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Well how's this. Since your turbo is being run on the ragged edge of reliability, I'll take it off your hands for you. All you have to do is deliver it to my doorstep. :-)
Having owned two turbobricks myself (both intercooled 240Ts), and two other friends having another two (88 and 89 760s).. all of them in varying states of neglect.. I think that they are pretty well built up. The one with the early style B230FT had some nasty rod knock, but it had also been severely overheated at least twice, and been running uncontrolled boost (probably for quite a while). My wagon had so much nasty buildup that it would blacken fresh oil within a day or two of driving. However the turbo itself was none the worse for the wear (and it wasn't even water cooled)... oh that car was running basically uncontrolled boost too. The turbo was even fairly quiet, until I got close to the fuel cut-off (which was around 16-18psi I believe).
The Volvo turbo drivetrains were pretty tough (especially the B21FTs and the late B230FTs), and are hardly stressed in stock form.. and really are up for a fair amount of abuse.
That said, you can't treat anything like crap and not expect it to bite you in the ass, be it your girlfriend, your dog, your car, your computer, etc.
- alex
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