Originally Posted by grancuda
Last summer I did turbo set-up on my daily driver & I now have around 15k miles on it with virtually no issues. I’m only doing low boost for longevity, keeping it under 10psi. I’ve got a 75 mile round trip daily commute & the turbo makes it a lot of fun & still get around 20mpg, the Holley terminator X is getting 4 more mpg than my N/A carb. Being my everyday driver I didn’t go the Chinese route for parts but after hanging around a shop that’s does a lot of turbo builds I would say to stay away from the cheap waste gates. I see lots of the Chinese ones stick & over boost & issues arise.


That's some good info there, thanks.