Who are Billet Turbos
Who are Billet Turbochargers???
Here is a quick Biography on Billet Turbochargers....
Billet Turbochargers have been featured in recent performance car magazines such as Hot Fours & Fast Fours over in Australia.
The turbo bearing cartridges are not Garrett cartridges.
- Garrett ball bearing turbo's only use steel ball bearing's
- Billet Turbochargers turbo's use twin ceramic silicon nitride ball bearings.
The Billet Turbochargers turbo's are designed to be a lot more robust to exceed the demands of high performance engines, handling much higher shaft speeds, thrust loads and torque loads.
How these turbo's come about is pretty cool. Mark, one of the owners of Billet Turbochargers, is also the main man at Mr Turbo Australia. Mr Turbo Australia originated from Mr Turbo USA. Mark has been rebuilding turbo's for 15+ years and has worked for turbo drag racing motorbike teams here and in America. You may know of the red Budweiser turbo drag bike. That's there own team. Mark's dad Steve is the man hanging onto the handle bars.
These guy's also have another business called Talon Precision Aerospace. (This is where it gets interesting ;) ). Mathew at Talon Precision Aerospace is an ex Qantas engineer and together, Mathew, Mark and Steve design, manufacture and build experimental turbine jet engines for the Australian defense force and others. The technology Talon Precision Aerospace has developed in the jet engines has now been carried over into the Billet Turbochargers Turbo's. Now because Billet Turbochargers turbo's have basically the same technology in there turbo cartridge's and ball bearing setup's as there mother companies (Talon Precision Aerospace) jet engine cartridge's and ball bearing setup's. You can be assured that your Billet Turbochargers ball bearing cartridge is going to be close to bullet proof. A combustion engine will never even come close to the same extreme conditions the cartridge and ball bearing setups were built to withstand in the turbine jet engines.
We should be thankful to Billet Turbochargers for raising the bar in turbo technology.
