Identiftying Fitted Turbo?

[Zebbie]

Hey all...

I need to identify the turbo that's currently fitted to my '33...

How far will I need to dismantle, to be able to id it?

It's meant to be a T3/4 Hybrid, Is there normally anything that I can look for to confirm this?

It's a low mount, with a Nissan wastegate, heat sheild, and happily holds 13/14 PSI, but before increasing boost etc, I'd of course like to know what I have, and what it can do :-/

Cheers,

Zebbie

[CEF11E]

Its a bit hard to know exactly what you are looking at on the car.

Things you can look at

Compressor housing. Take off the pipe from the AFM to the turbo and look for the numbers on the compressor housing. r33 is usually 45V2. Try to measure the inlet size of the snout.

A high flow compressor cover will be wider than the snout of a standard housing.

Try to move the shaft of the turbo back and forth and in and out.

it should have very little movement 1mm or less.

have a good look at the CHRA and the size of it. (you can compare sizes of other CHRAs on the net to confirm wether yours is BB or PB.

Try to identify what the markings on your turbile housing are. OP6, 45V ect. This will tell you what sort of turbo it was before the highflow.

also if you take off the dump pipe and get under the car you will be able to loog at the exhaust wheel. put a magnet next to it and see if it is metallic or ceramic.

do a search on SAU with all the numbers and measurements you have to confirm exactly what you have.

hope this helps.

really the only way to know is to pull the turbo off, however if it is working perfectly you could wind the boost up slowly and see what the performance is like. if you get to 14psi and you have a max power of 190rwkw, its a standard turbo.

[Zebbie]

Cef11e,

Thanks!!