XR4 stock turbo replacement?

I'm starting to reassemble my street XR4. My stock turbo has a very very cracked turbine (hot side) housing. Chunks of metal missing inside and the wastegate area has two cracks, one of looks like it will soon make a "permanently open" situation. All of my spares are cracked inside, too (although some not as bad).

So, Anarchists, do I reassemble with my least cracked turbine housing and a 40bob downpipe/wastegate elbow (in stock) and hope it doesn't self-destruct? Do I find another non-cracked housing (seems they're all this way)? JV, do you remember what a stock turbo exhaust A/R is (0.60 cold side, I've seen listings for both 0.60 and 0.48 hot side)?

Or do I get a badass Cozzie housing?

The turbo guts themselves look good and have only 20k miles on them, so it's not like I need everything. I also have a 0.48 cold oil-cooled T3 that probably came out of a Volvo or Saab. It has a similar (large) crack problem.

Budget? 8 pack of Guinness? Stay at home dad is my price-point.

Thanks--

--Andrew

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

I think John likes the .48 hot side (faster spooling). I think you should trade me your 40bob elbow for an uncracked turbine housing with stock wastegate elbow. but seriously I think the turbine housing from the Saab (.48 t3) with the 40bob elbow should work fine.

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)

ooo, pictures. Not very good ones, but hey. The worst cracking is of course hardest to see (in the top picture).

Future Hyundais?

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/2007 07:59PM by fiasco.

Anybody got a 0.48 T3 hot side housing without the cracks?

Don't want to pay $220 for a new one.

--Andrew

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/20/2007 09:37PM by fiasco.

Sell the kid, use the proceeds to buy a new turbo and a fast sled fer yerself.
Bad Santa

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net