Will this work as a replacement turbo?

https://www.amazon.com/Gt1749v-Gt17...ocint=&hvlocphy=9022504&hvtargid=pla-61764726

Is this the vnt17 people use as an upgrade?

Brand. Generic. Lol. With how ridiculously cheap that is, I strongly question its reliability.

Yea that's what I figured. I just didnt know if it would work on the beater for work lol. I'd hate to pay half what I paid for the car on a turbo.

04silvertdi said:

Yea that's what I figured. I just didnt know if it would work on the beater for work lol. I'd hate to pay half what I paid for the car on a turbo.

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You'd probably hate having your turbo shred apart and spit metal scraps through your intake system too.

Not entirely sure what that turbo is, but it's not a VNT-17. It isn't plug and play on your BEW. The compressor exit is in the wrong place and won't connect to your intercooler piping.

I'm with IBW, wrong turbo on many levels. You might try looking for a 1749vb turbo like this one: https://www.idparts.com/garrett-vnt-17-turbocharger-a4-alh-p-541.html.
If your turbo compressor housing isn't trashed, you might swap out the CHRA with one from Rock Auto. You basically remove the cold side of the turbo from the exhaust manifold, remove the CHRA from the exhaust manifold, and make sure there are no burrs of any kind to affect the turbine rotation and bolt it back together.
Here is the Rock Auto link:https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog...rged,3169,engine,turbocharger+cartridge,49430
$270.00 w/o shipping.

04silvertdi said:

Yea that's what I figured. I just didnt know if it would work on the beater for work lol. I'd hate to pay half what I paid for the car on a turbo.

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I've never understood this mentality, no offense. A cheap turbo implosion then makes your 'cheap' work beater a waste of money in a pile of immobile steel.

Buy the correct part if you want the car to continue to be your work beater. These cars are really cheap to run even buying good parts.

Exactly you just do not want to play with knock off turbo, unless you just do not care about your car