I was thinking about trying to get some ceramic ball bearings made to the same dimensions of a standard floating T3 bearings. I've found a couple places to make them. All look pretty good. I'll be contacting SKF Services about it this week. If anyone wants to jump on the boat and help, be my guest.



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Hmm, interesting. You know if anyone somewhere else has pulled this off? If it was just the bearing, I wouldn't think ball-bearing turbos would be so expensive...You sure there's not something else about the center section that is different?


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the compressor wheels are different as well. i'd stick to buying a garrett GT series turbo, and having the satisfaction of knowing it will work properly.




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They don't have different compressor wheels....... The fins are exactly the same assuming you get a wheel with the same exducer and mayor diameters. There is usually a slight difference in the BACK of the compressor wheel simply because DBB turbos don't NEED to have a thrust collar or thrust bearing. They run with a lower oil pressure too. I'm trying to have ball bearings made and keep the trust collar. There isn't a REAL reason to faind a wa to replace the thrust bearing and collar. I'm sure there is some way to turn that into a deep groove ball bearing seign too though.

But yes, a couple people have pulled this off. All they do is have their center sections machined. They increase the bore and drop stock ball bearings in. Doing a conversion this way is expensive just because of the machine work involved. You also keep the standard thrust collar and bearing... and the same compressor wheel.

Now if I can find a place to make me ball bearings for $10 a piece..... I'd buy 10 and try them out. If it works, I'd load all the other T3 turbos I have sitting around with ball bearings and play around a bit to see how everything compairs.



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