I was wondering if anyone has every tried or thought about doing this but a friend of mine gave me his stock turbo of off his wrx and was having a couple of ideas if maybe it would fit my tC? if anyone can help me out with this as what I would have to do to make it work let me know I am really hoping this could work, thanks!

 

Their stock turbos are very small, and it wouldnt even be worth it in my mind to fab up a manifold for it to fit our car. The down pipe is especially difficult to reproduce because of the bellmouth. Jut get a 18g or gt28 and use proven parts that work on our car. but hey, if you want a challenge, more power to you.

 

It would work. Not efficiently, but it would work.

 

it would make a difference if you could get it to fit. they are small turbos though, but the boost the engine output from like what? 175 bhp to what year wrx is it? on the legacy the engine makes 250 bhp, but i don't know if that is the same turbo.

but if you look for a manifold and downpipe, you would need parts that fit IHI turbos.

 

Anything will work with the right tools an parts and money!! But it will be a waste of time. Those turbos are smaller then a 16g lol. I think

 

They're a lot smaller than 16g's lol.



So tiny lol.

 

thanks for all the input, I would want to make it work but maybe just to say that i did it haha. eventually I will boost but just gotta wait, car just got painted

 

you can always sell it on ebay to raise money for a tc turbokit. there gotta be WRX owners with a blown turbo who needs a cheap replacement.

 

And if its a newer WRX that you got it off of, it is a bigger turbo, so its an upgrade to all the pre 08 model wrx's.

 

It's still too small for a tC lol.

 

it is off a 2007, no love for the paint??

 

it looks.... green.

jk. it does look good though.

 

looks very good... im not a green guy at all but i think you did the right darkness of it so i approve A++

 

Yea defintely a small turbo. Now if we were on a honda forum id be like heck ya go for it. A lil frankenstien D16-17 and your golden! But thats future plans for me in a few years. Its gonna be my super Auto-x and drag mobile.

 

u probably have a stock td04 turbo.. the legacy and older sti came with a vf39 which is a great turbo.. either way.. ud probably be better off with something else.. i sold a td04 for 100 bucks soo u can do that.. i sold a vf39 for just around 300..

 

your the second tc i have seen with that same color combo. should have choosen another color but hey if you like it who cares! paint job looks good.

 

i like the paint

 

x2 on liking the paint

 

it will fit but you will need to boost higher prolly 14psi and put like 250bhp like factory subbies.. factory power, yucks lol but yeah save for a bigger and better setup. That turbo is like smaller than your fist lol.. oh nice paint

 

sorry, i thought we were talking about a turbo, didn't wanna thread jack and start going OMG GTFO THAT PAINT JOB IS OFF THE HOOK YO!