Right here goes to cut a long story short, i had boost issues which I fixed, lots of boosts leaks etc. The car now boosts lovely.
Anyway I did a lot of bodywork and gave it a full respray, so the only thing that let it down was the engine bay. So sprayed up various bits and pieces and decided to spruce up the turbo pipes, so i took them off. As the turbos fins were exposed i gave them a close look and on turbo no1 there are 3 of the fins that have chips in them, i managed to get a camera behind turbo 2 and all fins intact ect.
So I have a good strong second hand set, but seeing as the current turbos are functioning well do i ignore the damaged first turbo and bolt all the pipe work back up or do i replace with the second hand set?
As im limited for time if I did replace I would probably just replace turbo no1, is it possible to just remove no1 or would they have to come off together. THe reason I ask is that its a pig of a job to get them both out so would it be any easier to just remove the front (No 1) turbo, as I would only be swapping this one anyway even if I got them both off.
What do you think?