so where can i get this kit from, vision imports... man rpw needs better rep. no one really knows of rpw.

 

no really. DIS-CO PO-TA-TO

 

That's hilarious

WADAD

 

I think RPW is more ignored than anything else.
I've tried to do my part to change that...I'm N/A though.

WADAD

 

Rhyzin- how fast does that spool compared to the standard 28R?

 

Yeah for people like me... Planning to boost.. i wish i knew More about their products like i do with Ripp and RRM, Tsi is starting to get more popular around here. hopefully RPW finds a better marketing strategy / vendor

 

mmmm, i've been reading 5psi between 2-3k. you can probably read about sport compact car mag's project silvia or alex pfeiffer's s2000(although those aren't fair comparisons to what we're doing). the compressor and turbine wheels are negligibly smaller than a small 16g, but the ball bearing cartridge should help with the spool up and keeping the boost up. ultimately, it's rated practical cfm is less than a small 16g(450cfm vs 470cfm), but is in the right range for midrange guys.

i love rpw myself. got a few items from them already and waiting to get suspension out of the way before sending more money back to them.

 

But don't the potatoes get soft in the middle if they get too hot? and what about the outer casing or "skin" breaking under heat? a good tuner shop will perforate the casing to let the steam out so the skins don't fail under warmup

Ok, enough of that

 

reading that again, i'm going to go out on a limb and say the t28r will spool faster, but lose steam sooner. the t28rs will flow more (same comp wheel dia but larger trim and exhaust housing options) and actually comes in different compressor wheels now for even more flow(at the price of spoolup). and then a little after that, you start getting into the gt30r variant neck of the woods. lots of options.

i'm gonna say though that with us being fwd, we're going to want a little lag for off-the-line traction or not having to worry about losing traction in a turn because you blipped the throttle.

well then, you just have 'tater skins.

 

The turbo we use standard with the kits so far is the 320hp Garret T28 unit. This is perfect for most cars who only ever plan on using stock internals. WIll produce at around 13 psi (Max of stock internals) around 250hp at the flywheel, starts boosting positivly under 2000 rpm and by 2600 rpm you have full boost all the way to the redline.

The beauty is that our next turbo upgrade for this kit which I am putting together now is a Garret SB8032A (which is a variation of a GT25/30 hybrid) which runs the exhaust housing of the T28 but a larger inlet housing and is rated to 400hp. This is perfect as it still has low spool up times of a blal bearing turbo, but improves the top end and for forged internal engins woudl go great.

Going beyond this turbo requires a complete new fabrication of the turbo manifold and dump pipe as well as moving to external wastegate which is not something we have done to this date simply cause most people have found that by the time you have 400hp at the flywheel in a FWD, you really don't neeed more than that.

as far as marketing, selling etc goes, we have just hired a new mechanic back into our shop which has released me from a lot of work to go back to what I do best, marketing, designing and selling. We are adopting some new firms soon which are going to be joining our USA market as well as setting up a system where if you are unable for whatever reason to get satisfactory service from a USA agent of ours, we will deal direct with the customer and sort things out from there.

BUt some of the new firms are very keen to market appropiatly, and I know that visions are hiring some new staff and looking to improve themselves to make themselves easier to contact so only good things are going to be happening over the next months.

 

wow, ran a quick check. looks good

 

The big T-28 is a modified turbo... Garret produces the T-25 which gets modified on compressor side for the T-28 and modified on both compressor and exhaust for the BIG t-28.

It is still a garret turbo only modified to become bigger/badder/better.

http://www.roadraceengineering.com/i...bowarranty.htm

A few lines down on the above link you will see that the turbo's are done by forced performance for RRE... the same for RRM. I don't know who does them in overseas applications.

To state it again they are real Garret turbo's though. The big thing that is being confused is that there are knockoff turbo's claiming to be T-25's and T-28's. If it's a true garret it will look like this...

http://www.horsepowerfreaks.com/View...IG_T28_LRG.jpg

All the TSI kitted turbo's i've seen are knockoff's. Beware that they have a tendancy to brake early in their life... RPW uses the garret ball bearing or offers the smaller garrets from what i've seen. But they are real garrets as far as i can tell.

Investigate what your looking for before buying... some manufacturers will use the being "based overseas" to protect themselves from any issues that could arise due to their fault. You can't attack a distributor as the originator of the product is the only one who can be forced to do anything.

RPW has came a long way since their beginnings on here... they've had to fight to keep up and are coming up and up more and more. They should never be counted out or feared. However i do believe they need to get an actaul US based wherehouse. Takes to long and costs to much to cross the ocean.

 

I know that last was a lot to take in...

A kit from RPW does take some work... intercooler... piping... tuning(emanage/afc/dyno time/etc.) as well as a little know how if you have to do stage 2 involving a cam install.

RPW's real only downfalls are that their turbo is massively expensive... they are based across an ocean... and the kits aren't as user friendly as others.

They take some work... they take some patients... but they can provide you with the speed you'd be looking for. A lot of guys combine RRM and RPW parts to make massive hp...

Omarboy25 is doing just that and pushing over 300whp/wtq.

 

I disagree on both statements.

 

you would...

1,700 bucks for a turbo is expensive... hell a 25G doesn't even cost that much.

Also being overseas delays their shipments... raises prices for the shipments...

So what's there to disagree on... RPW knows that this is hurting them a little. They have distrubutors in the US but they don't stock heavily enough and still, last i checked, expect you to pay for shipping costs from Aus!

Now how do you exactly disagree?

If they used a 16G or 18G for their stuff they'd drop about 800 bucks if not more off the kit. This would make up for the shipping costs right there plus. If they were stocked items in the US and you'd have them faster it would take care of the only other issue i know they have( delayed shipments)

Just some thoughts... Maybe they could take the reduction in turbo price and turn it into a full kit with piping/intercooler/and emanage tuned?? That would be sweet.