Thanks for the input guys,
Cloverleaffarm are you towing with your set up? For me where I live, work, play I am in/close to mountainous terrain, so can be sustained grades 6-8% for 5 miles, poor road alignment (meaning vertical and horizontal) few passing lanes and slow (relative to you guys) speed limits (read 50-60 miles per hour). Translates for me a rig that is quick off the line, can tow (5r guessing 8K lbs new to us have to weigh it) and of course use as a DD work rig.
Swaan will be interesting to see how you make out with your set up are you using a bigger HPOP? Joey just sent my T500 out on Thursday.... so looking forward to trying that out.
Bair I understand, with 97 sig truck I went to a 1.0 (from the stock 1.15) and it was a significant upgrade performance wise. At the time I was able to test it with an auto and then the ZF and because of gearing and 35" tires was always under the turbo smoking away (because of terrain etc as noted above). The 1.0 made it into a fun truck to drive, thats why I was thinking of the .91 housing. Other option was also thinking of BW's think its a S362 but there does not seem to be a host of info on it.
And finally the notion of the billet WW2 wheel in this turbo was to see if there was a noticeable increase in lower RPM performance.
Finally feeling somewhat normal (after 3 weeks of crud) have had one hell of a flu bug, so tomorrow the plan is to pull the last injectors out of the 97 and get them off to Tim at P.I.S next week.
thanks again,
jrc