It took some digging because there's not much info on these. It seems like borg-warner and IHI produced these gm-x turbos together...
The first 6 posts on this thread were on topic, after that it went down hill.
http://www.thetruckstop.us/forum/sho...-quot-bad-quot
I believe that the RHE61 is the IHI version of the turbo.
http://www.ihi-turbo.com/turbo_RHE-RHF.htm
What I took from what I read is with the amount of boost I want to run, power would be restricted due to the sizing of the turbines. i'm not saying its not possible to use these on a small block I believe you'll see more gains with a different one. I was a hair away from buying those turbos but there is a reason the motor was taken apart and they were just sitting there in the open. The 6.5 was not at all built with our power hungry ideas in mind so I would say they selected the turbo for the intended purpose.
These are my opinions based on what I have read which could be baised since it was off of other forums. But what do I know? I just happened to stumble over into this section 34 ish hours ago
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