please guys im looking to upgrade my tiny T25 stock turbo on my completely stock 98 spyder gs-t , i want the big 16g with the installation kit and some other goodies if you have it, so lmk i have cash on hand thanks..

 

why not pick up a brand new one from extremepsi.com... youll probably end up paying in the same ballpark used. $569 + 160 install kit, thats what im running on.

 

pick up a E3 16g on ebay for less than 300 WITH the install kit included. I have ran both a genuine MHI e3 and an ebay e3 and the only difference i noticed was a little bit slower spool on the ebay turbo. I had an ebay e3 16g on my 2g for 1 and a hlaf years and still had NO shaft play. id look into it

 

^Please don't do that, those ebay turbos are 9 times out of 10 pieces of crap.

 

Slowy and I have had awesome luck with ebay "junk". my knock off Type-S holds more boost then a real type-S and I have had it for close to a year

 

Really? i had an MHI 16g sold it then picked up an ebay 16g both boosted great. The guy I sold it to said that it has developed some shaft play, while at the time my ebay "piece of crap" still had none what so ever. Guy on tuners went mid 12s on an ebay 16g and hes still boosting on it. Its a hit or miss i guess, so id say its more than likely 3 or 4 times out of 10 that their crap

hell even a well known dsm vender is now selling ebay 16gs because of how they are holding up

 

Umm thanks im gonna check it out..

 

Thanks for letting me know bro , i really apreciate ur help.

 

It's alot easier to knock off a BOV than a turbo, IMO. I would run an ebay type-s.

Ok, maybe 9 out of 10 is an exaggeration. But most of the threads I've seen on dsmtalk/tuners about ebay turbos read the same. If the compressor doesn't eat itself and it doesn't start burning oil immediately after start up, then you got lucky, but only for about a year.

OP, sorry for jacking your thread, gl with finding a turbo!

 

+1 agreed