Maf g/s Readings

[seangti]

There's not much useful info available on them. A few people start saying they are sufficient for their application, then others chime in saying it's an ebay turbo and must be crap. They come with a 12month warranty, the billet ones with 24 months, so that'll do me for some confidence in the thing. Re the hybrid turbo, Gavin and I ran the same turbo's, his was more linear than my hybrid. No idea why, but how his is, that's a nice blend across the power range for a daily. My FTG has the larger compressor wheel, for a daily car I'd probably go the standard sized wheel as it can be a little laggy, more like a WRX, waiting for revs for it to go. But for that I have a stronger upper rev range holding boost flat to redline. On my daily polo, that'll peak boost at 16psi, but is 7psi at 6000rpm.

Louis also has the same FTG on his car, he drives his daily so would be interesting in his opinion. Mine only gets driven once a week, if that.

[louis19]

There's not much useful info available on them. A few people start saying they are sufficient for their application, then others chime in saying it's an ebay turbo and must be crap. They come with a 12month warranty, the billet ones with 24 months, so that'll do me for some confidence in the thing. Re the hybrid turbo, Gavin and I ran the same turbo's, his was more linear than my hybrid. No idea why, but how his is, that's a nice blend across the power range for a daily. My FTG has the larger compressor wheel, for a daily car I'd probably go the standard sized wheel as it can be a little laggy, more like a WRX, waiting for revs for it to go. But for that I have a stronger upper rev range holding boost flat to redline. On my daily polo, that'll peak boost at 16psi, but is 7psi at 6000rpm.

Louis also has the same FTG on his car, he drives his daily so would be interesting in his opinion. Mine only gets driven once a week, if that.

As Sean said, there's not a great deal of information surrounding the FTG turbos, good or bad. In saying that I've been very happy so far and permitting it lasts and continues to perform as good as it is currently, it's hard to find another turbo that will give you the same performance for $ spent.

As a daily, I find the turbo very good. It comes down to what you get used to though as well. I think it's worth the sacrifice of spooling later, it means a more comfortable drive around town changing under 3000rpm, and much stronger mid and top end power. I had the same issue with the stock turbo, if anything I thought it spooled to much to early, which I had traction issues with, then when you want the boost to hold it would die off early.

I can see how people like Sean, with having both cars to drive back to back, could feel that the FTG upsized wheel feels laggy, but for track work it's very rare you would see under 3000rpm at any time and for daily driving the car has more then enough torque before the turbo spools to be able to slide into traffic comfortablely anyways. Like I said, it's what you get used to. I probably only don't find it laggy partially due to the fact I don't have a polo with a stock turbo to compare after driving with the FTG