Turbo

02 Vortech has inspired me to do this and i went around to my local shop and told the guys about it. They could do it all for me no problem but i need some serious advice.
I have a 2001 Blazer LT 4x4. The engine is solid, runs great has a small minor vibration at idle and the intake gasket leaks just a little which i will get fixed as well at cold startup the lifters are noisey but i've heard thats normal.The truck has 78k miles on the motor. I've kept up on all the oil changes and tunned it up not to long ago. I've also been doing full synthetic jobs. I want to know if i would need to do a build up on the engine ? Like cammy or lifters , heads , pistons you name it. Does this need to be done? or would i be fine just bolting it on. The turbo they said would be fine for my car which i forgot the name is a t4 turbo and i would be paying around 500 dollars for it.

Please guys give me input. I dont want to do something i'm going to regret. I love my blazer but i need a little more get up and go from it.

That depends on how much boost you plan on cranking through it... On stock internals, you probably wouldn't want to run any more than 8 or 10lbs of boost for reliability...

yea probably around 8 to 10 is what i was planing on.

The hard part is going to be the tuning and such... the installation of the parts is the easy one, lol

These guys probably know some people, ill find out. 

Double check that, yeah... It would suck to get everything all installed, and can't get it to run right because there's improper tuning...

How much are they charging for installation?

How much would they charge for tunning?

Ill find that out tomarrow. I'm good friends with the owner / installer so it wont probably be to bad. Tunning i have no idea how much it would be. 

first thing i would do is a compression check and then a leak down test to make sure your motor is up ot the task

Ok doing a compression check hopefully tomarrow. What is a leak down test ?

At $500, something's not quite right. The few complete kits I've seen retailed about $2000-$3000.

Am I mistaken? Or should you ask a LOT more questions?

I think the $500 was for just the turbo itself...

Yea just for itself it was 500. Pipe , intercooler, waste gate etc. i gotta get.