Ridgey

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Can anyone recommend a cost effiective place to get a new compressor wheel fitted to T3 (already stripped), and balancing.

Thanks in advance

Graceland

Dave, if you are fitting a new turbine/shaft at the same time, then you don't need to balance them seperately as they are component balanced thesedays

Ridgey

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Any recommendation where to get these parts Gracey ?

GUZZLER

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the core will still need to be balanced when its built though,, most places used to charge for bearings & seals at £200 odd, call around, probably about £30-50 for the balance then the compwheel.
have you fittd new bearing as they can be hard to balance on old ones.

Graceland

Danny at Turbospares in Blackpool - he was doing a bargain kit for £150 plus delivery which was a brand new bearing core housing, bearings, seals, all the other fiddley little bits and a brand new turbine shaft/wheel unit. Only thing you'll need to add is a compressor wheel of your spec and you have a brand new unit when using your existing compressor cover and exhaust housing

Graceland

Not true at all, if the shaft/wheel and compressor wheel are component balanced then the core does not need to be balanced.

We used to balance components and then assemble them without balancing the core when I worked at Holset

Ridgey

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I'll give them a bell.
cheers

GUZZLER

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thats ok on big turbos but not the case on most car turbos, thats why they have grind marks on the nose nut where there balanced.

Graceland

Times have changed a lot with turbo technology and production methods - nearly all turbo's are component balanced thesedays

GUZZLER

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the parts are component balanced but all the modern garrett & KKK stuff i have seen is still balanced as a core, when you build a core & put it on the vsr machine, some are not far out but still need a grind or 2 to get them within tolerance.