Garrett Turbos Going Down Hill?

[XRATED]

Ouch... thats an expensive "test"

[discopotato03]

No , Garrett ball bearing turbos for HKS Japan are made by Garrett Japan . Garrett is not one company at one plant in the US . You have Garrett in Europe Japan and a lot of other places . I'm told some housings are even made here in Australia but no idea where abouts .

Anyway HKS gets say a GT3076R/GT3037 from Garrett Japan and adds their own turbine housing/Tag/Inlet bell mouth . Don't think for a minute that they buy turbochargers and modify them , they use as much Garrett content as they can and only change what the application demands . Some like the RB26 GTSS turbos are ALL Garrett content bar the actuator .

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[hypergear]

Garrett turbine housings for Ford GT3540 used to be made in here in Vic. They used to work with this casting factory in Bendigo, but back then the R&R on those castings were slightly higher then what Garrett wanted. So they give all their jobs to another factory in QLD. But been fked over because the turn around time was way too long.

After that their jobs was given to a factory in Brazil and I believe now in China Shanghai.

The engineering joint we are working with used to machine all the Garrett housing. I've been told they used to charge them $120 to machine one housing and you get that done overseas for like $2.