$450 chinese turbo and 600 plus HP(food 4 thought)

tooslow said

I read an interesting article in one of my magazines were they built a 600 plus HP stock 350 with an ebay $450 chinese turbo.They got the motor from the bone yard with 160K on it. I think they were getting 5000 to 10000 miles out of the bearings.in the turbo(bearings being the weak link)
I could post the article if anybodies interested?
I wonder why they didn't upgrade the bearings? The article said other than the bearings not being the best the units were pretty substantial

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If your Drain for the Turbo is not up to par you could damage the turbo and have early failure. The turbo's I am using are bought off ebay. Everyone was saying they would never last. I did a bunch of research and all the people that said they would not last were never the end users. Matter of fact I could not find a single end user that had a failure with them. Kind of weird....

Here is a BB 468 CI Chevrolet that has been running for 5 seasons now without any problems at all. Runs 8.8 in the 1/4 at 158MPH also.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6VdAHJFh3Y"]Mike's 1967 Ebay Twin Turbo Powered BBC - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwI7gJRTNw&feature=player_embedded"]47 Street car Shoot-Out Edm - YouTube[/ame]

Single Ebay GT45 Turbo with a 75 Shot of Dry NOS. with a Junk Yard 5.3 Liter, Runs a 6. something at 109MPH in the 1/8.....
I talked to this guy and he said that Failure with any turbo is usually linked to drainage.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTV8QTIVYB0&feature=player_embedded"]michasmovie.wmv - YouTube[/ame]