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Hey guys

Pretty sure my turbos had it, it's making a horrible noise (still working properly tho)
I'm tossing up weather to put a gturbo stage 2 on as I've been told it will work fine without a chip or computer and will give me the provision in the future if I want to tune it.
Will it make more power than the standard turbo, if so how much?
Will there be more or less lag? Or are there any issues it may cause in the future like leaning out or over boosting?

Cheers

The Stage 2 is a fantastic replacement option for the factory turbo - it won't overboost or change fueling at all on the factory tune but might come on boost slightly earlier (in my experience it does but it's slight)

No downsides to it at all, it even looks stock

Sweet, I think this is the path I'll go

I just put a stage 2 on with no tune. Haven't had any problems or noticed any power gains but it spools a lot quicker than the factory one. You can get huge power gains with the right upgrades and a good tuner. I have put a front mount intercooler, 3 inch exhaust and have 15% bigger injecters to go in. I've have been told once tuned will have over 200 rear wheel hose power and 40%+ torque gain so yes they can make great power.

How much did yous pay for the stage 2 gturbo?

deanv1144 wrote:I just put a stage 2 on with no tune. Haven't had any problems or noticed any power gains but it spools a lot quicker than the factory one. You can get huge power gains with the right upgrades and a good tuner. I have put a front mount intercooler, 3 inch exhaust and have 15% bigger injecters to go in. I've have been told once tuned will have over 200 rear wheel hose power and 40%+ torque gain so yes they can make great power.

15% injectors and stage 2 turbo is my next big upgrade. tho I already have plenty of go with the fmic and Monster Max

bahaha, thats the spirit.

Dano, keep an eye on our BDG section in the sponsors page. I have a heap of testing to do before hand with 3 seperate chips, but we will be doing exactly what you''re suggesting in about 2 weeks, but i'm not sure your's will hold out.

If need be, we have a stg 2 on shelf if you need a fast solution. was meant for our lux, but we wont be ready for a few weeks, so i can replace it in that time.

deanv1144 wrote:I just put a stage 2 on with no tune. Haven't had any problems or noticed any power gains but it spools a lot quicker than the factory one. You can get huge power gains with the right upgrades and a good tuner. I have put a front mount intercooler, 3 inch exhaust and have 15% bigger injecters to go in. I've have been told once tuned will have over 200 rear wheel hose power and 40%+ torque gain so yes they can make great power.

Hey mate,
With the increase in power have you noticed any change in fuel economy? Is it chewing through it? How many km to a tank you getting?

Haven't got any power gains yet as it hasn't been tuned. From what I've been told should save on fuel. At the min it takes on average 100L to fill and i get 800km. So any fuel saving i can get, I'm all for it..

BDG wrote:bahaha, thats the spirit.

Dano, keep an eye on our BDG section in the sponsors page. I have a heap of testing to do before hand with 3 seperate chips, but we will be doing exactly what you''re suggesting in about 2 weeks, but i'm not sure your's will hold out.

If need be, we have a stg 2 on shelf if you need a fast solution. was meant for our lux, but we wont be ready for a few weeks, so i can replace it in that time.

Any news on the Turbo, hows it going, hows the fuel economy doing and the power ???

Dano, GCG is another option.



The Roo.

Hey guy, I ended up going a second hand unit.
So far its going well, if that decides to cark it ill go something stronger!

Roo, who are GCG? I'm going to do a turbo in the future, and like the idea of plenty of options..

Another Gturbo happy customer
207HP at the wheels with 562Nm of torque

Gcg turbo worse than stock, g turbo was far better by a long way

How are everyones engines holding up since they modded them ? I havnt been on here for a couple of years have they all blown up or has eveyone just gone to v8 cruisers ?

ALFY wrote:How are everyones engines holding up since they modded them ? I havnt been on here for a couple of years have they all blown up or has eveyone just gone to v8 cruisers ?

Im with you Alfy. Been a while since ive touched the lux. Was thinking of going Gturbo, Performance Diesel Inter-cooler upgrade and possibly the Hks Fcon Id ecu piggy back. But wanted to know how everyone else went with their upgrades

James_Austgen wrote:

ALFY wrote:How are everyones engines holding up since they modded them ? I havnt been on here for a couple of years have they all blown up or has eveyone just gone to v8 cruisers ?

Im with you Alfy. Been a while since ive touched the lux. Was thinking of going Gturbo, Performance Diesel Inter-cooler upgrade and possibly the Hks Fcon Id ecu piggy back. But wanted to know how everyone else went with their upgrades

Give UFI I call in regards to the turbo . Heard more good things about them than Gturbo

Ive been running a gturbo now for 4 years, have only done about 50,000kms on it though. I did have a couple of issues initially but they were sorted without too much drama. When i installed turbo at 110,000 kms i also fitted set of baileys injectors and 1KD front mount intercooler. I also fitted NPC clutch. I specified HKS FCONid with the turbo package but got talked into a plug and play setup. It caused issues and i promptly removed and fitted HKS myself and that was end of limp issues. The setup definately makes power. Ive been looking at getting a new 4WD but cant really justify it. This thing does everyting it needs to and I really want to see how long they last putting out 200 hp haha. I was just interested to see how the other guys went with similar setups over the last few years. Cheers.