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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: bgoldstraw on 29 August 2009, 19:10

Title: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: bgoldstraw on 29 August 2009, 19:10

My ko3s has just gone pop by the look of things, been looking for one on the classifeds but they seem hard to come by?

Has anyone used these guys off ebay, they have good feedback and apparently its a direct replacement?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-GOLF-BORA-GTI-1-8T-20V-K04-NEW-TURBO-TURBOCHARGER_W0QQitemZ160336534457QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item2554cd5bb9&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-GOLF-BORA-GTI-1-8T-20V-K04-NEW-TURBO-TURBOCHARGER_W0QQitemZ160336534457QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item2554cd5bb9&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14)

Cheers Blaine

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: MaXXeH on 29 August 2009, 19:33

dont buy it!  i got one of these and nothing lines up correctly!  i got a genuine one from backdraft. but will cost u around 750!

i got mine tuned by r-tec and made 250-260 at the fly.

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: bgoldstraw on 29 August 2009, 20:00

cheers for letting me know! so glad i asked before i bought it lol, i spoke to turbo technics and they said about £580 plus vat to rebuild it but ive heard people say they had theirs rebuilt for about £250/300 in the past,

heard good things about r-tec on the ukmiv forums they seem to know what there talking about unlike alot of places out there lol

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: Ivor Mk4 Turbo on 29 August 2009, 20:55

Thought about the KO4-001 which bolts straight on?!  You'll need a few other goodies to make it all work sweetly, but you'll have mega power.  Take a look at this thread:-

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=115033.0

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: bgoldstraw on 30 August 2009, 12:06

spot on cheers for the info m8, wasnt too sure what the 001 was but if it gives more bhp might be worth it  :grin:

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: bgoldstraw on 01 September 2009, 16:29

just rang around a few companies for a rebuild....

turbo technics said £570 +vat, another said £470 + vat and midland turbo said £180, why is there such a difference and has anybody used midland before??

thanks blaine

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: johnson6672 on 01 September 2009, 20:21

Never used them but i have heard of them and they are a good company from what i have heard, don't forget companys like Turbo Technics have a big name and tend to use that name to charge big money.

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: Sas on 01 September 2009, 20:32

I have just bought myself a k04 001turbo i have quite alot of the setup actually got the manifold, tt intake pipe ,oil and water lines was told the injectors on my car should be fine... Not fitting it untill after edition

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: mac456 on 01 September 2009, 20:40

must remember midlandturbo if a horrible thing happens lol  :rolleyes:

Title: Re: Replacing Ko3s
Post by: bgoldstraw on 01 September 2009, 22:02

lol well if it comes to there only about an hour away...  cheers for the feeback johnson, just cant believe the difference! paid tt to do my pd130 last year for about £600 and thought i cant pay that again so did some shopping around this year  :smiley:

sas is the 001 the same manifold as the ko3s?