Anyone using a standard bearing GT35 or GT37

[BOOSTIN21]

I am throwing my setup up for sale. Its an FP Red and extras. I was browsing extremepsi.com and ran through the Garrett standard bearing section. I have my eyes set on either the GT3562 or the GT3782 both T3 housings.
The car will have the tranny to sport the power, i dont care about lag too much. The car will see the 1320 mainly and will be street driven, but i'm not a moron and dont need to see boost everywhere i go.

Motor consists of the following:
Wiseco .040 over 8.5:1 pistons
Eagle H-Beam rods
Clevite bearings
ARP everything
polished knife edged crank
Stock Head
BC 272 intake and exhaust cams
Homemade water/alcohol injection
COP
Stock 1g intake manifold

I know it can see big boost and put up big numbers. Looking for 450-500whp.

Anyone have any experience with these turbos? I really cant complain about $900 for a gt37.

 

[GVR4592]

The GT3782 is a 55 lb/min turbo, it's not much larger than a GT30R. For your goal of 450-500whp, you dont need a turbo as large as a GT35R. I would go with a ball bearing turbo, they are more reliable than journal bearing turbo's.

 

[BOOSTIN21]

ehh, but ball bearing is out of my price range right now, i may just tweak my setup with the Red and go from there.
i could get a 35r setup for a very reasonable price but since the red is so flexible between 93 octane and race gas i will just stick with that.

thanks for the info by the way

 

[90laserRSfwd]

what's wrong with your FP red ?

 

[pneumo]

Red should be able to make 450-500hp. A smim should give you a nice jump in power.

I've been running a nonBB GT35 for about 1.5 years. Best track time is 10.8 @ 135mph. Dyno'd 439whp on FFtec's mustang dyno at 29psi. Currently running 33psi.

 

[Mikael SS]

I'm going to start sounding like a rep pretty soon:

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$700 for a BB 30r, 750 for a 35r.

A 30 will get you the power, but since you don't care about spool, go for the BB35r

I also wonder why with so much money in the car, why you would skip the head and intake mani.

Product Name - OBX Racing Sports

 

[silver bullit]

I'm going to start sounding like a rep pretty soon:

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$700 for a BB 30r, 750 for a 35r.

A 30 will get you the power, but since you don't care about spool, go for the BB35r

I also wonder why with so much money in the car, why you would skip the head and intake mani.

Product Name - OBX Racing Sports

Where are you seeing these prices at?

 

[GVR4592]

Ebay/Made in china crap.

 

[silver bullit]

Ebay/Made in china crap.

Well then it is crap made then not even worth buying it.

 

[tbTalonES94]

I am running a Gt35 non ball bearing turbo. .58 A/R Open T4 turbine housing with a t4 mani made by yours truly. Spool for me (at 20psi) is around 4,200 or so in 3rd gear. Very reasonable for the punch the thing gives at that kind of boost. I can't say anything bad about the turbo. It recovers boost decently and has a very reasonable power band compared to some other bigger turbos. I don't have any horsepower numbers or track times yet because I put it on in the beginning of winter...but I have no doubts that it will trap atleast 125mph with relatively lower boost (20-25psi). We will see I guess.

I don't see how non-ball bearing turbos aren't reliable. The ones that are built right and taken care of will out-last the car. Look how long mitsu turbos last. They aren't ball bearing and you see people selling/buying them with 75k+ miles on them. Still performing fine.

just my .02

-Trevor