Garrett Medium Frame Gtx Turbos

[Lithium]

Considering this is a thread about fancy new turbos, there isn't enough turbo pr0n so I thought I'd save it with some scenary:

[badhairdave]

I'm starting to think BW intentionally uglied up their turbos to scare off fanboys.

It just looks untidy...

[ShiftyTys]

First of all - what's ".73"? Is it a reference to HKS housing or something?

Second - thought are that we should wait for real-world results. As of now this turbo does not seem to justify the price difference between it and conventional 3071. On the other hand price difference is not that big, 1392 USD for GTX3071 + housing that you can buy everywhere vs. 1448 USD for GT3071 [data taken from ATPTurbo site].

Personally I think (at this stage I have no real world data, so I can only assume) GTX3071 is the best of all medium-frame GTX turbos currently available and is not worse than GT3076. E.g. compressor requires less revs to reach similar airflow to 76mm GT compressor , and in general seems to spend shaft power more efficiently. The biggest concern of course is that GT3076 and RB25 combo is tried and proven many times, as is GT3071, whereas GTX turbos have yet to prove themselves.

Are you sure? I'm not questioning your experience with GT3076, but some results I've seen for 3071's so far, particularly with .63 housings, look awesome in that they have factory-like boost threshold with 1.5 or more times power and make more torque everywhere, which I think is the key to a nice and fun street setup The same definitely can not be said about GT3076.

.73 is the exhaust housing. It's a custom housing AVO can do.

[NYTSKY]

I'm starting to think BW intentionally uglied up their turbos to scare off fanboys.

It just looks untidy...

Agreed.

[juggernaut1]

I'm starting to think BW intentionally uglied up their turbos to scare off fanboys.

It just looks untidy...

Possible fitment issues to. The wastegate actuator is hanging in the breeze a bit.

Needs a billet blow off valve cover too

[Lithium]

I'd quite happily rock one, have no intention of stock mounting it anyway so clearance should be fine

[FineLine]

I'm starting to think BW intentionally uglied up their turbos to scare off fanboys.

It just looks untidy...

Who gives a toss how it looks if it meets the performace criteria. I hope they wax garretts arse to the point where garrett actually starts doing some real r&d and giving customers something better than 3rd rate service and dated designs.

[zebra]

Who gives a toss how it looks if it meets the performace criteria.

+11ty

[Trozzle]

I honestly reckon it looks f**king awesome.

[Legionnaire]

Well, just like GTX Garretts, EFRs still have to prove they are as good as BW advertises them to be.

I wodner if 7670 can be bolted to the factory RB25 manifold. Good prices though - GTX3076 costs 1400 + IW housing 350 bucks , so it's 1750. EFR7670 can be bought for ~1850-1900 with 0.83 T3 flanged hsg, and this price includes boost control solenoid and antisurge valve.

Bit it really should have T4 twinscroll IW housing, so 1950 for turbo + 1000 for suitable manifold. I need to allocate some money on this...

[DCIEVE]

1900US plus shipping, duties etc makes it a 2400AU turbo... more if bought from a local reseller. Btw there are already results floating around.

But this is the gtx thread.

[bradsm87]

I'm starting to think BW intentionally uglied up their turbos to scare off fanboys.

It just looks untidy...

I think it's great. Stops all the ricers from buying them (ppl who generally don't have the proper supporting mods and give bad names for turbos by posting dyno graphs). I know ppl who refuse to consider one due to the looks of the turbo. Silly people!

[zebra]

I think it's great. Stops all the ricers from buying them (ppl who generally don't have the proper supporting mods and give bad names for turbos by posting dyno graphs). I know ppl who refuse to consider one due to the looks of the turbo. Silly people!

Yet those people will happily what a "nice" looking turbo on the side of an RB25 with badly scractched cam covers with no coil cover and wires running everywhere.

GTS-R style low mount manifold looks better than any turbo anyway

[Trozzle]

I DON'T HAVE COIL COVER!!! I reckon it looks better without it, the plain black plastic looks cheap and tacky.

[GTScotT]

Link to BW results?

I think it is definitely relevant to the GTX thread, it is the competitors product... It would be good to compare the two

[badhairdave]

I think it's great. Stops all the ricers from buying them (ppl who generally don't have the proper supporting mods and give bad names for turbos by posting dyno graphs). I know ppl who refuse to consider one due to the looks of the turbo. Silly people!

Same, hence the comment. Though Noel took offence

Unless something even better comes out i will almost certainly be getting an EFR turbo next. Thinking about a high revving rb20 32gtst with a 7470 for some stupid reason these days....low mount of course to hide the elephant man looks of the comp cover

There's an EFR thread with some results in it scott

[Lithium]

There should be results in the next day or so of an STI which first had a .82a/r GT3076R, then replaced it with a .82a/r GTX3076R, and now afaik has a .83 EFR7670 going on it

Should be VERY interesting to compare!

[ShiftyTys]

There should be results in the next day or so of an STI which first had a .82a/r GT3076R, then replaced it with a .82a/r GTX3076R, and now afaik has a .83 EFR7670 going on it

Should be VERY interesting to compare!

Alot of good info on nasioc forums already.

[ShiftyTys]

Any more real world results on these turbos?

[boostn0199]

Any more real world results on these turbos?

+1 for in particular on a rb25 with a 3076 compared to a gtx3076 really need to see if there are benifets after talking about them for a while.