I don't normally bother posting on the forum but considering it's my turbo in question I suppose I should comment!
The good points with the turbo is
reliability ( I did x k miles then a "short term loan to Ruan" who promptly put 20k miles on it and now a extended unknown loan to the southern members).
power is 160-170
cheap and easy to buy.
The only main downside with that turbo is probably my main mistake and I decided at the time to save time and effort and to have a T2 exhaust housing machined to to fit the gt17 turbine which I think makes the horrendous lag.
So fit one of these directly or as Anton says a gt20 or the current safe common (boring?) way a TD04
James
The good points with the turbo is
reliability ( I did x k miles then a "short term loan to Ruan" who promptly put 20k miles on it and now a extended unknown loan to the southern members).
power is 160-170
cheap and easy to buy.
The only main downside with that turbo is probably my main mistake and I decided at the time to save time and effort and to have a T2 exhaust housing machined to to fit the gt17 turbine which I think makes the horrendous lag.
So fit one of these directly or as Anton says a gt20 or the current safe common (boring?) way a TD04
James