Better Street Turbo?????????

[highboost]

Which of these turbos would be best for the street??
ta54 ot pt53 ???????
and why??? or advice on a even better turbo for a mid-low 11street car????

thanks keith

[Taffy]

If you have approx 3K stall, go for the PT54 (TE61). Let me know if you are interested in the turbo.

[silverbullet]

I put on a pt52 and couldn't build any boost with the stock converter. Before going to a bigger street turbo you had better be looking for at least a 3200 stall converter. Or better yet 3400-3500 or you will be VERY disappointed in it not building boost for the first couple hundred feet. Let me emphasize that you must go to a higher stall converter with the bigger turbos.

As for a 53 vs. a 54, bigger is always better. I went to the 52 thinking that would be it, but as JayC told me you will always want to go faster and a bigger turbo is part of the equation. Now i have a pt72.

[Slow91z]

I put on a pt52 and couldn't build any boost with the stock converter.

All I can say about that you much have been rich in the spool up phase of your tune.

I built 10-15 PSI with a PT-53 with a stock converter, and I now have a 61 with a restalled D5 that stalls 2700 RPM@15 PSI...It's to tight on the street and it takes a bit to build boost at the track, but it works.

[slowsix]

Why limit yourself to those two turbos? If you have a stock stall go with a te-44/ta-49, you won't be disappointed. A few guys here locally have had problems with there pt-52-54s, but others seem to have better luck..

[Taffy]

A good TA49/TE44 would be a really nice turbo for the street and stock stall. If you are closer to 2800 stall, the TE/A60 is a nice little street turbo. I have a few customers using the TE/A 61 with 3K stall and they love it. Chips vary among customers, but that combo seems to work very well.

[highboost]

i have a 3k stall to go back in the car.
by the way can anybody help me identfy a turbo by the cast #'s on the housings?????

thankskeith

[Taffy]

If you really want to know what turbo you have, you need to take the compressor housing off and measure the compressor wheel.

On the exhaust housing, there should be a few digits stamped on the mating sureface to the downpipe.