Originally Posted by ROLLGUY

Quite interesting, but those of us thinking of turboing a 616 want to do it "on the cheap". I don't have the money that AMG has to put into the tooling and R&D to produce something like this. If I was to turbo a 616 (my still do it), I would definitely try to do it right (piston oilers, turbo pistons and rods, turbo valves, turbo anything else that will make the engine last). I don't think that just fabbing a turbo on a 616 will be good for it internally. I believe it would not last long without the turbo specific parts/systems that are designed into the 617 turbo engine.