Daav

I recently finished up my turbo build on my 1.6 miata and went with the cx racing turbo kit (yes i've heard the turbo spools slow and the quality issues). I want to replace the laggy t3 with just another t3 china charger that will spool way faster, I'm wanting to keep the same manifold. I did my research and saw the posts that Braineck made about the 50 trim t3 he used on his 1.6 with pretty good spool but since most of those posts are older all of the ebay links don't work anymore and I wasn't able to find the same compressor wheel size as the one he used. Found this one from cashed out cars on youtube which he got to hit max boost around 4000 rpm. Was wondering if anyone knows the link to the same turbo that Braineck used since the compressor size was still smaller on his. Preferably would want one that already has the vband housing and the internal wastegate already set up like Brainecks.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/203044592254?

oreo

The turbo you linked to the EBAY ad is a T04E-50 trim. If you convert this to the generic current Garrett number nomenclature, it gives you a GT3276, but sleeve bearing.
So this will not spool very well at all as it is really large. Hopefully someone can advise what he was using.

Ted75zcar

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T3 Super 60 IIRC, but a search of the forum would confirm.

Daav

Thank you, looked into it and it looks like it spoils pretty fast and that’s the one.

Daav

even though it may not spool the best it is a lot better than what I have and it’s not super laggy either for a t3 turbo, just not the fastest