16g compressor housing on a 14b REVIEW

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Originally Posted by 4g63tcrazy

If you read my posts above I plan to put it back on. But why not be the ginnie pig and do a review for the people who are wondering?

Fo sho. Now put the 14b cover back on until you get a 20G. A TD05 would prolly be a really nice combo for your car.

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I can put the 16g wheel on and the 18g housing, and looks like the 14b in the first picture, but bigger and newer wheel. Made me mad when i first ordered the wheel thinking they screwed me out and sent the wrong wheel. I took it into work along with the comp housing. Found out the damn thing was an 18g, i went from mad... to somewhat happy and perplexed. I was planning on a 16g/14b stealth, now i'd have to go with a 16g/18g stealth, and shortly after a new motor.

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I will be running the stock turbo for quite awhile. My choices were.. Newer bigger turbo and no ecmlink or ecmlink and stock turbo. Noone had a decent sized turbo for sale so I just ended up getting ecmlink and the stock turbo.

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so why not just make that 16g out of the wheel you have, it will be better then the 14b and super cheap to balance

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Caaaaaaauuuuuuusee I had one day to put the car together. I came home from IL with a ride from my roommate so I could put the 14b onto my car and have a car to drive back to IL. I realise what my options are and I was perfectly fine with running the 14b. I never once said I wish I still had the 16g. Then I decided, hey why not try swapping the compressor housing too while I'm at it and do a review about it. So that is what I did.

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Well 20psi is the max limit with this housing on it. I cranked the boost controller and it didn't change it any. After watching the boost gauge more it hits full spool at more like 4300-4500rpm not 4700. Here is a shitty pull vid that my friend took with my phone. Hopefully I'll actually get a decent one soon!

In the video you actually get a pretty good view of the tach. You can watch it to get an idea of when the turbo spools. I sure wish I had a turbo this laggy.. I get soo much better traction!

10mph-70ish mph

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W/e you did what you had to to get the car back on the road, nothing aweful with that.I say put a 14b cover back on there and rock it untill you can afford a 20g or something.

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^^^ That's the plan!