Changing turbo center sections?

[Indy]

I was wondering about the feasibility of this. I have a GT turbo with the floating journal bearing center section. It's a big mofo, and ball-bearings are something cool to brag about, and they even help performance too! I want that thing to spool before I start the car up!

Ummm...anyway...How much of a pain might it be to swap in a ball-bearing center section? I've searched the net and can't really find much about doing it, so it's probably not done very often. I know I would have to have it re-balanced, what else might be an issue? I've been searching through the Garrett specs trying to find out if they use the same shaft, but haven't found anything there either.

Nate

[Shaun41178(2)]

you can

Its called a CHRA.

Center Housing Rotating Assembly

Garret does sell these without the covers.

You won't need a rebalance. Just put the new covers onto the CHRA and you are good to go.