You guys are the best. Yeah, it was really odd. I went to get the new Pirelli's mounted on the '01 and the guy at the shop asked me if I wanted to sell it... I said, maybe, he said give me your number... within a few days a guy called me, I told him what I wanted (FIRM) for it, last night he showed with cashier's check in HAND! WOW. That was fast.
Yeah, I am going to try owning just one for a while... However, don't be surprised if I buy a neglected/wrecked one and start a new project (NON-TURBO).
BTW, I would have sold the turbo in a heart-beat if I could have gotten even 2/3 what I have in it. Sure, I lost thousands on the '01, but I had it for two years and definitely got my money's worth of fun. I MIGHT have put 2k miles on the turbo over the past year, and at least 6 months of the last year, the darn thing lived at the shop getting fixed. It is sitting in my garage right now, dieing from a blown head gasket...
My advice to the Busa world... add a pipe (for sound), maybe a BMC filter, and LEAVE IT ALONE! Do all the Bling-bling you love, but don't mess with the internals unless you want to lose reliability... that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!
Thanks again,
Doc