Ok just looked at rear housing it is indeed .64 exhaust

also took a photo of the id plate:




A friend of mine is pretty turbo savvy. He has played around with a lot of them on 4wds.
He is convinced that this turbo is too way too big and a waste of time. He thinks I'd be better off using something off say a Charade turbo or TX3 laser. He simply said a old 1.4 wont have enough exhaust gas to drive a turbo off a modern 2L. Logical argument...

D your comment re "tad big but good with low boost and higher comp"

can you please elaborate?

basically I'm going to run a standard motor. Which from what I have read means I want to run no more than 10psi Max and hope to get the turbo to start producing decent boost at 2000-2500 RPM and maxing out at standard A14 redline of around 6000RPM (that is standard redline yea?)

I just want to know should I abandon this turbo completely as it will simply never do this? The whole just use it and see how it goes doesnt really work when you have to pay someone to make fully custom exhaust and inlet manifold. I dont wanna spend over 1000 dollars on T25 manifolds just to find out its only producing boost at 4k and above.

Thanks in advance guys...