Quote from: GutlessSupreme on April 13, 2007, 07:32:26 AM
Don't mean to be nosey, but how much did that set you back?

also, did you send in your stocker for the core and they just rebuilt/upgraded that?

I'm kind of considering doing that.. but I may have bigger problems. The cracks in my turbine housing are spreading big time around the waste gate. I know it's typical but they're getting back, not to mention I need two helicoils for the downpipe side. Maybe I'll just take it apart and ask if anyone has a turbine housing.

Standard rebuild on our T25's are about $250. I sent mine in and they rebuilt it...My cost? Ummm, hehe $1033, after shipping and everything I listed. They can get you new housings, too!

fak that is insanely to much for what you got IMO

Damn, you got taken to the cleaners.  :icon_sad:The GT28 I bought about 3 years ago was 975 and its 3 times yours is. The biggest GT style that has the 28 base was about 1200 and its 5 times the stock 28. Both of these were + about 100 for the WGA.

Just a word to every one on here. There is a wealth of knowledge on this board, use it before a major purchase.

I can't stand somebody getting screwed. :icon_evil:

Jud

PS, don't forget to check the clearance from that big exducer to the down pipe, may require some grinding so the exducer isn't shrouded. Some people would say thats hacking but if your afraid to grind you shouldn't attempt to modify anything.

Today, I put my shiny crossover and turbo back in my TGP.  I cleaned the turbo up and all fittings, poly taped all the threads, and put new o-rings in the orifices.  Then I charged my battery.  I started it this evening for the first time in a while and watched the WD-40 steam off my engine lol.

The only ONLY reason I stuck with a rebuild instead of buying brand new (and yes I gave it a LOT of thought), was that I didn't wanna deal with the custom parts...modifying anything at all. I wanted to be able to take it out on my own, have it rebuilt, and re-install it on my own....all of which I did. Indeed it is a lot of money, and I very well could have, and maybe time will show should have, bought brand new. But I knew what I was doing, I knew the amount of money, and I knew that it was still considered small. So if I did, in fact, get screwed, I did it to myself lol. However, in the end what matters is that I'm happy with it, and I tell you what I'm totally satisfied.

I do appreciate the concern, but I did take your advice and I looked around. It boiled down to me not wanting to wait forever to have it done. Since I have no tools for any of the custom work, it would have cost MORE to go the brand new route, if it needed a shop to do the work. Maybe there is one that would have bolted right in, but I selected exactly what I had done for good reasons.

Also, the paint they used on my turbo, not sure what it is.....but it is still in the same condition as when I put it in...nothing has boiled off, and when I put my hand on it after my two hour trip to South Dakota, it was hardly warm at all! Not sure how, but I'm not complaining.

Nick! Great to hear you got it all back together! I wanna see it running great and looking great next weekend! :icon_cool:

the gt2871 tookl me about 10 minutes of extra time then to put a stock turbo on.

Well if thats the case and your happy with it :thumb: Thats all that really matters. The coating looks to be ceramic. Tough stuff, I have that on my headers.

I guess Jeff is super mechanic  :icon_razz: took me an hour just to drill and tap the o2 in the down pipe + about $40 for tools, but I'm getting old and don't work as fast as I used to. I was in an uncharted area. Gasket matching the 3071 to the DP took alot of grinding. The exducer bore was cut into the housing over 1/8".



Have fun

Jud

Pushed my piece out of the garage yesterday into the yard......going to a new home this saturday.

End of Chapter..

Changed the driver's side tierod on the STE. when i have another hour of free time sometime in the next month maybe I'll get the passenger side and a balljoint done :lol:

I put a new NOS power antenna in my TGP a couple days ago... love it!  Also changed the oil, filter, and air filter in it, did a coolant flush and fill too. :icon_cool:

I had my car in the garage all week long, well since Tuesday, and I've been waxing it ever since. Every little tiny crevice, door jambs, underside of the hood, trunk jambs, smaller places that you can hardly see...She glows now :icon_biggrin:

Mine is gone.....all this weight off my shoulders i feel like i could fly...

hahahaha

I bet....Im going to buy the seats, hood, and fenders from your old car and put them on the vert

and I'm gladly going to sell them to you!!!


And now that weight is on my shoulders.....lol...

I replaced my tv cable about a week ago.

Also left a little rubber on the road :laugh:...normal takeoff aka flooring it and computer laggggggg, spool, and then wheelspin. It's hard to see, but the marks go all the way to where my white car is parked, they just get lighter down that way. That was the first time I had floored it from a stop in a few months, it did not use to spin that much with just flooring it(almost makes me want to try a spooled up launch, but I'll save that for the track ;) )
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