Back from tha DEAD.....

I just wanted to reply to this thread once more because there are still alot of people out there interested in 16g's.

I recently upgraded FROM the Turbochargers.com Evo III GT B16g, TO a
Precision SCM-6152e.

My Evo III GT ingested a small piece of FOD and dinged the crap out of one of the Compressor Blades.

I contacted Tom @ turbochargers and confirmed they would honor the warranty, I removed and boxed up my turbo and sent it to him, he had it rebuilt and sent out to me...Total turn around time was under 4 weeks!

I am totally satisfied with the customer service I recieved before, during and after my experience with Turbochargers.com.

I never got the chance to go back to the track with Race Gas and more boost
I know it would have achieved 110 mph traps on 25+

Anyone looking to "upgrade" to a B16G, do not hesitate to choose the GT...I would do it again if I didn't already have the 6152 hanging

Ummm...hmm

Too much on the line to take a chance. I would go MHI everytime. Just not worth the gamble.

GSXTACY- I'm just curious as to why you chose to buy from turbochargers.com? I'm assuming at the time you bought the kit, you got the exhaust manifold, turbo, and install kit for $700. Which is an excellent deal. But now they upped the price to $800, which is still a great deal, don't get me wrong, but it seems to me that if you don't NEED an exhaust manifold then there is no real point of buying the kit. And you could save yourself some money, if you don't need an exhaust manifold, if you just bought the turbo and an install kit seperately.

Also, if I might ask, how was the quality of the install kit itself (ex: gaskets, feed lines, bolts, etc.)? Thanks, and great review

You can buy a FP race manifold + MHI Evo316g + [knowing it's going to last and outflow that GT knockoff crap] for about the same price at forced performance.

My reasons for buying from turbochargers.com listed like this:

No Hassle warranty on the EVO III GT, any defect or failure at all, NO HASSLE....(and I didn't get ANY hassle having my turbo rebuilt to 100% new specifications.)

$699 price...

I had a 2G manifold that had been cracked and then repaired...and I wanted a NEW extra beefy manifold.

It was a complete KIT with J-pipe, gaskets, bolts, washers, and turbocharger.
(quality of the KIT was top notch, matter of fact still using the manifold

I looked on FP's website for another replacement FP B28 and guess what....it costs $148.43more for the FP B28 than it did for the complete 2g solution from turbochargers.com....

Overall, I would highly recommend the Evo III GT to anyone looking for a B16g.
It spooled like a T25, it hit like a 20g, and it went faster than my previous FP Big28 on pump gas.

What I don't understand is why you were reaching full spool at 3800rpm. Sounds incredibley slow for a 16g variant.

Sorry to bring this back up, but seems like the most informative thread.

We recently got a 2g talon tsi, and it has the EVO III GT 16g on it. And I too noticed full boost at higher rpms, as stated gsxtacy. It's running 6bolt swap, i believe it has 1g head and intake manifold, but they decided to use a 2g tb?!?!? Yea I don't know why either. It has all the usual supporting mods. There does not seem to be any boost leaks, car runs very well driving around. It has dsmlink, not tuned yet. But I did notice the slower spool up. My comparison is with my old RRE ported big16g setup on my gsx, that hit full boost very fast, ~3000,3200rpm its been a while. When we first got the car I was impressed because it was spinning all of first and 2nd it would still spin, no tuning. But this was because there was a huge kink in the boost gauge line. So all the times we were running 19-20lbs on the gauge, it was probably more like 25lbs!! Now that I fixed everything running actual 19-20lbs, I need to tune it because I'm no longer impressed. My 50trim with stock 7-bolt feels like it can walk this 2g fwd 6bolt on the freeway. Which I'll be testing soon enough.

Anyways, are all you evo iii gt 16g users getting full spool in the upper 3000~rpm?

I had the same turbo (evo3 gt 16gt) on my last car (95 gst). It kicked arse for like 1 year until I sold the car. I love turbochargers customer service, and how they easily honor their warranties. FP customer service..hmmm..read up on some review threads to find that one out. Great customer service goes a long way with me.

marq95gst said:

I had the same turbo (evo3 gt 16gt) on my last car (95 gst). It kicked arse for like 1 year until I sold the car. I love turbochargers customer service, and how they easily honor their warranties. FP customer service..hmmm..read up on some review threads to find that one out. Great customer service goes a long way with me.

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Is that some kind of joke?

marq95gst said:

I had the same turbo (evo3 gt 16gt) on my last car (95 gst). It kicked arse for like 1 year until I sold the car. I love turbochargers customer service, and how they easily honor their warranties. FP customer service..hmmm..read up on some review threads to find that one out. Great customer service goes a long way with me.

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Most people (read: everyone but you) have said the opposite, the complete opposite.

yup^^^^^

RedTurboEclipse said:

Sorry to bring this back up, but seems like the most informative thread.


Anyways, are all you evo iii gt 16g users getting full spool in the upper 3000~rpm?

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I've had the evo3 16g gt package from turbochargers.com on my car for a few months now and I am also experiencing full spool (set to ~15psi) right now in the upper 3000 rpms. It's okay, but I'm a bit disapointed..I also thought it was supposed to hit full spool by around 3200 or so.

It's probably the compressor dragging on the housing from the shaft play

I have had my Evo GT kit for roughly a year now. There is close to 10,000 miles on the turbo zero shaft play in/out and side to side. I hit full boost right around 3500 rpm. I think it is a great turbo even though its not the mhi evo III o well.

I would still like to see someone put down some decent competitive numbers with this turbo in comparison to an MHI Evo3 turbo.

stevew1 said:

I've had the evo3 16g gt package from turbochargers.com on my car for a few months now and I am also experiencing full spool (set to ~15psi) right now in the upper 3000 rpms. It's okay, but I'm a bit disapointed..I also thought it was supposed to hit full spool by around 3200 or so.

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If this turbo is anything like the tdo5h 16gs look alikes I've seen for sale on ebay: the turbine housing on those are .70 a/r. If it is remotely close to the same dimensions of an MHI turbine housing, then that a/r number indicates a quite large volute volume for a td05h or 'td05h look alike' wheel.

Boosted98gsx said:

It's probably the compressor dragging on the housing from the shaft play

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yea no shaft play in the one that came with this car. But looks like its confirmed that these EVO III GT turbos spool up slower.. full boost around 3500-3800. Guess it's "normal"