Help identify Thunderbird turbo
 

I pulled a turbo out of a ford thunderbird turbo coupe and i'm going to try to put it into my gsr Does anyone know if i should just scrap the turbo and find another one or put it on. I'm gonna rebuild it but if it won't help me then i probably won't use it

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could be a .48 .60 or if your lucky a .60 .63 both of which are T3's.
what year was the coupe? auto or manual?

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isnt that turbo kinda small for 1.8 liter engine? ???

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what about for a b16

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for a b16 you need it to be the .63 turbine one. .48 turbine is good for D series and B18A,B

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What year is it?
if it is 87 or 88, it is an IHI
Is it manual or automatic?
The manual trans cars before 87 had the .63/.60s the autos had .48s
Erich

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Too small for your engine if it's an IHI turbo.

Either of the T3s will work, hope it's out of a manual though.

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i would have to disagree, the ihi is a t3, they're all t3's, and the 48/52 that comes off the auto are small but i ran one on my cousins crx on 10psi and a fmu with 3 inch d.p. and just 0*ignition timing and we pulled pretty hard on a modded ls1 6 speed camaro, the guy said he ran a 12.6 and we prolly put a car length on him from a 40 roll, if your going for 300+ whp this isnt the turbo for you, but if you have a 88 crx hf and a 280 whp b16, thats a pretty quick car, i would say 14psi on a gsr would be a good starter/begineer turbo

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The A/R is .60 on the cold side but i have no idea on the hot side. So is this turbo usable on my integra gsr

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oh really.

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Wrong.

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well if it says .60 on the charge side. the its the garrett. and both garrets will work fine @10 psi on a gsr :y

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lol, that was a quick change to your IHI statement.

It's usable yes. To find out the exhaust A/R look in the inlet to the exhaust housing.

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How would i go about rebuilding it. As in finding the stuff to rebuild it.

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im not sure if its spec'd at a t3 but i bolted one right on a t3 flange ! thought that made it a t3 ??

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T3 flange != T3 turbo

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not at all.

The IHI 51t21 from the thunderbird has a t3 flange. it's far from a T3... It shares the same turbine wheel as the probe/323 ihi RHB5

The skyline gtr had a T25 with a t3 flange.

garrett, Borgwarner, holset, schwitzer are all producing many T3 flanged turbos and none of them are T3's. THey actually are T4 and even larger.

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i didnt make a ihi statment. are you drunk again ???