Meh If I'm after a giant killer, I'd build and have built a Twincam turbo. If I'm after a super reliable and still relatively economical runabout that could hold it's own against standard turbo cars and other boy racers, I'd build and am going to build a turbo A14, someday...

That's not to say my Twincam isn't reliable, it's only once had problems and that was most likely because I was to lazy to open it up, clean it up, and assemble it with new gaskets. Exactly the same thing would have happened to an imported a series which has been exposed to the elements causing it to rust internally.

Real world an A series is not in the same league, it doesn't even run in the same class when you drag it. That's also where people miss the point, you're not building a A14 turbo to compete in class B where the Twincam's are going to kick your ass, that's unless you stroke it out to 1600 which would kick it into class B, and would be defying the whole exercise. It's going to run in class C where it belongs, and where it will be competitive.