new to the turbo game
 

i was just wondering about brands...my buddy says stick with only garrett but people have told me AirResearch is the same thing??

bullseye, garret, or any turbo in good condition this is homemade turbo u know :p

what are your goals? what car? ect

haha ya i know..i was just wondering bout the brand Airesearch or whatever it is?? but ya i got a 95 intgra...b20,b16 head, fully built...i want atleast 350ish?? and everytime i ask people new ---- i get new answers..so now im on HMT!!

threads like this come up everyday...rape the search button

type garrett turbos in wikipedia and your answer is there

ya i did like a 100 times..and people put so much useless info onto the internet its hard to decifer, and half the ---- goes back to ebay haha

i have CDM T3/T04E turbos for $210 shipped. it will more than meet your goals and come with a 1 year warranty.

i have one on my own car with 1k miles so far. it made 310whp @15psi on a z6 with stock cam.

Depends on your setup but my buddies and I slapped a Holset diesel turbo on our Ford 2.3 Turbo motor in our XR4Ti, 30psi no sweat and even thought it's not 'rated' for gasoline EGTs, it's fine after quite a bit of abuse. 1 down side is that it's designed to never run vacuum so some oil pushes through the seal no matter what you do leading to some oil blowby in the turbo, but since it's not ball bearing no worries about it wearing out, and its much more forgiving in terms of tolerances, and they're cheap as dirt, specially now that the bottom has fallen back out of the diesel turbos, most of the HY35/HX35 series go barely-medium used for around $200.

One last thing, they aren't as well behaved as a street turbo as the their boost curve is scary when it comes on, ours pushes the last 15psi in just a few hundred rpm which makes it hairry, good thing it's a dedicated track car, just my .02

haha hairy huh...my car has on it now a ghetto ass setup i think..perfect for HMT...but i wanna do it right...it actually has a catterpiller diesel turbo i think?? it say CAT on it and nothing else?? but it spools crazy fast..idk the size or anything doesnt say anywhere on it...and me not having info on it drives me crazy

AirResearch turbos work just fine. But if you truly have a fully built motor with sleeves and the works, you might want to look into some of the nicer turbos whether ball bearing or not... I say look into the T3/T4 57 trim turbos.

x2. why put all that money in your motor and rock a lunkyard turbo? if your motor IS what you say it is, might as well opt for a decent turbo. t3/t4 57trim at least.