Quote Originally Posted by onlyme376 View Post
yeah exactly my 06 has 275000 on it and still going strong but i wanted an engine as a base for a rebuild for just in case and the one i got is in pretty good nick apart from the turbo which if you don't mind a cheap one you can get for $400 on ebay a bit like the one with a cracked head you can get a new head off ebay with valves for about $1200 that's a lot cheaper than a conversion
Yes those cheap ebay turbos are garbage. I saw one first hand last November. A customer came to me after being his NAD'S kit from me and had issues tuning it. I told him to bring it around and I'll do it for him. (His intercooler was like a strainer, lol). Anyhow I saw the new turbo and for some reason I put my hand on the outlet pipe of the turbo to give the hose a good move to see if it was on tight. The inlet half of the turbo was moving against the outlet half. Like the to halves weren't held together. It was quite bizarre.