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I used the cork gasket from Napa auto parts. Its finiky about the torque specs, but man it doesn't care if the surfaces are oily. :-)

So my turbo es bueno no?

Is Cali kids like Joe that are tooooooo damn lazy to read this post. Joe, this post is all about you and your peers there buddy.

Little advice: Take an older penny (like 1970s or earlier penny) and scratch the journal. If it leaves copper behind, the crank MUST be reground. Either way, the crank is out, go get it ground & pollished.

Look up the "whoosh mobile" or Andy Granatelli. Also look up Turbine Powered Indy Car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Granatelli USAC regulated the air inlet size thus reducing horse power that the turbine could make. The down side to that was: Reduced power and HUGE INLET AIR TEMP...

Surely its better than stock. Not sure how many psi she'll hold... For the price, you almost can't go wrong.

It might not be a "true shortage" but when Uncle Sam comes first and you start paying 10x what you were paying for the same amount of cloth, you're in deeeeep sh!t.

I did. Kit ships tomorrow. :-)

Yeah the comp wheel is bent all to sin. Should be salvageable.

Dunno what movie you guys were watching, but that movie sucked ass.

Should be. *Crosses fingers* Im working on another BB turbo that turned out to be a real biz-natch when it came to locating the bearing. On that ^ & your turbo, Im going to use two ball bearings instead of going hybrid. Should make things alot easier. PS What did you suck up into...

Space Cakes FTW. :love:

Havent' gotten any pm from you. My forum is "closed" for house cleaning. As for your T78 - its rebuildable and Im working on mapping it out for DBB. May take some time though.... :-)

YAY! My turbo is running! :-)

Pull tranny. Install on engine. Install engine/trans combo. Call it a day.

Mark, be careful. I see you more as an older brother than a customer. Oh, and don't forget about those parts that dropped off the back of the ar15 truck.

As long as you use some sort of media (sand paper with block, etc) after scraping, you should be fine. Just be sure not to nick or gouge the surface with the blade.

Typically if you have a link, and you right click on it, you get a vertical option bar with things such as "open, open in seperate window, cut, paste, etc"

Why are drivers so "light" in the head? Would there be an advantage of having an oversized driver (like the big bertha ect) but having one that is heavy rather than super light?

When Im surfing the web, and I right mouse click for options, the option bar doesn't come up untill you scroll over it. Whats the deal?