wet floating vs ball bearing
- Thread starter chrisisme
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wet float is the common journal bearing turbos that you'll find on OEM turbo'd cars.
Ball bearing turbos spool faster.
Pretty much sums it up.
Ball bearing turbos spool faster.
Pretty much sums it up.
Basically, a conventional shaft style CHRA can be just as good performance wise as a GT/BB CHRA. Refering to stock OEM turbo's, they tend to be a bit more reliable than BB and aftermarket shaft CHRA turbo's. Kind of irrelevant if the aftermarket turbo comes with a warranty, plus you are going to get as much potential out of a usable OEM turbo (possibly more so with a Holset, but that is too much ghetto cheap Ebay rigging right there)..
GT/BB CHRA's are going to spool quicker and hit harder. You'd be suprised at some of the flow rates people are running on the street with them. Just an example:
The FP3065, basically a Garrett GT30R CHRA that flows 65lb/per min and is capable at achieving full boost under 4K rpms on a 2.0L DSM. People running stroked 2.3L 4G63's are acheiving that at around 3500rpms. I would be willing to bet that the little brother of that turbo, the 3052, would be one mean turbo on a built B-series motor.
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GT/BB CHRA's are going to spool quicker and hit harder. You'd be suprised at some of the flow rates people are running on the street with them. Just an example:
The FP3065, basically a Garrett GT30R CHRA that flows 65lb/per min and is capable at achieving full boost under 4K rpms on a 2.0L DSM. People running stroked 2.3L 4G63's are acheiving that at around 3500rpms. I would be willing to bet that the little brother of that turbo, the 3052, would be one mean turbo on a built B-series motor.
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