It certainly wouldn't bother me if you beat me to a turbo swap, in fact I would enjoy seeing someone else's swap ideas put into effect.
This is my first turbo car, so obviously it's my first turbo swap. A year ago I didn't even more than the bare minimum of turbocharging fundamentals. I literally got my first lesson from Wikipedia.
So hopefully it's no surprise that I'm taking the slow, self-educating (ive procured quite a library of TC books) approach to my swap. I'm quite convicted in my desire for a cast mani, but I can see how a tube mani could speed things along. I could even score the SS elbows for free at work. They have a terrible reputation of "falling off the truck" during deliveries.
I think your "meat stance" will be begging you for more hp. Those tires are going to be bouncing checks that your engine doesn't have the funds to be writing.
