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It can be less expensive than you would think. Although I can do my own machine work and fabrication, I've found many who can be plenty resourceful to get it done. This cost me less than $800 in parts only cause I bought fancy fittings which cost dang near $200. Not really necessary. The turbo I found for $75 and older IHI's from the 1.7L Scoobies are a dime a dozen plus there are other smaller turbos for less. It's just not about cost recovery as it is having a better efficient bike with more power on tap. I can keep it in the 60+mpg were I to drive like a sane person, but I don't, so it doesn't, but it can. Things do have to be done very right to have reliability. The other bike I mentioned is faster (over all quicker acceleration and top end) and just as reliable. Both bikes still need a couple fail safes installed and working on that when I have time. This is my daily driver and I have over 80k miles on it. I bought it for 1k and have seen my money back many times over in use. I expect the same now turbo charged. I don't even think of the time and money I put into it now. Like Reggie Jackson said after his warehouse of classic cars burned down in the 80's, " I don't build them for the investment or return on my money, I love these things" said with a tear in his eye.
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