evo3 16g flow 42lb/min. 6851s rated at 51lb/min, but are actually using 68HTC wheels now which are mapped to 53lb/min (and there is another speedline that you can run them at

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It's also not just about choke flow but where you will run them at for PR. a big 16 is mapped to 3.2PR but peak flow is 2.7PR and then drops off after that.
a 2.0l will need less PR to make the same HP as a 1.5l (3.0l divided by 2). Easy math, 100hp per liter NA. So a 2.0l will make 200hp NA (1 PR), 400hp at 2PR, and 500hp at 2.5PR. on the 6851s, that rides the lower part of map and with another speed line, you can see would be ~55% efficient at 50lb/min at 2.5PR. technically doable, but upping the turbo size for that power would be better at the sacrifice of spool.
Now take a 150HP 1.5l (which is extremely optimistic for a 6g since they don't make 300hp NA), but keeping it simple. 150HP at 1PR. 300at 2PR, 375 at 2.5, 450 at 3, 525 at 3.5 PR. so theoretically, 1050hp with two at 3.5 PR (37psi). Maybe with big cams, short runner intake, ported heads, upped compression and some nasty e85 or M1. but on the typically mild 6g72, need to raise the PR to hit that flow. But doesn't matter with a 6851s.
you can do the same exercise for the different 16g, 14b etc options and look at their compressor maps.
next thing to look at is shaft speed. The higher the shaft speed on a PR/flow point, the more the turbine wheel will flow and generally, the more responsive the turbo will be. so if you pick 3 PR and 35lb/min as your operating point and don't intend to run more than that, I'd pick the combo that runs the most shaft speed at that point. (I'm actually going to change my mr2 setup because of this, i'm "lugging" the shaft on my current combo and have more backpressure than if I pick a different compressor wheel and spin that bitch

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