Just wanted to post my response to a thread from Clubsi:

Currently most if not all turbos that come out of Turbonetics use their own housings(T). The inner workings are from Garrett or various other manufacturers. You can't go to Garrett to buy a turbo, just as you can't go directly to Honda and buy a car. Turbonetics chooses to rebadge Garrett parts as their own. This is true for most turbos as stated by Dee.

Over the past 5 years, we have received a total of a dozen or so Turbonetics turbos back, out of thousands shipped, for warranty claims. I think that is a very good quality percentage. Of the dozen or so turbos returned half were not manufacturer's defects. The owners did not maintain their vehicles properly and debris in the oil killed the seals. If a turbo is truely defective it will let you know very early on.

With any product, there will always be a sample of defective items. To bad mouth a company because you may be one of the few in that percentile is do so in poor judgement. My advise, don't drive your car into the ground, maintain it properly and you won't have anything to worry about.

Just wanted to add:
Up until 1-2 years ago, Turbonetics was still using Garrett housings. So anyone you know with a DRAG, Rev Hard, or FMAX kit bought his kit before they started using their own housings. Just an FYI.

 

Ben.. I'm glad you posted this here too because a lot of people are just passing straight BS w/o any proof. I rebuilt (3) Turbos(T04E,T04S, T300S) with parts from turbonetics 4 months ago and we haven't experienced any problems yet. The T04S is on a FD3S RX-7 that spanks the living monkey snot out of GTR's.


[Modified by drealgsr, 7:42 AM 8/31/2001]

 

Oh damn.. you mean that turbo I got is actually a garret turbo with a turbonetics enclosure??

*in a sarcastic smartass voice* "Oh darn!, shucks.... you mean I'm whipping some *** with a garret turbo and not a turbonetics one... golly gee wiz, now I'm weallly mad"

LMAO

Some people complain over the stupidest stuff!!!

Thanks for the info ben, now I have some more facts to back up my bullshit stories, errr i mean kills...

 

 

Not being a member of ClubSI im not 100% sure what the original post was about.. but I just wanted to say around Christmas I purchased a DRAG g3 kit from the wonderful guys at ImportParts and I can say I have had no problems with the turbocharger that came with the kit (Turbonetics housing).

-Chris

 

Though I do not own a turbo yet, it's good to know that someone out there is not feeding turbo newbies(like me) bs. Thanks a lot ben, I will be looking forward to buying a turbo kit from you and impoparts.com next year.

 

Chris, car looks sweet! I think you missed a couple of spots on the bumper and fenders though.

 

But... Garrett and Turbonetics aren't JDM!! They don't really know anything about tuning imports. I'd rather pay $2000 for the equivalent mitusbishi turbo so I have the peace of mind knowing my turbo is authentic japanese equipment.


[Modified by dbman96, 10:28 AM 8/31/2001]

 

hehe yea.. paint is next on the list now that im happy with the engine

 

David, that's a good point! Maybe we should all shell out $10,000.00 for Japanese turbo kits.

 

I'll be here to help when you're ready!

 

LMAo.yeah yeah.i want a top fuel kit

 

ummmm.... most of the JDM kits use turbos that are made by Garrett Japan. Mitsu turbos come in last place when it comes to JDM turbo kits for Honda's.

HKS GT Series full BB (Garrett Japan)
HKS non-BB (Garrett Japan)
Top Fuel/HKS kit (Garrett Japan)
Apex-i full BB (IHI)
Apex-i Non-bb (IHI)
Blitz/Top Fuel K26/K3T kit (KKK)
Greddy (Mitsubishi non BB)
Ricoh Racing (Mitsu and HKS)

The majority of the smaller shops use HKS T25G and the smaller GT series turbos.
The shops who do use Mitsu turbos for high power use turbos that are impossible to fiond in the US... T67-20G and 25G



[Modified by drealgsr, 6:40 PM 9/1/2001]