railz

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The saab 900 turbo comes with a Garrett charger.
A local is parting it out and wondering if you guys recommend picking up the turbo. Hes letting it go at a VERY attractive price.

zoomin

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IIRC, the 96 actually had a Mitsubishi turbo, then came the GT-17 shortly after that was tiny.

railz

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ahhh so its a mitsu turbo?

so this means it should mate with my dsm manifold?

zoomin

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I stand corrected, is this what it looks like? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/93-98...spagenameZWD1V

railz

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sort of? lol

zoomin

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so you don't even know??

samnavy

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Dude, Railz... seriously man, did you google this thing or not?

If you just type "1986 Saab 9000 turbocharger" into Google, about 30 seconds worth of looking will tell you it's a Garrett TB043. The TBO typically indicates an OEM model of a T3 series turbo.

During that painfully long 30 second search, I also found this:
GARRETT Turbo TB0343 for sale - TradeMe.co.nz - New Zealand
So now you know what the thing looks like.

It's a small T3, nothing special. On a 1.8litre motor, it'll probably spool around 3500-4000 rpm with a decent manifold and big exhaust and max out in the 16-17psi range and be good for 275whp give-or-take.

railz

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i did but its a "1996 saab 900" so nothing came up, not a 86 9000.

i guess i,ll pass on this turbo.

thanks for the imput though i do appreciate all the help