LBZ: GT4094VNT - school me on this piece

LtEng5

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so looking at a bigger turbo for a new motor build. want to stay with a single and VGT. I have sen many people runing this turbo and happy with the results. I am confused with some of the details of this unit, thou.

Garret uses exducer diameter to size its turbos, but yet almost everybody uses inducer diameter to size turbos. what is a comparable turbo to this unit as for inducer size. I see some retailers selling a 66mm, 68mm or even a 71mm "cheeta" turbo; which uses inducer measures but no exducer measures. also in the competition classes whether sled puling or drag racing use inducer diameters for class division.

so; can you see my confusion to all this.

the truck will be a daily driver with towing duties from campers to race trailers. the short block will be stock bore and stroke with LBZ rods on delipped LB7 pistons. stock cam. top end will be ported LBZ heads with RDL cast flow headers and 2" up pipes. 4" down pipe to 5" full length exhaust - no Kitty, EGR delete. I will be retaining the grid heater in stock location ( for now; I am debating building a better flowing tube/pipe from the cold side of the CAC thru he grid heater into the Y bridge ). Injectors will be 40% units - unkown vendor as of yet.

I do run EFI Live and have multiple tunes for a stock LBZ and I will be building a DSP5 set of tunes for the new motor. just no tunes for a larger turbo/injector motor.
 

NC-smokinlmm

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With your mild build I would call Mark Broviak at Danville Performance and get one of his 72mm turbos. It is a 4094 with an larger wheel. It is capable of 750 + rwhp...
 
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TROJAN366

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I have a 4094avnt with a danville wheel in it. Spool is like stock and the power is far beyond stock but I would suggest the 72 if you are looking to make over 650hp. I am on 60 overs and am limited by the charger. Good thing is if you get the stock 4094 you can always send it to mark if you want more!!!!
 

LtEng5

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cool. that it is a 68mm. thats where I was leaning for Danville or Fleece unit. isnt the 4094 compressor housing bigger than the Danville units?? I was also inclined to the thinking that a 72mm would be on the big side for a single, even with the VVT; would start to be sluggish on the bottom and start moving more toward top end power range for this small of a build... no....???