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I was just using that as an example. As for the 72mm billet wheel I have not thought about that. The problem with my turbo is the exhaust wheel is chewed up and that wheel alone is like $500 so with what it will cost too fix mine I would rather explore possible better choices. I've been trying to find as many options as I can so I've you have any suggestions I would love to hear them.

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Here's a little update. I was finally able to order the new clutch disks and am having the cams degreed this weekend or sometime next week. So i will finally be able to install this engine in the car. I'm getting excited lol

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Okay here's another mini update. Friday I brought the engine out to John (pushit2.0) and he degreed my cams in. He was also kind enough to stay up extra late and get it done Friday. A huge thanks to him! Once my clutch disks show up the engine is going back in. Hopefully next weekend.

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The clutch disks came in earlier this week so after work tonight its time to start putting the the engine back in finally. Now my work just needs to hurry up and get me my w2 so I can get my taxes done and buy a new turbo lol

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gettin there!

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Indeed! Still need a new turbo then all the really expensive things are done. The cars in Wyoming so if you're bored tonight you can come help lol

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ah, I actually work tonight but if it will still be there on Wed or Thur I'll be available.

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We'll see how much I get done tonight but it will definitely still be there. It's been there since June and will be there till spring lol

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Sweet! You decide on a turbo yet?

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Ha not yet I have it narrowed down to a handful that will take the least amount of modifications for install. There are 3 borgwarner s400sx I'm looking at, FP makes a journal bearing hta4294 (which is a billet 67mm gt42) which is what I really want, but right now the ones that are winning are a bullseye power s372 I can get one for a little under 1k and there's a local guy selling a new gt4202 for 1k or best offer. The others are around $1500. I don't really want to go to a 4202 but if I can get it cheap enough I will

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Right on. I know we talked about the 3794. That what I bought.

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That's awesome! I want to see that thing when it's up and running! That is a sweet turbo and you can make some crazy power with it. I would like to go to something like that but it's a little out of my price range and then I'd have to have new intake and exhaust fabricated too :-\

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Yeah I hear ya. It's not going on the mirage though untill it's awd. Lol

I thought that's what you said you were trying to avoid changing everything to keep the cost down.

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Ha yeah that turbo on fwd would be kind of pointless lol. I think I want to change the wasgate setup too which will be pricey. I want to go to at least a 44mm probably bigger like 50mm or 60mm and they aren't exactly cheap, plus flanges, and fab work on my manifold lol, I'm going to replace the oil cooler too. this thing just keeps nickle and diming me here and there lol

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Did you hit up mondale for this S400 thing.

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I thought I read somewhere smaller wastegates were better for larger turbos. Don't wanna turn this into a debate but if I can find the posts I read ill link them.

Edit: found info that supported what I said.

It says

big turbo/low boost= large wastegate
Big turbo/high boost= smaller wastegate

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I did. He said he's probably not selling last time I talked to him

Yeah idk I dunno I guess I want to be able to run a little less boost if I want to. The least amount of boost I could run on the 4294 was like 36psi so I'd like to have the option of dropping boost a little if I want like 30ish

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Well made some progress last night. Not as much as I would have liked things just did not want to go smoothly last night lol. I'm going to go put some more work in on her today and see how far I can get on her. Oh and I owe a huge thanks to CornFed2.4 for lending me a clutch alignment tool that I totally spaced and forgot I didn't have lol. Thanks a ton

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LOL @ Budget build stocker under hood. :lol:

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Hahahaha hahahaha yeah... That was there when I got the car. But might need to come out haha

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I was gonna say. I think your engine cost 3x as much as my whole project. ha

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Haha yeah... It wasn't exactly cheap lol. But if you consider what it's supposed to be able to handle for power it isn't so bad haha

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True. Hopefully this one fares you better than the last one.

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I hope this one fairs better too! At least it's better and better make a ton of power because by the time this thing is running with what I've spent between buying it and getting it running again I could have bought an evo lol.

Well I got pretty much everything thing done I can for now. It's finally sitting on all fours after 7 months of being on jack stands :-) now I just need a turbo, oil cooler, and a few other miscellaneous things and she'll be ready to fire up.

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Good work looks nice! Wish I could of actually lent and hand.

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Not going to lie another set of hands would have been nice! But it's all good. We were up until 3:30 last night working on it and most of today too lol. I actually broke your clutch tool :-\ but I was able to get one from auto zone today. I'll drop it off next time I'm up there. Should be sometime this week. Thanks again you were a life saver!

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that motor looks beautiful, cant wait to see it tear around say?...proving grounds :)

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No worries. Like I said whenever just toss it in the mailbox

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Thanks! If funds permit i would definitely love to run it at pg!

Sounds good!

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Nice work, glad to see it coming together.

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Thanks!

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If you ever need a hand again let me know. It can't be more than about 10 minutes from my place.

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It's not pretty much in the middle of your place and mine.

I'd be down to lend a hand to if my schedule permits. Just shoot me a text

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Okay sounds good! I definitely will!

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Okay cool! I'll keep that in mind too! Thanks guys!

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Good stuff. Just realised you're in CP, only a few minutes from me. Hope to see you out and around the area this year.

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Yep I moved back out to cp about a year ago. I just recently realized my location still said Roseville and changed it. I hope the car is out and around this year and not on jack stands lol :-)

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If u care to see what an s300 sized turbo looks like, feel free to come see mine if it helps in ur decision making. But if ur looking at 70mm+ stuff I'm sure it'll be a different frame size then mine Haha.

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I would like to! I've actually been meaning to ask you about that. I've just been busy and haven't had much free time but would like to sometime soon if thats cool. It would give me an idea of what the borg stuff is like and I'd like to compare the exhaust housing to mine off of my 4294 just for the heck of it. Most of what I've been looking at is 67mm-72mm so they are a different frame size. 2 different s400sx's and a bullseye s372 for the borg stuff. You want me to pm me your number?

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Yeah I think the biggest comp wheel they offer in a housing like mine is the 66mm (S366). But yeah if you want to peak at it, it's off the car right now for the next month or so probably. Feel free to swing by or whatever if you want to compare it.