Hello group,
Well you can take this post as my personal preference but I have a few 3B engines and several different turbos and I have even swapped a few to make sure to be fare to all the turbos. Here are the Turbos and my rating of them:
Toyota CT-26 (13B-T setup)
AXT Garret Turbo
Turboglide Garret Turbo (M24)
I can now say with all confidence that I like the Turboglide best of all. The AXT comes in second and the Toyota comes in last place (really close to the AXT though).
The Turboglide one wins mainly because of simple design, low cost, and great performance. The m24 looks pretty small compared to it's competition however it is rated up to a 3.9L so on the 3.4L you get almost zero turbo lag, and it has plenty of power at the top end as well. I like the fact that this is a simple setup and comes with everything you need for the low price of around $2600 AUS. The Turbo does not use the water jackets just the oil lines and that does help keep the engine temp down.
The AXT is the one I started using years ago and although it works pretty well I do not like the exhaust port with the compression flange setup, it is a real hasle if you want to do pipes bigger than 2". I also do not like that it is using the water ports as well as the oil ports. Just about everyone I talked too says the diesels do not need to use the water ports and my experience on the 3B is that it helps more raising the temp then cooling it off. Also the intake hose is a slightly reenforced hose that will not last more than 6 months.
The Toyota setup is very clean and if you can scavenge the parts from an old 13B-T you will have just about everything you need. But lets be real for a minute they still use this CT-26 to power the 1HD-FT the CT-26 was designed to work with engines up to 4.5L Pretty big for a little old 3.4L and why they put it on the 13B-T is a mistery unless it was the only one they had at the time. Even when it is mapped to the 3.4 it still leaves some turbo lag, and if you offroad a lot you will find it rarly get a chance to spin up. the factory one also uses water ports in addtion to the oil ports.
I will try to include pictures later of all three setups.
Cheers,
Michael
Well you can take this post as my personal preference but I have a few 3B engines and several different turbos and I have even swapped a few to make sure to be fare to all the turbos. Here are the Turbos and my rating of them:
Toyota CT-26 (13B-T setup)
AXT Garret Turbo
Turboglide Garret Turbo (M24)
I can now say with all confidence that I like the Turboglide best of all. The AXT comes in second and the Toyota comes in last place (really close to the AXT though).
The Turboglide one wins mainly because of simple design, low cost, and great performance. The m24 looks pretty small compared to it's competition however it is rated up to a 3.9L so on the 3.4L you get almost zero turbo lag, and it has plenty of power at the top end as well. I like the fact that this is a simple setup and comes with everything you need for the low price of around $2600 AUS. The Turbo does not use the water jackets just the oil lines and that does help keep the engine temp down.
The AXT is the one I started using years ago and although it works pretty well I do not like the exhaust port with the compression flange setup, it is a real hasle if you want to do pipes bigger than 2". I also do not like that it is using the water ports as well as the oil ports. Just about everyone I talked too says the diesels do not need to use the water ports and my experience on the 3B is that it helps more raising the temp then cooling it off. Also the intake hose is a slightly reenforced hose that will not last more than 6 months.
The Toyota setup is very clean and if you can scavenge the parts from an old 13B-T you will have just about everything you need. But lets be real for a minute they still use this CT-26 to power the 1HD-FT the CT-26 was designed to work with engines up to 4.5L Pretty big for a little old 3.4L and why they put it on the 13B-T is a mistery unless it was the only one they had at the time. Even when it is mapped to the 3.4 it still leaves some turbo lag, and if you offroad a lot you will find it rarly get a chance to spin up. the factory one also uses water ports in addtion to the oil ports.
I will try to include pictures later of all three setups.
Cheers,
Michael
). This is a pretty good setup and to the non-cruiser enthusist it looks stock. We have the stock thermostat housing, intake runner, heat sheilds, and intake hose all from the original 13B-T. plus the fabricated adapter plate (3BII has different exhaust manifold). This worked very well and with the turbo mapped to the 3BII turbo lag was not that noticable, however when wheeling at Moab and places with a lot of technical obsticles the turbo is really not used much, with 35" tires 4.11 gear in low range with the H55F the engine is using a lot of low end torque, and the turbo does not even spin up at those low RPMS. Awesome on the top end and hiways 
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