'Netics Stage III Wheel/drop in?

[RR]

Hey guys,
Building up my Garrett Ford T-3 Turbo to marry my b23ft buildup soon and wondering if Turbonetics Stage III Turbine Wheel assembly will drop into my .63 exhaust housing, or even a .48, which is in the car now without any modification. I do intend to use the .60 comp wheel, but the turbine wheel is in pretty poor shape. Would it even do me any good for about 250 street hp? Looking for quicker spool, with new ipd cam, which is in.
Thanks,
RR

[linuxman51]

oh it certainly will not drop in. you're gonna hafta get one or the other machined to accept the wheel.. and I would only trust a turbo shop to do that kind of machine work...

[87_744Turbo]

why do you want to put a stage III wheel with such a small compressor wheel? you need a matching housing as said above. the .63/t3 .60trim can flow enough air for about 300bhp@24psi!!! If your exhaust wheel on your current turbo isn't damaged you could just swap compressor housing and get it balanced, or just get it rebuilt. I wouldn't worry about a staged turbine wheel unless you going to run a larger compressor. Ie. super 60 or t04 compressors.

[RR]

I appreciate the advice and am doing some research myself on matching turbos to motors, also looking for some real world experience to go with theory. What I think i'm going to do is exactly that, use my existing .48 turbine housing and wheel with the 60 trim compressor wheel w/ matched housing(nissan). Gotta study more. Gonna stay with the AW-71 also.
Thanks,
RR

[87_744Turbo]

that should work well. So are you using the nissan compressor housing so you don't have to make adapter flanges for the ford housing? I think the ford housin is a little more efficient than a nissan housing, but I guess making it easier to install would be worth while.

[RR]

87,
You may be right about efficiency. With the ford housing, besides being beat up, I had the inlet issue as well as the outlet issue. Found a 'new' nissan 60 trim housing that is nearly identical to Volvo as far as inlet/outlet config. We'll see; its 'crapshoot, engineering for me anyway, with buildup b23ft and k-jet, ipd turbo cam, and all the mods.
Hey, thanks for the interest.
Regards,
RR

[Paul F]

To add to the info above, a stage 3 turbine wheel would spool slower than the stock Ford wheel. The advantage would be that it would flow more exhaust on the top end at the expense of spool up.

[RR]

Thanks again,
RR

[jao]

sounds like a good plan to me, i even have a ford turbo and a nissan housing in the garage... but please, oh please think about megasquirting that beast! i HATE k-jet. it's the devils' toy i tell you...

both places here in my town say that it would be $300 tops to tune my car from just installed programable EFI + Ignition...

-jesse
megasquirted 245 going on... almost 3 years now!

[RR]

jao,
yeah, i've looked at m'squirt, and programmable fuel/spark systems like sds and such and you know what, I'd love to go that route, esp the sds system. M'squirt sounds like the best bang for buck, but being electrically challenged can't seem to pull the trigger. Gonna try my k-jet for now since I seem to have plenty of fuel goin' on inside.
Thanks for the interest,
RR

[linuxman51]

they can be had pre-assembled O:-)

[RR]

I know linux, 'been readin' your stuff. Thought about it, still thinkin' about it...
RR