Where to buy performance turbo for ALH?

Stage 2 daily should be OK. And it drives a bit smoother than the Endurance. I've had both in my car and prefer the daily, although I'm making less power than your target.

In retrospect at this level of power the expense of the PD150 intake and MAF probably aren't worth it. A good OMI would help, however. If you want to spend more $$ I'd look for an 11mm pump. VNT-17, 11mm pump, PP520s, RC4, 2.5" downpipe is a wonderful sweet spot for this engine.

Indigo Thanks for the response. I do want to leave myself some head room i.e. bigger injectors and just have jeff cut the fuel back a bit. Most likely Chris Hill will do the work. I'm trying to wrap my head a round a good parts list that will get me a strong 180hp or so allowing me to have a somewhat intelligent convo with him...... And hope to keep the rods in it for a bit

I saw you guys have 11mm pumps but required an 11mm core. Bummer

Look here for an 11mm ALH pump, no core required:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=434593

Jeff at Rocketchip says that three things bend rods: Fuel, boost, and revs. If you keep boost under 25 PSI you're OK there. And if you don't over-fuel (764s and 10mm is probably a good limit) that should be OK. What probably did my rods in was the 6000 RPM tune and using it constantly at the track.

Indigo - haha I feel a little better now

Nevada - thanks for the link, those prices look pretty good

I'd say revs actually want to straighten rods because of the tensile mass forces.

It's actually fuel, boost (at the associated CR) and injection timing advance.

You and Jeff agree. Jeff said revs, but he explained that the timing advance required for high RPMs in a diesel causes stresses because of how far before TDC injection can occur.