$450 chinese turbo and 600 plus HP(food 4 thought)

Bottom line is that a turbo is cheap....putting that turbo in a CAR (not a dyno) is not cheap. It is a hard long road. Just ask anyone who has a turbo car. Even the simplest designs have a lot of plumbing, wiring, and other crap that goes on and makes the project really hard to undertake. Lets use Maddart as an example. He started with a simple idea and has taken it to a nearly completed state. I think his thread is 30 plus pages and counting. Snowball comes to mind. I personally have built a couple of turbo cars and have had decent success and the feel of a turbo small block mopar is like nothing else. Yeah you can throw a giant turbo at a LS motor and make stupid power but you can do the same damn thing to a SB Mopar and blow through a carb and have the same result. Think junk yard magnum with a big turbo. I made over 900 hp to the rear wheels with a stock block and crank in my SB Mopar.

On another note I have had an older Turbonetics turbo come unhinged on a blow through 360 and it fed my motor the compressor wheel one shaving at a time. It wrecked every piston and cylinder walls not to mention all the bearings. It could happen to any turbo motor. Cheap Chinese turbos are all around and it may get real hard to find one not made in China in a few years, so I dont think they are as bad as some say they are.