[s-cars] RS2 hardware requirements...

[Eric Phillips]

Sorry - I meant that a new 968 MAF was pretty spendy - and I was
comparing it to a used RS2 turbo.

I don't mind used KKK turbos.  I wouldn't buy it unless it passed
end-play and radial play specs.  Yes, they might get run hard, but
they are robust equipment.  Even if the thing were out of specs on
play, that could be factored into the deal.  A rebuild of a turbo
that's shot would yield a good-as-new piece for a fraction of the
cost.

Yeah, I sympathize with you on the low-balling - if the turbo were
used, but good, I wouldn't want to pay much more than 50% of new.
Less than that if the turbo wasn't good.

While I'd rather have a genuine RS2 piece, I would entertain the idea
of going with a journal-bearing Garrett hybrid of like specifications.
 Something like the T03/K26 hybrid.

Then I could use RS2 off-the-shelf software still.

New and unused?  Should go for pretty near new and unused price.

On 2/24/07, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> FMIC, eh? Very nice.
>
> The 968 MAF, unless it went way, way up in price, is nowhere near the cost
> of
> an RS2 turbo.
>
> I got an RS2 on the Dahlback group buy- cost something like $1400+shipping
> or
> somewhere around there. I sold the turbo for basically what I had into it
> (brand new,
> never installed, never even had the protective plastic caps off the ends),
> although a
> bunch of idiots tried to lowball me into selling a brand-new, hard to get
> turbo for
> $0.50 on the dollar.
>
> If you're looking into an RS2, IMHO either pony up for a new one at $1800 or
> whatever
> it costs now, or seriously consider something like Javad's "replica" turbo
> for 1/2 of that.
> I don't believe in buying used turbos, especially in an application that is
> likely to be run
> hard (it's not a stock turbo, after all) and especially if I don't know the
> owner and how the
> car was maintained and used with the turbo in question.