these kits.
I ride in Revy a lot and see plenty of Pro's with turbo kits and many of them don't run well enough to get out of there own way. So is it the kit, install, fuel control, or what?
) I agree its just stupid.
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Going West
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I ride with a couple of BD turbo Pros and the run real well.
silber is now using china turbos? little disheartening to hear. i swear mine is a garrett though so it must be the new kits only. but im definitely going to be looking closely at it next time i get a chance
