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

inkjunkie said
This is something that I have been wondering about ever since Mad Dart started his build. How much are you leaving on the table by using an Ebay Turbo? Sure you will sped more on the turbo itself, but the fab work $$ will be the same.

I hear what you are saying but for most applications which are more for recreational street and occasional track use they should do ok. I am hoping that mine will be very streetable with a 2.76 gear and I hope to drive it all over the place. I believe the combination should still run in the Low 9's, High 8's. If they spool later I will smack it with a 100-150 shot of NOS and boost control it with the EBC through the 1-2 shift and have the NOS Timed to shut off sometime before that. We soon shall see.

My first turbo was a knock-off T70 and it left me stranded on the starting line. Broke the air side nut off and destroyed the fins. Nothing went into the motor luckily. After figuring up the fuel, time and wasted trip to the track and then starting over new with a better turbo it would have been cheaper to just get a good Garret that I have now. The good turbo was good for 4 tenths in the 1/4 mile without doing anything but a turbo swap. Sent the knock-off to my turbo guy and he said there was 3 different manufactures inside the turbo and wasn't worth the $$$ to rebuild because of the machine work involved. My experience was a bad one because of the $$$ invested into the cheap turbo and not put towards a good one right away. I don't like to do things over. Congrats to all who can get the cheapies to work.
Later
Ryan

Well Ryan, you are the first I heard of an end user where a knock off came apart. I still have not found anywhere where these gt45 ebay knock offs have done the same from an end user. I will soon find out what this combination can produce on the Dyno. It will be Chassis Dyno'd once it is installed in the car also.

On the Diesel forums there are guys totally abusing the Knock off GT45 pushing well over 50PSI and over 50K miles on them with no issues at all. Maybe they are just lucky.

There is a rebuild kit for the ebay GT45 Knock off.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...arms=clkid=2570478166636749041#ht_3607wt_1136