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TheBlizzard · 03-30-2006

The heads are the same except the cams. The only variation you might find is some of the 90 heads have smaller coolants passages but its not a big deal really. Another difference you might find that isn't a huge deal is some of the N/T heads came with a block off plug for the turbo oil feed, turbo heads did not.

So you should be able to toss his cams in your turbo and head and toss it right on. It wasn't uncommon back in the day of tons of timing belt failures to have a N/T head on a turbo car or the other way around.

And all replacement valves are the turbo style I guess so you shouldn't have a problem there.

03-30-2006	#2
TheBlizzard Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Red Wing, MN Drives: Too Many Posts: 3,184	Re: Turbo head on a non-turbo 2.0 The heads are the same except the cams. The only variation you might find is some of the 90 heads have smaller coolants passages but its not a big deal really. Another difference you might find that isn't a huge deal is some of the N/T heads came with a block off plug for the turbo oil feed, turbo heads did not. So you should be able to toss his cams in your turbo and head and toss it right on. It wasn't uncommon back in the day of tons of timing belt failures to have a N/T head on a turbo car or the other way around. And all replacement valves are the turbo style I guess so you shouldn't have a problem there.