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Originally Posted by ROLLGUY
If you are thinking to move over the entire head, manifolds and turbo, I would say no. There are several issues with this. One, the bottom end is not going to handle the extra strain on all it's parts. Two, the IP is set up for the N/A head and will need to be changed out as well. You might as well just put the complete turbo engine in and be done with it. Just my opinion though, so take it for what it's worth....Rich
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No, just the head. Keep it NA. Literally just swap in the head and keep the original manifolds. That seems like about 10% of the work of swapping the turbo engine as you suggest.
If I did the entire engine I'd have to pull two engines and transmissions. Swap all the front lines of the a/c (actually purchase new lines as a PO of the parts car cut the condenser out and I have the York right side mounted compressor), swap the exhaust (actually get a new exhaust as the parts car is in terrible shape and I just bought a new exhaust for the NA last year), swap the climate control (or at a minimum move the servo which I may not even be able to do), swap the rear differential and the speedometer (and fix the odometer), and probably other things I'm not thinking of. So when you say JUST put the turbo engine in, it is a bit more complicated and costly versus swapping heads (assuming a head swap is viable).
So since I don't mind not having the turbo I was just looking for a way to save money and boat loads of time...if I have to go that route maybe I should just look at getting a valve job done instead.