[s-cars] Turbo replacement questions

[lee at wheelman.com]

Jason,

Go with the happersized T70.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/pictureguides/turboguide/turboimages/MVC-003F.GIF&imgrefurl=http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/pictureguides/turboguide/T70.html&h=401&w=506&sz=154&tbnid=cmI8qc4HDqgJ:&tbnh=101&tbnw=127&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvery%2Blarge%2Bturbocharger%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Not much grunt at the low end, but it'll move some air above 7000 
RPM <grin>.

Lee


On Wed Apr 06 10:33:30 PDT 2005, Jason Butler 
<jwbutler at wispertel.net> wrote:

> My 93 S4 has it's original turbo at 182K miles and shows a bit of 
> play in the shaft.  I believe it is leaking oil into the exhaust 
> as well.  My question is should I buy the rebuild kit from 
> http://hardlineturbo.com/Price%20List.htm  or should I upgrade to 
> something else.  My plan is to eventually chip the car to ~280 hp 
>  so I don't need or want anything extreme.  I do quite a bit of 
> city driving ~50 miles per day and about ~40 miles of highway 
> driving.  My goal is to maximize MPG as much as possible but 
> maintain decent power.  If it helps I commute from 8000ft to 
> 6000ft and back daily.  I would like to do this for as 
> inexpensively as possible but still have quality.
> 
> TIA
> Jason
> 
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