Wow 482 not bad for the x

How many pounds?

 

27lbs

tapers to about 25 or so.
All of this on pump gas.

 

This was with the list of mods you posted that needed to be added or modify in order to make the install 100% correctly done.

 

I don't understand the question..

 

That this results were after you modify or corrected the issues with the oil lines and J pipe, upper pipe and turbo inlet??

 

results after i got those items fixed.

 

well I left this experiment.
To all of you guys thinking about it, I suggest you guys upgrading to an ETS turbo kit or something on those lines. To much of a headache.

My New setup ( just waiting for my turbo blanket and some relocation of sensitive heat items)

 

Ah, the old CFT-Sidewinder. That is a cool looking manifold. Nice setup.

So, here are my final thoughts on the Kinugawa 25G turbo:

1). That bearing is absolute and utter garbage. Kinugawa turbos come with an MHI bearing (from a Subaru, I believe), and it is crap.

2). The wheels are mismatched on this turbo. A TD06SL2 cannot adequately keep up with the 25G compressor wheel.

3). The generic 25G compressor housing is the dagger.

 

Nfslancerra.. I thought your 25g was custom made by yourself.. I looking foward to to your same set up but with a 9 blade. Im especting at least450- 465 do to my sst... But i have forged internals 86.5 wiseco pistons, manley rods, arp main studs, arp headstuds, PP cylinder head and intake manifold, bc272 cams with its bc springs, 3.5 IC ams uip, evo x lip, ams intake, synapse bov,tubular manifold, 3 inch no restriction tbe and meth... Will have dual maps.. 93 and 104 octane...Was hoping that your set up td06h- 25g with 9 blades at least take me to or beyond 450whp

 

I am well over 500 HP, at this point, but that is a completely custom made turbo. The wheels are Kamak...that is about the only thing that my turbo and the Kinugawa have in common. I cut my own compressor housing and am using a re-cast turbine housing with more material around the outlet (so that I needn't clip my turbine wheel or weld my housing).

 

The turbine housing i found a comoany that sells them and im buying the td06h from them. And a turbo shop here is going to port a compressor housing to 25g specs with 3 inch inlet and use mhi rebuild kit on it with upgraded 360 JB. Compressor wheel will be billet too provided by them.

 

Very cool! I look forward to updates on that!

 

So after the "experiment" and NFS post about the components do you still stand by your claim that these turbo's are not of inferior design and build?

 

Note: My opinion(s) are just that, opinion(s). There is nothing technically wrong with using an IHI bearing. There is also nothing technically incorrect about using a generic 25G housing. What I did was as opposed to buying an EF4 or FP-Black and may not be relevant to those looking at a budget turbo.

 

its not , the problem with it is not the turbo.. But the usage of the wrong compressor cover and the junk they give you as far as oil feed lines and return lines.

1) You have to make your own inlet if you want it to fit the stock UICP
2) the oil return line does not work with stock one.

I spend more time getting stuff fabricated , by the time fabrication is done, you have spent easily another 150-200 dollars so a $1000 turbo now just became a 1200.. not that far off from other direct bolton turbos already available.
I made awesome power with it. My nightmare and beef is not with the turbo itself but the shop that did the work on my car that caused all the nightmares i had in the first place ( oil leaks , coolant leaks, etc, which eventually caused a fire)

Your milage may vary in otherwords. If a reputable shop would've worked on it instead , we might've seen different results.