Well good for you brother I could see why you would want something better than a hot air setup....my car is salvage title as well from a small tree laying over the hood in its past just crinkled the passenger fender and hood and pushed the turbo manifold down about a half inch....car is still in perfect shape and worth its weight in gold to me cause its been a family car of my dads since late 90's...I basically grew up in the thing and thats why I get a little on the defensive side when ppl dog what has been a powerful reliable setup for him...
I personally was burned by the original lc2 that was in the car when I took possesion of it...whether it was fault of me or just the motor letting go it was devastating. Caved the number one cylinder wall completely and the piston was found in a million pieces all over the motor...wrist pin was completely froze to the rod....beyond destroyed and this was at 14psi....BUT....it had been rebuilt with hyper pistons many years and 30,000 miles before I had it....my dad was a big block guy and had on occasion had some spirited rides at 21 psi with no monitoring and just small supporting mods...he also told me about when he melted the turbine wheel out the exhaust racing some gto on the interstate....
Point being it was well abused by a not so educated owner...
Now it has a new motor rebuilt by a reputable builder....we will see how long it holds to my abuse but my geuss is without being a dipshit it should outlast many other components on the car for years to come.
Now I have seen knocking precious ls motors at less than 30k miles from working at various dealerships in my life making less power than many a stock setup turbo regal.
You just have to go in with the understanding that there is NNNOOOO such thing as "bulletproof" engine.
Anything can and will break if not treated with respect...just understand that
I personally was burned by the original lc2 that was in the car when I took possesion of it...whether it was fault of me or just the motor letting go it was devastating. Caved the number one cylinder wall completely and the piston was found in a million pieces all over the motor...wrist pin was completely froze to the rod....beyond destroyed and this was at 14psi....BUT....it had been rebuilt with hyper pistons many years and 30,000 miles before I had it....my dad was a big block guy and had on occasion had some spirited rides at 21 psi with no monitoring and just small supporting mods...he also told me about when he melted the turbine wheel out the exhaust racing some gto on the interstate....
Point being it was well abused by a not so educated owner...
Now it has a new motor rebuilt by a reputable builder....we will see how long it holds to my abuse but my geuss is without being a dipshit it should outlast many other components on the car for years to come.
Now I have seen knocking precious ls motors at less than 30k miles from working at various dealerships in my life making less power than many a stock setup turbo regal.
You just have to go in with the understanding that there is NNNOOOO such thing as "bulletproof" engine.
Anything can and will break if not treated with respect...just understand that
