I was told not to buy this turbo because the turbo spins too fast for the housing and it will eventually blow (serious). Any truth behind this?

 

I'm not too sure who would have said that, but how far you turn the boost up determines the shaft speed of a turbo. The housing is exactly that, simply a housing. We've pushed this turbo to "Infinity and beyond" and only "Woody" would say something like that. It sounds like whoever told you that is either biased, or uninformed. This turbo has seen hard use at 35+psi and we never had 1 single failure, period.

 

^ he speaks the truth

 

NO.

Whoever told you that is ignorant and should do some homework.

 

Are you still using the FP Red?

 

i have a red and meth that sees 31psi daily with over 490whp and not one issue. go for the red. the car should have come with this turbo stock imo. good luck in your choice

 

The only thing I can think of is that some people have had boost creep at lower boost levels but you'll have to search to find out more info.

 

+1.... why not add add another 2 grand to the price of our evos HA HA

 

I'm having crazy boost creep with this FP RED turbo and can't even tune my car until I figure this out. FP doen't even know any solutions to it. Right now I bought a bigger 02 housing to see if that heps.

 

external dump!!!!!! FTW

 

I still have it and it's my own personal favorite turbo. I took the RED off when we got a new GT3586HTA from FP to test. I'll put the FP_RED up against any turbo in it's class. If you even check the ET's and MPH's, you see that it even competes and beats many of the 35ish turbo'd cars. The RED as well as ANY turbo just needs to be run within it's engineered guidelines. Shaftspeed being one of those.

 

SO what would you recommend if you can't control your boost even with a manuel boost controller and every supporting mods to make this turbo works fail. I have that problem and can't even tune my car.

 

From what I've read about the CBRD BBK turbos someone was having boost creep problems at lower rpms. So CBRD had him port his exhaust manifold and that did the job.

 

i have a 03 evo i just got the fp red installing it later this week im waiting for my
Invidia o2 housing and my buschur race fmic

MODES
buschur race fmic
INJEN INTAKE + INTERCOOLER PIPING
hks 272ex/in
apr head studs
precision 680cc
meth
Invidia o2 housing
dc 3" down pipe
3" hks carbon ti
aem tru-boots
aem a/f wideband
dynoflash in going to do the tuning

AM I GOING TO HAVE ANY OF THESE PROBLEMS????

 

I have several customers on the RED now, no problems...fantastic turbo and like Tom said, at full tilt with some great supporting mods like on their own it'll flat out embarrass quite a few 35R and bigger turbo cars.