Tom Tucker

East Coast Customs, Brisbane north side

Yeah, I'm pretty impressed, although my repco axles, standard rods and npc single plate probably aren't. I have no idea how that clutch managed to hold that power. Need a built motor. Twitching for full send. But will have to wait until next year. I theorise that the 6boost manifold is making a big difference, noting the old GT3582 made 360kw on 98 at 18psi. I also suspect the big 60mm external gate is increasing VE. And e85 is just doing its usual sorcery. Unfortunately you guys will probably only see a 98 tune on 16psi and an e85 tune on 18psi. Hopefully it'll provide some useful data though! Pics of the setup will be a week or so off, getting some final powder coating done. But imagine high mount, all vbands and plazmaclamps

Tuners first words were "I know you didn't want peak power but this is what it did without even trying..."

Hot off the press. On 18lb 98 its making 450 odd kw. On 20lb e85, its making 530 odd kw. Told the tuner to turn it down... he said he can easily get more. Turbo is a beast. I'll have a dyno sheet comparison with the old GT3582 in the next couple of days. I think response has suffered, in order to keep the stock engine together...

Sorry gents, the wait continues. Should have it going in two weeks. Had a delay with a few annoying parts (plazmaclamps) and ceramic coating

How do the xyz brakes go? I was told to give them a wide berth?

You're right. Should get my car in a week or so! Fab has taken a while. Ceramic coating, delay on plazmaclamps etc...

Just bleed the brakes mate. What do you have to lose, except for 2L of brake fluid?

Awesome footage. Do you run an oil cooler at all?

Good to know. I use the repco ones too

Nice one, you make it look easy. Are you running stock axles?

Nice! Do you have a trutrack or stock diff? Are you clutch kicking third gear mostly?

It should pull though

Shall do. I'm expecting pretty similar to the GT3582, might even lose a little spool on the 6 boost high mount, but hopefully that's mitigated with the 1.01 turbine housing, coupled with 60mm genV gate I'm assuming it can be fitted to a stock housing, but it's all vband, so I'm not sure how it'd work.

Nice one man. How does she sound? My car is going in next week for the G35-900 upgrade. I should have some results in a few weeks

I didn't mean to upset you man. Your questions were predicated around a decision already made. The reason you're not getting responses from anyone is that your questions are super common on all turbo performance forums, and they all end the same way. If you search through this site, the most recent documented thread I saw was a member trying a gtx3576 knock off, and it failed before he bought a genuine garrett. All the testing for these turbos go the same way. Member buys one, says quality is better than expected. Member fits and gets dynoed, says its great. Shortly thereafter, member either disappears and you never hear about it, or you get one that actually admits it broke in a week

Hope this helps.

Let's be honest man. You've already decided on a sh*t Chinese turbo based on the flawed logic that most stuff is made in China so how bad can it be? Now you're just looking for moral support to justify your decision. Seems to be some decent reports from the Aeroflow turbos which come in significantly cheaper than garrett. Other than that, I can't understand why anyone would consider cheap Chinese turbos that have invariably burnt anyone that has ever bought one, with the exception to the rule being a handful of reports from people that allegedly haven't had issues.

My e85 crank time sounds similar to yours. Maybe 8-10 secs. Pretty normal, but I agree, it could be tuned better. Only to a point though, such is e85

Finished installing 6/4 Brembos over the weekend. Full fluid flush with Nulon super dot 4. Bit of mucking around with clearance for my Enkei RPF1s. Originally got crossover pipe adaptors but ended up having to get custom crossover pipes made. Got my old 4 pot/PBR combo if anyone is looking for an upgrade.

So I'm going the G35-900 also. Will post results on stock bottom end in a few months. There's a fair wait on 6 boost manifolds at the moment. Mine won't be about peak hp because of the stock rods, but should give an indication of comparable response to a standard GT3582. I'll send it with build motor, which will be in the pipeline.

I'd be curious if it would be slightly laggier than log manifold, and whether it'd hold boost better in the upper rev range...

Has anyone tried high mounting a Gtx3576 G2 on a 6 boost manifold? Surely the compressor would benifit from extra flow and better boost control with external gate? Or is it not big enough?

Really interested to see how this goes. Send it!

Hey mate, check the wiring to your cam sensors at the back of the motor. The wiring often melts and causes misfiring. Given where yours is breaking up though, it's probably something else like CAS. Assuming your coils, coil plug wiring and plugs are fine...