X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from www.whiteaspen.com ([66.180.170.33] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 1022090 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:31:22 -0500 Received-SPF: neutral receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.180.170.33; envelope-from=sladerj@bellsouth.net Received: from [10.101.1.6] (unknown [10.101.1.6]) by www.whiteaspen.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B2FB8016 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:30:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4408D210.6040302@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:32:32 -0500 From: John Slade User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] T04 Turbo References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Downing wrote: > John; I see that Performance Express in Phoenix has the Garrett T04 > listed for $640.00, is this the one you are using? Not that expensive > to add a little more oomph. JohnD John, There's a lot more to defining a T04 turbo than just the T04. There are many choices of compressor trim, aspect ratio, bearing type etc. Mines a T04-P50 with 0.96 AR wet housing and a big shaft bearing. The cheaper and discounted ones you see on Ebay tend to be the more common setups for cars and not at all what we need for aviation. Also, I've heard that some of the ebay ones are poor quality knock offs. My turbo was only $745 from agpturbo.com who are the distributors for Turbonetics, so $640 for the turbo isnt really that cheap. When you add in the flanges, wastegate, boost controller and ceramic coating the total cost comes to about $1450. Regards, John