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

My first turbo was a knock-off T70 and it left me stranded on the starting line. Broke the air side nut off and destroyed the fins. Nothing went into the motor luckily. After figuring up the fuel, time and wasted trip to the track and then starting over new with a better turbo it would have been cheaper to just get a good Garret that I have now. The good turbo was good for 4 tenths in the 1/4 mile without doing anything but a turbo swap. Sent the knock-off to my turbo guy and he said there was 3 different manufactures inside the turbo and wasn't worth the $$$ to rebuild because of the machine work involved. My experience was a bad one because of the $$$ invested into the cheap turbo and not put towards a good one right away. I don't like to do things over. Congrats to all who can get the cheapies to work.
Later
Ryan