not sure how but there is a good sized chipped out hole in the exhaust turbine..

and thanks you cherry i really dont want to quit ir here i told you so from people.. its not completely decided but its looking hard to make work( not actually turboing but life) :(

pictures

you cant see it in a pictures... it is a chip lookling thing that one could easily weld a patch to.. it looks as though it was slammed really hard into something... but thats not the reason why this project may not happen though.

don't give up man. you got through the hard part which is to take action and start getting the parts together. Lots of people talk mad crap about what they're "gonna do" and never even begin. Sit on the stuff you got, or start a "don't touch this money for any reason" fund and save up. It's not going to magically happen on it's own, you have to make a decision and ride it through to the end.

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yeah i know what your saying... i may sit on the stuff a while

Yeah, you should sit on parts for awhile. You never know how situations will change, and then you wouldn't have to start over.

I'm sitting on basically an entire turbo setup for the Ecotec, minus the turbo and a few other parts. Not sure what I want to do with it all yet.

here is my logic tho.. i got this car running tip top shape and it has 74000 miles on it and i have way less invested than you guys robably think due to connections i have.. and with the economy and my personal financial crisis idk what to do....

however my buddy has a set of rims i would love to have (rims where after turbo originaly) and he wants to do an even trade for a few of my turbo parts.... should i do it?
i dont want to call it defeat but moreso mature descision making....

Having less invested than the parts are worth is another reason to sit on those parts. If you have to do it all over again, you may have to pay full price for the parts you originally got for next to nothing.

It's all up to you though. If you feel you'll want to possibly turbo the car in the future, you can sit on the parts. If you think it probably won't happen, get the rims.

depends on your goals. I decided to go all out on performance as my priority, and cosmetics will come later when I'm happy with the way it runs and can go no further without massive breakage.

Some people are the other way around. They want it to look good first, and then make it run faster. I think this is ass backwards though, because why put all that money into the appearance first, then run the risk of ruining paint or other while you're working under the hood. Careful as we all try to be, accidents happen, and I hate to think what would happen while I was doing all that welding on the car. I know it's rims we're talking about here, but make a stand and decide which way to go. You start sinking money into appearance, and there goes your chances for performance, on your budget.

the only parts he wants for the trade is an intercooler(i have 2) and the bov.

i can sit on the rest for a while

that being said post pics and specs of said wheels......

they are adr 17's with rubber on hem 215/40/17 i think
the bolt pattern is 114.3 im pretty sure they will fit after reading posts on here about it

pic of them... i have always loved these wheels...way better in person the inside of the spokes is black

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what? you dont like them?
i test fitted one today and i liked them....

i think the wheels look pretty good, i believe he is shaking his head at the car they are mounted on in the pic........215 is a little too skinny for me.......and that size is way to small for the alero.....

also how wide are the rims and what is the offset......

yeah he has an audi now lol...
i love the wheels... they are pretty low pro its either 220 or 215

an audi? so he got raped on price for a rebadged vw? Anyways, it would be a 225 or 215, but like i said the size you listed is way to small.

also, what is the rim width and offset.....

I don't like the wheels. They just don't look right.. I'd have to see them on the car.

I think those wheels would look way better on an Alero then on a Probe... I still laugh back in high school some kid's dad bought him an Audi A4 and all his friends were making a big deal out of it I can still remember the looks on there face when I said it's an over priced re badged VW then the mechanics teacher said that I wasn't lying about it.

just my opinion, the smaller the rim, the taller the tire you'll need to fill up the fender wells to make it look right (instead of like a 4x4 with 13's on it). Personally, I wouldn't recommend getting attached to anything less than an 18". And really, no amount of safe lowering is going to solve the gap problem on less than an 18".

i have 16 now with very little wheel gap... if i get these wheels i probably will get new tires a little thicker...

and yes they look way better in person....

and yeah im not sure why he got an audi when he was wanting a gtp for the longest time

whats wrong with them? they dont look too outragoues but not too plane. just what i want in a rim lol

If you like them, get them. Don't worry about what anyone else thinks.

You'll need 225/45-17 tires.

i think they are 220 40 17 now.. but they are used so i probably will end up getting some good ones from my work...

and yes it doesnt matter what other people think its my car lol ;)

heres a pic of the wheels i got.... i think there mad sexy lol.although look way way better in person

*sigh*

Had hope there for a minute. Well, good luck anyways.

?? hope for what??

your turbo coming before your rims

I've seen this a hundred times if once. When people are a little shy of the mark, they don't have the patience. They switch goals to something immediately attainable for instant gratification, and continue with that justification until eventually, they convince themselves to lose interest in their original plan, because they keep screwing themselves out of it.

Next it will be a cold air intake. Then it will be (unnecessary) high-dollar spark plug wires because it sounds cool. Then it will be a bigger muffler (which will outflow the capabilities of the engine). Each item is cheap enough to grasp over the short term, but it will nickel and dime you out of getting to the big fish.

Rims are a dime-a-dozen, and you can always find someone unloading them cheap. It takes time and discipline to stockpile the parts needed for a turbo system, because you can't really use any of it until you have all of them at once, and that doesn't fit with the "instant gratification" personality.

When I say I had hope, means I just watched what could have been a good start on a turbo system go down the tubes.

In the end, it's your car, your money, and your way. Go for that Pep-Boys special if that's what's in the cards for you. I just hated to see all that potential go down the tubes.

A turbo setup is difficult on the Aleros. I had my instant gratification with my rims, they were nice, and I never regret getting them, but had I known then what I know now, I'd be sitting on a nice turbo setup and a completely sleeper car.

My point, don't give up on boost!!! The end IS worth it! BJ is more than correct there.
I'm still stocking away parts right now, patiently waiting until the day I can put it all together and enjoy the result.

If you have to wait more to enjoy something, you'll enjoy it even more!

im still sitting on the parts i got the rims for a bov that i payed 40 for.

ANYONE to turn that down is retarded

you can still get multiple parts for the price of the rims would of cost you if you didn't trade for a $40 BOV I think that's a hell of a deal.

if i really wanted to i could sell the rims and have the turbo done
but i would never turn that deal down

I think almost anyone here would agree sell the wheels and finish the turbo, no one would expect a stock looking Alero to be boosted then you can save up and get a pair of slicks or drag radials latter with a set of light weight wheels, well that's how I would do it.

well, that's my cue to leave. I'm the retarded one that would have turned that down so I could have spent that $40 towards a GOOD QUALITY boost gauge, fuel pressure gauge, or wideband A/F gauge. at least something I would need to get my turbo system closer to completion.

Rims in hand, they'll end up on the car. I challenge you to prove me wrong. Intentions are one thing.

Peace.

well of course they will go on the car....
i wasnt going for any personal attack but right now that was the best deal going for me...

im not a quitter everything will get worked out.

also as i owe 3500 on the car still i think adding to the strenght of the motor first would be better than jumping straight to boost (many people said that is a must)
reason being i do not want to put all the money into it right away and ruin the motor, me, i think thats intelligent. am i wrong?

Stock engine can take boost easily. Whoever told you it is a must is wrong. Just don't get too happy with the boost controller knob.