Been thinking about 16g for the past couple of years, just been to preoccupied to pull the trigger, plus the new clutching i would eventually need shortly after has also held me back. Money ,money ,money. That's why being able to upgrade it myself has always been tempting.

 

Iv got ya beat there! I'm tiptronic! My tranny will go the first time I put the pedal to the floor with 20g

 

Ouch, ya I love my stick.

 

best i can tell the 18 and 20G compressor wheel has 6 fins and exhaust wheel has 12 fins. thats all i have uncoVered so far. i thought was only compressor wheel thats changed....i guess its both....i bet ya a $1 blouch is buying these from china!! ill keep digging

 

Wouldn't doubt it, what doesn't come from china these days.
On the 16's whether there billet or not, they seem like there either six or seven. Not sure if they change the hot side, nobody seems to take a pic of that.

 

The compressor wheels are changed and the compressor housing machined to suit

The turbine wheels are sometimes left alone, or sometimes slightly reshaped/lightened
The turbine wheels don't get changed at all

 

Are you saying a 16g wheel won't fit in a k16 housing without machining it? Or an 18g?

 

neither will fit without machining

 

Are you sure about that? I'm not changing wheel size only blade pitch and design when moving from a 16 to a 16g. At least this is what I have been led to believe. Could me mistaken though, would like to hear from someone who has done this or has owned a set of 16 g's as there bill should state what work was done.

 

Various sources including EPL advocate using the water lines to save turbo charger life through cooling. The evoms GT660 kit with Tial turbos has them as optional but EPL requires they be installed with all of their Tial turbo kits. What type of cooling system problems can be caused by using water lines? Is it because of excess coolant volume needing to circulate or running hotter in general or neither? Are the stock K16 or K24 turbos cooled with water lines or just oil?

 

Earl is correct, the 16g wheels are larger than the K16 wheels

The fact that they both have 16 in the name is pure coincidence

K16 is Borg Warner
16g is Mitsubishi

If you swap the wheels, you need to maching the housing, and I 'think' the back plate too

The kid in the video didn't have to change his back plate as the 16g, 18g, 20g, wheels all have the same compressor exducer sizing

 

It's funny that the same so-called tuner also spent 2+ months working on a pair of K24 hybrids of mine, which he ultimately ended up stealing from me, because I sent them back to him to be refurbished and I never got them back.
Building a pair of turbos for a professional, including machining and balancing takes no longer than a day. Unfortunately, some people who'd like to think that they're pros (and who operate out of their living room) make loads of others believe that they're just as good as real businesses with 10 mechanics and 8 lifts, except that they're not, and when something goes wrong, they don't have anything to back themselves up financially either.

YMMV of course.

 

Care to tell us who this was??
Feel free to PM me if you can't post it on the forum

THanks

 

my advise to you is to talke to markisty .. he has the key of turbos !!!

this guy know well about these staff , i will send my turbos (gt30) to him one day

 

While I do expect that some of the more respected turners could rebuild most turbos, I bet most send them to blouch. And there is nothing wrong with that. I'm just do it itself type! How would I ever learn to do odd things like rebuild a turbo if I didn't try and succeed or try fail and try again. Problem is nobody well sell the billet wheel.