Ecoboost GTX2971R Meets Drifter Chris Leonard!

The Ecoboost 2.3 has developed quite the following over the past few years. Praised for its light weight and excellent handling in the S550 Mustang chassis, it's no surprise people started to heavily modify these cars into some amazing street rides.

Mamba noticed the hole in performance bolt-on market for these cars. There are few options and many are priced very high making it unaffordable to give the 2.3 the power it deserves. Their engineers went to work and developed something new to bring to the market.. a ball bearing GTX2971R direct fit turbo for the S550 priced to make it obtainable for the average enthusiast.

The GTX2971R has been a proven performer on many other DI 4-cylinder platforms. This is why we felt it was a solid choice for the Ecoboost crowd. At only $1189 it leaves plenty of cash left over for other supporting modifications, making significant gains more obtainable for the average enthusiast. Some people will be afraid because of the cost… but these turbos aren’t affordable because they’re poorly made. They are affordable because of Mamba’s business model. When you purchase a Mamba you’re buying straight from the source. There’s no middle men here, throwing their name plate on, and tacking on 100-200% markup. Here at All Things Turbo, we’re simply a dealer passing off Mamba’s retail direct price but offering a bonus of free shipping to US customers

Each turbo is crafted with genuine NTN ceramic ball bearings (no mystery white label bearings here.) The turbine wheels are manufactured in-house. The compressor wheel is a machined billet 7+7 design which works great at high PR. Each internal piece of Mamba’s turbos are component balanced, then once again balanced as a complete assembly on a VSR machine. You even get an individual printout of your specific turbos balance report in your package.  

Shortly after the launch of All Things Turbo, we met Chris Leonard. Chris races the Formula Drift Prospec series in his sweet Coyote 5.0 powered race car. As it turns out his daily is one unique build as well. A Ford Fusion swapped with a complete Mustang 2.3 Ecoboost driveline and manual trans, nicknamed "ConFusion." While used for daily duties Chris also set this car up to slide and runs some weekend drift events for fun with it. One thing led to another and now Chris is going to be piloting our GTX2971R in his fusion and truly putting it to the test!

Stay tuned as he dives in. The installation and dyno will be filmed and we can't wait to show off his results and demonstrate the capabilities of this unit!