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    Committee, Moderator Matt Cole's Avatar
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    Never mind your Garrets!

    I though my BW turbo was big untill i caught an eye on a friend of a friends new EFR jobbie:

    http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/show...&postcount=356

    That will do i think!

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    Re: Never mind your Garrets!

    that should do it what power is the fella aiming for ?

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    Re: Never mind your Garrets!

    have been following his build thread. If you havent read the rest he has 4x4 his leon. Gana be a weapon. Think his gana be going for around 500??? Turbo rated upto 800 i think i read.

    Some awesome work!
    Last edited by tom t; 18-11-2011 at 21:08.

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    Re: Never mind your Garrets!

    I nearly went for one of these only a 9180 but had already brought a manifold for use with an external gate. A turbo out of the box with all the bells and whistles

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    Re: Never mind your Garrets!

    I really like these but from what I can tell they only do single scroll in there smaller sizes.

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    Re: Never mind your Garrets!

    There's been some horror stories about the EFR's in terms of shafts snapping and compressor wheels comming free ! Otherwise they seem to do the numbers just fine. I still prefer the precision range, maybe because more people have tried them and had good success, I'm not sure, but BW offer some good value for money.

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    Re: Never mind your Garrets!

    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    There's been some horror stories in terms of shafts snapping
    Nothing worse than snapping your shaft Sounds painful

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    Re: Never mind your Garrets!

    Borg Warner suffer really badly with metal fatigue. They're the only turbo manufacturer I've seen it happen with over and over again. Compressor wheels literally explode from high boost levels.

    They're so bad we don't even re-man they're product for the Audi/VW 1.9 deisel range, we make our own Garrett unit to replace it.

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