i had the same turbo on my 5.3 mustang, made decent power i was only on 10# and i had it on there for a few years, never had any problems and there is alot of people on tech running the gt45 ebay turbos

 

Actually, the BW I sold came with the 4" v-band, I'll ask my buddy who bought it if I can try it. If that fits im set lol.

 

Nice man! Did you have the one with the 80mm compressor or the 68mm compressor. I know a lot of guys run the 68mm on ls1tech bc it's only $260 lol.

And LS1Freek, let me know man!!

 

Well, the kid that bought my BW didn't have time tonight to get me the V-band, I'll try again tomorrow. Oh btw, check out the last page on my build thread, I got pics of my GT45 with the 76mm compressor.

There's a link in my sig, but if you can't see my sig this link should take you to the last page of my build.

https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...-502301/page7/

 

mine was a 80mm
2000 mustang gt 5.3 turbo - YouTube
2000 Mustang GT Turbo Lsx 5.3 pull 2 - YouTube
2000 Mustang LsX Turbo v 2000 Camaro SS - YouTube

 

Badass man!! Was yours ball bearing? If so, what restrictor did you use?

 

yes it was, and restrictor? im not sure im following you

 

but alot of my friends have used them as well

 

The oil feed. With my current setup I have just a journal bearing and -3an oil feed with no restrictor. I've always heard you are supposed to run an oil restrictor on a ball bearing turbo or it will get too much oil and push past the seals when it's not in boost. Did you not run a rectrictor?

 

Well, the 4" v-band is too big!!! So it must be a 3.75" v-band.

I would not run a restrictor with this turbo. I think its big enough that it wont need one but I guess we'll see. Did it say anything on the instructions about it?