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I know the issue has been beaten to death, by why no Ball bearing Garrets yet???

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Old 08-27-2002, 05:48 PM
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Default I know the issue has been beaten to death, by why no Ball bearing Garrets yet???
wherein lies the difficulty??
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Default Maybe because Honeywell, almost got bought by GE, but got left at the alter,
has been having financial trouble and hasn't been focussing on new product developement )
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but nonetheless, why no custom fab jobs? what is so difficult about it?
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what's it matter to you? ur selling ur S
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well, i may keep it as a project car :-) this or a supra, cant decide
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Custom fabs wouldn't be Garretts. Honeywell owns them.
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what about trust turbo's or something?
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Knew it was too good to be true, another 6 months of Scorch
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Default HEY!! THAT WAS MEAN :-( anyway, its either build the worlds fastest S4 or supra...
id dump so much money into this thing if i went all out, but its stillup in the air
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