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Has anyone had any experience with these turbos? The general consensus is that they are pretty good, but I have read a few bad comments about them on the Internet. The supplier was very confident about the quality and promised a one year warranty with the turbo.

Anyone have any first hand experience with Master Power?

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Its looking good so far. Im going for a T3/T04e. 60trim good for 240rwkw. Its going on my RB20DET. The price im getting it for is very, very reasonable. And the fact that theres a one year manufacturers warranty on it makes it more appealing to me.

Anymore experiences appreciated. :D

The feed back i have had from people running these turbos are that they work reasonability well and seem to take a bit of punishment BUT because of the cheap construction and materials used they will not spool as quick a good Garret or HKS turbo etc but they will still make a reasonable power figure and those run a respectable 1/4 mile as responce isn't very importane for drags etc .I dont think these would be well suited to track use tho, this is only my opinion from results i have seen in relation to performance gained for these turbos.

So if you just want a bit more hp and do occuational drags and dont mind a bit of lag time they might just be a good option for you.

ok i think i better exspand on my statement about responce is not important for drags, as you know most of the best turbo combos for drag are just big hp combos lag not a real consideration as you can lauch at 7000rpm or higher and once off the line its all about getting hp to the ground. If lag was a consideration of drag racing you would never see twin Veilside 3542 twin combos run etc as turbos that size would take some spooling up.

The car will be used as a daily driver, weekend night drag wars (Meremere in NZ) and im also very keen on drifting. I figure a clutch kick will easily get the wheels spinning and revs climing. Once traction is lost, lag wont be a problem and the extra power uptop will keep the wheels spinnig. Do I have the right idea here, or should i really be looking for response on a drift car? Most of the top D1 cars in NZ run massive turbo setups on SR20's, RB20/25DET's. Surely they have lag issues to deal with too, but they seem to have no problems drifting with this setup at all.

*Hope this doesnt turn into a response vs lag on drift cars discussion, as im still very keen on hearing your opinion and experiences with these turbos :D. But so far, i think im going to make the order...

well you've just said it yourself. drifting one would assume you need the quickest amount of response possible, aka come on as quick as possible and hard. so ideally a well sized ball bearing unit would be perfect. this is where the stocker hiflowed would be a perfect setup. the stocker would then have new internals and wont have any more lag the you currently have

That sounds awesome. But that turbo is way out of my budget. The Masterpower im getting is half the price! I know you get what you pay for, but paying half the price for a little more lag but never the less a reliable (as everyone seems to be saying) turbo seems like a good proposition.

I picked up all my parts yesterday and thought id post a pic of the turbo we've been discussing. Im no expert, but this looks to be a very good quality turbo.

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This is a pic of the parts together. I am having doubts that the manifold will: -

A-Fit in between the motor and strut tower in the S14, as it is designed for a Skyline.

B-Clear the turbo compressor housing...I think the comp housing will be in contact with the rocker cover. But fingers crossed!! If that fails, custom fabricated manifold will be the go.

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Here is a picture of my car, which will be copping a gearbox rebuild, motor will be pulled out and fitted with new bearings and the turbo kit will be fitted! The UNI holidays are gonna be fun....gonna have to work my ass off to be able to affird the work though :(

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