Spleen8urLSX
5+ Year Contributor
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- Dec 26, 2017
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Elyria,
Ohio
I would steer clear of their turbos still, same Chinese turbo that all the other vendors are selling, but if you find a blown one cheap to rob the turbine housing off of you’re in business! @JusMX141 is who you need to talk to when you’re ready for a 16g, built my 14b I have here (using the 7cm eBay housing with a little work done) and built the 16g I ran cranked to the moon. But yeah I’m with you, I cringe every time I see someone use those stainless ARP bolts in the manifold, why they offer them I’ll never know. I will say searching by bolt dimensions you can buy standard ARP bolts through Summit not listed as turbo to manifold bolts but I couldn’t speak for how they do compared to the OEM ones.That’s a good point. A hairline crack is forming on the inside of the exhaust housing. However it isn’t through to the outside, so I can’t drill it and weld it. I was going to wait for it to pop through and then fix it. But if the $100 Chinese eBay special exhaust housings aren’t bad, maybe I’d do that instead. Was considering a 16g, but the only semi reliable brand I could find was CXracing. I know their stuff has gotten better over the past few years but I still am not sure if I’d trust one of their turbos.
I’m with you 100% on not using stainless in cast. Unfortunately, it seems that stainless is the only material offered by arp for the turbo to manifold. I’m not sure what their thought process was on that one.