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Turbo upgrade

Postby polyarkos » Fri Aug 11, 2017 11:59 am

Hi All,

I've decided to go for a turbo upgrade. What supporting mods do I need on top of increase fueling, 3" exhaust, catch can, and an upgraded clutch? I'm aiming for a 50% increase in torque - roughly 400Nm.

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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby tealz83 » Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:42 pm

Ring up Steve Murch about the turbo upgrade.
Once you sort that then you can get the dump pipe made, 3" is ideal.
2 3/4" or a full 3" exhaust system will be plenty.
A good air filter setup is often over looked and missed. Its not hard to sort a nice flowing setup to help the complete system breath.
Do you run an intercooler? If not then get one.
An egt gauge in the exhaust manifold will help when you turn up the fuel.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby polyarkos » Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:54 pm

I've got egt and boost gauges installed along with a full 3" exhaust and had the injectors and pump reconditioned.

What do you think make a good airfilter set-up? The element or the housing and piping?
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby polyarkos » Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:55 pm

I'm reading good things about mambatek turbo. They have a +45% torque upgrade for the 4jg2
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby mudslinger » Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:21 pm

jarred at turbo care i chch did my turbo for my 4jb1 works a treat moves a lot more air than standard
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby Dinger95 » Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:30 am

polyarkos wrote:I'm reading good things about mambatek turbo. They have a +45% torque upgrade for the 4jg2

Any part number, etc. for the mambatek turbo I didn't see anything listed on their site ...
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby polyarkos » Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:31 am

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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby awhitbread » Wed Aug 16, 2017 1:42 pm

I have ordered one of these mamba td04hl-15t turbos for my tf rodeo. The compressor map for them looks good for an easy 200hp if you really wanted to turn the fuel up. I have a large fmic already and have moved the battery so the turbo sucks cold air straight from that side through a k&n filter inside an enclosure that has cold air ducted to it. The stock setup was bad, dragging the air through a long intake path plus over the motor to heat it up. I don't yet have an exhaust though so don't expect any max hp figures from me yet until I make something up at the end of the year.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby Dinger95 » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:55 am

polyarkos wrote:Its under "4jg2t"


Thanks, looks like I searched for "4jg2", "4jg2tc", "4jg2-tc" and "4jg2-t" before giving up ... which don't really find anything useful.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby polyarkos » Thu Aug 17, 2017 6:27 am

awhitbread wrote:I have ordered one of these mamba td04hl-15t turbos for my tf rodeo. The compressor map for them looks good for an easy 200hp if you really wanted to turn the fuel up. I have a large fmic already and have moved the battery so the turbo sucks cold air straight from that side through a k&n filter inside an enclosure that has cold air ducted to it. The stock setup was bad, dragging the air through a long intake path plus over the motor to heat it up. I don't yet have an exhaust though so don't expect any max hp figures from me yet until I make something up at the end of the year.


I'm looking forward to any feedback you have.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby stardog » Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:28 pm

Should be interesting if they actually do give you more torque cheaper than a IHI turbo to buy I looked at the mambo turbo ages ago but didn't buy 1 short on funds so I bought a cheap turbo seems to work for now full boost im getting 15psi.
If it gives any problems might look at 1 of the mambos for the old wizard .
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby Davidf » Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:20 pm

I put a holset he221turbo on my 4jgt2 it's similar to the turbo you all are talking about best upgrade I've done it hits 26 psi fast I would say every bit of a 45 percent increase in torque.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby rabidrabbit001 » Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:00 am

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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby Swatty » Thu Aug 31, 2017 9:57 am

stardog wrote:Should be interesting if they actually do give you more torque cheaper than a IHI turbo to buy I looked at the mambo turbo ages ago but didn't buy 1 short on funds so I bought a cheap turbo seems to work for now full boost im getting 15psi.
If it gives any problems might look at 1 of the mambos for the old wizard .


What cheap turbo did you buy Stardog as I have heard a lot of mixed reviews?
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby stardog » Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:01 pm

I bought it on eBay cost me $245-00 delivered from a mob in Sydney I will see if I can find the invoice it is still working fine so far no problems holds boost and spools up pretty good.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby Swatty » Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:36 pm

stardog wrote:I bought it on eBay cost me $245-00 delivered from a mob in Sydney I will see if I can find the invoice it is still working fine so far no problems holds boost and spools up pretty good.


That would be mint. I heard a lot of hit and miss things with the online ones and my turbo makes a hella noise so have thought about replacing it
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby stardog » Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:11 pm

Here is the link where I got mine from make sure which turbo you have a none intercooled or intercooled one as they are different set up.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RHB52-VI95-R ... Ciid%253A1
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby awhitbread » Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:59 am

Well I fitted the TD04hl-15t from Mamba, goes pretty good. Have the 1.5 bar spring tension in the wastegate actuator, turned the fuel up another 1/4 turn. No black smoke unless flat to the boards, was lucky enough to have a drag this morning against a landcruiser duel cab ute v8, it was neck and neck nothing in it. I'm guessing when I finally fit a 2.5" exhaust I should get the last bit of power out of it as it is probably a little restricted now.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby Earwig » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:40 pm

Awhitbread have you got a picture of your intake? I was going to do this to my wizard to fit a water2air ic and put the battery where the airbox is.
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Re: Turbo upgrade

Postby polyarkos » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:15 pm

awhitbread wrote:Well I fitted the TD04hl-15t from Mamba, goes pretty good. Have the 1.5 bar spring tension in the wastegate actuator, turned the fuel up another 1/4 turn. No black smoke unless flat to the boards, was lucky enough to have a drag this morning against a landcruiser duel cab ute v8, it was neck and neck nothing in it. I'm guessing when I finally fit a 2.5" exhaust I should get the last bit of power out of it as it is probably a little restricted now.


What blade set-up did you go with? There are 3 versions of the 15T +45% torque listed
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