IndigoMKII;1916548 said:Actually, I've noticed mine is starting to blow a little bit of smoke as well. It has roughly 3500 miles on it and I've never taken it over 16 psi with little the car warm up before I move it and letting the car idle before I shut it off.
This is why I'm changing out my manifold/exhaust to the t4 manifold from DM and making a t3 adapter to use my HX35 7 blade that I picked up.
As for your question, I do believe you can pick up a SR boss turbo or turbonetics 62-1 turbo. These are bolt on, even with the ct26 downpipe.
Just looked at this again.. and wonder if you had the same problem I had with overfueling at higher RPM's washing the oil off. When I turned the fuel pressure down the blue smoke went away.
I am finding that my top pipe and intake get quite hot now (don't remember it being this warm) but that may be normal just due to their position. I may end up having to do some wrapping in the engine bay to get the temps down a bit. Doesn't seem to affect anything, just seems hotter than what you would desire.
Enraged;1935583 said:if you want to keep the dp and manifold, you need to keep the ct26 exhaust housing. everything else can get changed.
I'd still say the SP bolton is one of the best ones, backed by a good company. Albert seems to make good stock upgrades if you want to spend a bit less.
I think your referring to the SP6262 if I recall. 200-300 bucks is negligible in the overall scheme of things. Looking to get the best performance/stability mix without changing the manifold and DP. I have a call into Turbonetics because I know Reg had licensed the old HKS turbo body from HKS itself a while back for usage on 7M's but afterwards Turbonetics came out with the same turbo (just have to ID it properly).
The CT26 is a fairly hearty turbo, just has some limitations that I am finding. Overall I think Toyota deserves a thumbs up for developing it for what it does and its longevity compared to others I have looked at (especially looking at its age), but at higher revs it just seems to peak too soon.
Was just looking closer at my build specs and I noticed that a 7M is basically a stroker version of the 1jz. If the 7M head was designed a bit better it would have been superior in my mind.. especially considering the torque you get out of our engines. (comparing dyno sheets... lol)