China turbo vs China turbo, both are junk.

Saw a bunch of China turbos fail 5 years ago, one cracked the compressor housing at 14psi and fell to the ground. One failed at start up, had a plastic pipe around the shaft instead of bearings... The other ones blew cause they weren´t balanced and the shafts broke. BUT, this is 5 years ago, I bet they are better now.

We have a company called Turbo Bandit over here and they use China turbos as base and change to better bearings/balance, people use them and like them, Also an option but will probably end up at Garrett cost in the end.

The Precisions I´ve used all failed fast, bearing problems and smoke. Will never buy one again.

 

I had an ebay 16g on my talon for over 50k miles. sold it.. and it lasted another 10k miles on a civic.

my friend has an ebay 20g turbo on his talon now for a bit and was running around on 30psi and the cover ended up blowing off. but he ordered another one because he was so happy with it Lol.

i think the most important thing on these turbos (as with any turbo) is oil restriction. dsms and evo's dont have a lot of oil pressure flowing from the stock location so they work well. on a honda you probably just need a small restrictor


i had a precision SC61 and it was on my car for 300 miles, i sold it to my friend when i parted out my car and it only lasted about 500 miles before the wheel decided to eat itself. it was also boost leaking bad from the factory and had to have the compressor cover resealed.


My GT35R has been on my car for 6 years now.

 

Wow that is scary

 

I love this thread.

 

I don't..... just bought a brand new pte 6266 jb. Haven't mounted it yet.

 

"Supposedly" The BB units see less failures, the JB units.....not so much.

 

Yea it makes me upset as well.

 

BW. oil cooled big ole bastard. 3 ish years, 15k ish miles, ZERO problems besides that god damn rusty bolt eyesore.

 

precision was good when they partnered with garrett when they started doing theyre own thing thats when they went down hill

 

as with anything you will hear about it a lot more on the internet because probably 30-40% of ppl on a forum is most likely using a precision turbo. if you went on a 335 forum you would swear they were the most god awful car in the world because ppl only tell you when they have a problem

that being said i still think they are junk. i mostly only see shops using precision turbos because they have for some reason partnered with them and probably get them for free. it seems like now everyone has been switching over to a garrett based turbo or BW, and there is probably a good reason. I have seen nothing that would make me WANT to run a precision turbo vs a garrett or BW, and no one really states why they run them..

BW is proven to make the same and in some cases produce a better curve than comparable garrett and precision units. and usually at 500-$800 less. plus they are rebuildable.

nothing really "impresses" me about the garrett line until it gets upgraded by FP to one of their HTA units. but i don't really think it would benefit most people here unless you were running 30+ PSI on a 35r or larger turbo. You can run a T3 housing so you're not sacrificing spool and still make 100hp more than standard BB garrett units. this is running with higher pressure though.

I have nothing to say that is positive about the precision lineup that you cannot get from BW for half the price, or from garrett with actual dependability. the only thing that is "good" about precision is that because they suck so much they can rebuild them for you whether its BB or JB

precisions vband stuff is a different size so it makes switching turbos a little harder.