[s-cars] Sharp turn toward S-car info ahead! Warning!

[Eric Phillips]

Considering the overall reliability of the B5, that's a "out of the
frying pan into the fire" scenario.

To get more go out of a B5 is not cheap, easy or reliable.

You could put in several GT2871s for the cost of what a B5 would cost
just to set up the first time.

This is the primary reason for me sticking with C4 chassis cars.

On 4/29/07, calvinlc at earthlink.net <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Has anybody figured out how to fix the "reliability" problems some have been
> seeing with the ball bearing turbos?  It would seem to me that Garrett would
> not want these things to continue to drive people away from their product.
> If I recall right I have heard of two people having problems with the 2871
> or 3071.  Are there lots of others?  On the other hand, is there anybody who
> can vouch for the BB turbos going over 50k?
>
> This area of discussion is very important to me because it may ultimately be
> this that decides whether I keep my UrS or not.  I want more power than the
> K-24 offers but I don't want a higher boost threshold, not even by 300
> rpm...only solution I know of are the BB turbos, specifically 2871 in this
> case,  (or a 2.5L but that's not in the financial plan at this point).
> However, if the BB turbos aren't reliable then I am probably going to have
> to take the plunge and go with a B5 which would suck to give up all the
> things that are better about this car......*sigh*
>
> --Calvin