Romano
Being invertebrates, we can dispense with the bullet and just shower them with salt. It's sad when they try to leach money out of interested punters.
I bought a Toyota CT-20 Turbocharger a couple of years ago (in 2004) to make a gas turbine. I told the salesman (near Koila Centre) that I was a professor and that I needed it for a project for my students. I wasn't actually lying, I was a "Research Associate" in UET Taxila and it was for my younger brother (who was at the time, also my student). I got the Turbo, oil pump and a couple of odds and ends for Rs.1200. Got the turbo back home, cleaned it out, and it had almost zero radial play and very little axial play. In short, a wonderful specimen.
My other brother, went to the same place, and bought a turbo for the company car (a Land Cruiser II). The turbo was shot, it leaked oil, and barely worked. Guess what the turbo cost? Rs.18,000 or so.
Kind of makes you think no?