Anyone has experience with upgraded KKK k27 turbos?

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Post by ecartoys »

T_C_D wrote: The only reason I am pushing this thread is because to this point you only have sales jargon and no data.
Sales jargon??? I only posted here because my name was mentioned here. I did not start the post nor advertise my turbo.

When I get the chance to dyno my car again I will make sure I get one that can log boost and afr but I am doing it for myself and definitely not because of your urging.

I don't need to prove to you what my turbo does because I did it for my own cars and found it better than the 60 trim wheel. You can accept my dyno result and my boost report from 745i site or you can continue to complain about how bad your 60 trim K27 is and offer nothing else. I am happy with just helping those who wants to try something else find what they are looking for.
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Post by T_C_D »

ecartoys wrote:[You can accept my dyno result and my boost report from 745i site or you can continue to complain about how bad your 60 trim K27 is and offer nothing else.
What are you talking abt? I have never even used the 60 trim/k27 setup on my personal cars. I manufacture my own manifolds, remember?
We use a larger and lighter wheel that flows 60lb/min and effectively move the power curve 1200RPM earlier. There is also no turbo lag on a properly exhausted setup. Our housing is machined extensively inside and out to properly flow the larger wheel for fast spool.
This is like selling snake oil when you do not provide proper data.



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How has the power curve shifted 1200rpm? Looks identical to 3700rpm and then looks like your improved turbo spools about 300rpm sooner than the stock turbo.

FYI, David, I have been sending customers your way for several years for chips. Even as recently as last fall a current customer of mine purchased a solder in chip from you on my urging.

I want to support your business but cannot stomach unsubstantiated claims that ultimately diminish the value of a product I sell.

Produce something better and I will support it!
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T_C_D wrote: What are you talking abt? I have never even used the 60 trim/k27 setup on my personal cars. I manufacture my own manifolds, remember?
We use a larger and lighter wheel that flows 60lb/min and effectively move the power curve 1200RPM earlier. There is also no turbo lag on a properly exhausted setup. Our housing is machined extensively inside and out to properly flow the larger wheel for fast spool.
This is like selling snake oil when you do not provide proper data.


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How has the power curve shifted 1200rpm? Looks identical to 3700rpm and then looks like your improved turbo spools about 300rpm sooner than the stock turbo.

My point exactly. Never used the setup is what you said.

If what I am doing is selling snake oil then you would have sold way more snake oil than me. I am not going to argue with you to see who can piss farther as that is not constructive. Anyone who is on this board long enough can make their own conclusion. I only started the business to make products for my OWN cars that I actually test and drive everyday.

As for my dyno, here's a pic of the stock factory curve showing M106 enginge with stock K27 starting to peak HP at 4700RPM.
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Not an apple to apple comparison because you are running more than twice the boost but here's YOUR dyno of 745i with 4.10 LSD running 13PSI showing peaking at 4750RPM. For recap my dyno above in red is 745i with 3.91 LSD running 6PSI.
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I am done with your insecure ranting. I thanked you for your referral(s) even though none mentioned you and I will continue to send RHD people your way but this has to stop. If you have never done what you required of others please think before you make a big fuss.

Thanks.
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Post by T_C_D »

David,

You are missing the point.

You said this in response to a comment about the TCD 60/k27
Just so we are clear on the upgrades, our turbo DOES NOT use a 60 trim wheel. We use a larger and lighter wheel that flows 60lb/min and effectively move the power curve 1200RPM earlier. There is also no turbo lag on a properly exhausted setup. Our housing is machined extensively inside and out to properly flow the larger wheel for fast spool.
You have no scientific data. You don't even have the most basic datalog of boost.

Now, if I just ignore your comments, people will call me and ask me if the turbos have no lag like the one David at ecartoys sells. I receive hundreds of telephone calls that start out "I read this on the internet".

I make no claims beyond what Garrett publishes for the 60 trim.

"Rebuilt k27 featuring Garrett 60 trim compressor wheel. The k27 is extensively modified to accept the 60 trim wheel. This combination will support 480rwhp. "

That is taken directly from my website.

http://www.turbochargingdynamics.com/pr ... _Turbo.php
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Well I knew this would happen...... :popcorn:

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Bang for the buck and instant spool
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turbodan wrote:X
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I can see the pics.
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mooseheadm5 wrote:I can see the pics.
Me too.
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sucks
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really? I see them. :shock:
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Post by browntown »

Fight! No really, I don't understand half of this, but I'm hoping it will make more sense when I stuff a m30 in my e30, then start shopping for turbo.

So if I read any of this correctly, the k27 turbo is crap, but can be modified to make it a moderate performer. Forgive my ignorance, but what's the big desire to use the KKK turbo? Won't other turbos fit even the 745i manifold?

Seriously though, if my business was reporting turbo performance I would bite the bullet and dyno the car before and after the improvement on a good known dyno and post the before and after without loop-d-loops. Then again, turbos are not my business.

Back to your normal scheduled programming.
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Post by Jeremy »

browntown wrote: Won't other turbos fit even the 745i manifold?
Other KKK turbos? Sure. That's a pretty limited pool though, and all of them use old (early to mid-80s) technology. T3 flange is different, so is T4. No fully modern turbo bolts to the 745i manifold directly without modification.

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Post by Scottinva »

I didn't know a lot about the KKK k-27 and realistically still don't. However, it seems odd how many super cars run these, including a Porsche Turbo RS 968 and one of the topgear lap record holders the Gumpert Apollo (which runs 2)
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Post by Gunni »

Don´t be fooled by the naming convention

modern K27´s are quite new technology, well about as new there is. KKK now bought by Borg Warner for the name and technology.
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Post by itsbrokeagain »

Gunni wrote:Don´t be fooled by the naming convention

modern K27´s are quite new technology, well about as new there is. KKK now bought by Borg Warner for the name and technology.
+1

we used to run a K34 (before that an old school K31 :shock: ) on a 911 3.0 twinplugged turbo engine...somewhere around 600 in change on low boost. It spooled up pretty decently, but the built gearbox (short gearing) kinda kept the engine up in the powerband, so the turbo was always ready to go.

It had some massive top end, but we swapped to the K34 (built by Borg Warner, not the old style KKK) and it spooled a whole lot faster than the smaller K31.

The reason we switched? The K31 had a habit of blowing up (eating oil seals and once blowing the compressor apart due to no BOV on a very early build engine), and it was just really expensive to keep having it rebuilt...

The K34, despite its enormous size, was a magnitude in size more reliable than its predecessor. The turbo didnt work as hard, intake temps came down quite a bit, and we never rebuilt it once in nearly 2 and a half years.

My former boss runs an oversize Turbonetics T70 series unit on a 3.8L engine....dont ask me why, I was never a fan of Turbonetics parts...but it never broke down once and hes been running on that turbo for nearly 7 years.
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Post by p 4446 pp »

Hi from Bulgaria. I think that the k27 is an very good turbo i have one on my e28 m20b27 turbo project it was on my e30 but terrible things happen to it :laugh: so now we are changing the engines i have a few clips with the e30 with the k27 this is without the stand alone (megasqurt)
http://vbox7.com/play:60a8e3d3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_psUr-SZ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-EaAMYfL2U
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