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Mattlad

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9th Aug, 2007 at 07:28:22pm

I am considering building a mini turbo engine, I dont no anything about turbo's!! Ive read a few peoples posts about T3, T25 and T2 turbos whats the difference? Is the standard turbo on a metro turbo a T3, and is that turbo the same as say a RS Turbo, T3 turbo? or are they different sizes, will they fit?

Sorry If I appear stupid, only ever built N/A mini engines

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9th Aug, 2007 at 07:33:40pm

Read through the beginners section of the forum, and use the search function at the top of the page to find your answers.

All of the information is there, you just need to read it and take it all in.

If you have any more questions after you've had a good read, then I'm sure we'll be happy to help!


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9th Aug, 2007 at 08:18:44pm

Also - check out www.turbo-mini.co.uk
It is a well-laid out site that gives a good taster of everything with pics.

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10th Aug, 2007 at 01:31:13pm

On 9th of Aug, 2007 at 07:28pm Brmatt said:
I am considering building a mini turbo engine, I dont no anything about turbo's!! Ive read a few peoples posts about T3, T25 and T2 turbos whats the difference? Is the standard turbo on a metro turbo a T3, and is that turbo the same as say a RS Turbo, T3 turbo? or are they different sizes, will they fit?

Sorry If I appear stupid, only ever built N/A mini engines


The Metro Turbo had a T3 as standard but this is not the same asthe T3 fitted to the RSTs. The T3 is a family of turbos and different ones have different ARs, what works on one engine many not work on another. All thought with a bit of effort pretty much anything will fit.

The T2 is some what smaller that the T3 and some say it's better suited to the A Series, for a long time the T3 was consider the way to go if you wanted big power and the T2 was less power but more drivable (but Nic & Iain have proven this wrong) the T25 is somewhere in between the two in size. Again like the T3 the T2 & the T25 are famillies of turbos and different ARs are avalible.

Finally there is the GT15, GT17 & GT20 which are later generation turbos which tend to be more efficent & less laggy.

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