Quote Originally Posted by josh green
Ball bearing turbo's are nice but are not worth the money for drag racing IMO. Hell borg warner's extended tip turbos are supposed to be better than ball bearing ones on all aspects. I personally would rather wait 300rpm later for a $1k difference. Ball bearing turbos have a lot of hype, daniels 630whp ls build actually spooled the same or around 100rpms later than spoolins last setup. Granted that it made a little more mid range, but the rpm at which it just took off was around the same or a little later. Just as Chris Rado has stated, ball bearing turbos are for slow shifting diesel trucks.

I've been looking into those BorgWarner extended tip turbos. Chris Anderson and whole AAP crew(3 race cars and 2 customer cars) have switched and all have seen dramatic decrease in there spool up times and some increase in top end hp and torque.

Everytime I go buy there Chris and Yamil tell me I should try it out. Louis Curujos(Paradise Racing Celica) was at AAP for a week switching from AEM to Motec on his race car and he swears up and down that the BorgWarner extended tip turbos are the new age of turbo performance w/o ball bearing center sections. I've been on the bulleyepower.com website and looked at graphs and all that but I really haven't seen any graphs of how that turbo will do on a 4 cylinder honda. They have graphs of other 4 cylinders(srt-4 neon, DSMs, and I think a celica).

If I had money to trial and error stuff then I'd love to be the 1st to try out a BorgWarner turbo on a TurboStreet Honda but for now w/ me being poor I'll let other people w/ deeper pockets figure out what works and what doesn't.