i recently swapped out a bunch of stuff on my car, and one of them was to a new turbo mani with a vband flange to mount up to a vband precision. i'm now leaning towards a garrett turbo. does garrett make any vband housings for their turbos, or is there such a thing as a vband to t3 converter? I'm not really interested in hacking up the mani to convert it to t3 if that's the only option

thx

 

im almost positive you can get garrets in vband man

 

not all. Only the GT-R series can be offered in a v-band discharge. The Journal bearings series do not. Only precision and BW offer a T3 turbine inlet v-band discharge.

As for converting from V-band back to T3, an adapter would have to be made, or get another manifold.

 

so you can get a gt28r or gt30r with a vband inlet and vband downpipe connection? can anyone link me? googling is failing me hard right now

 

Yes. TiAL makes them

http://www.tialsport.com/prod_ss_avail.html

About $400 for small and mid-framed housing

 

yeah i just found that i can buy a gt3076 w/ that tial frame for $1500 from atp turbo. now i just gotta decide if its worth selling my 5857 and spending another 600 on this

thanks for the help

 

If it were me. Yep. But, that's if it were me.

 

could you explain why? i'm at a critical juncture here of installing soon or swapping turbos. once it's on, I don't want to have to switch!

 

bump it

 

I take it your 5857 is only journal?

PS, sometimes coming on here is a bad idea for me. Hate finding stuff I'd really love to have knowing full well what it will cost to do it lol. Vband from the manifold would be really nice...

 

yeah vband is really nice, my entire exhaust setup is vband and i'll never go back to flanges.

the 5857 is journal. my issue with it is that precisions are known to have issues on high oil pressure motors, so I don't wanna waste my time if its gonna die on me ina month

 

I had this made up for me by phil from spoolin.

 

^ he's talking about the inlet, not discharge.