Quote Originally Posted by Bullfighter View Post
Pickles must be an optimist cuz reading what he's gone through would make me throw in the towel.
I assumed the hypothetical situation was not "go back in time and do it again", but "have a chance to make the decision again now".

For example, if my Jeep got totaled in an accident, and I bought a new Jeep, I would install a turbo on the new Jeep. All of the problems I worked through already would not be problems with the new install. As it sits now, I am nearly completely happy with my turbo, enough that I think it's worth the purchase. The install itself would go much more smoothly the second time around, now that I know what NOT to do in some cases

Still a few occasional annoyances with the tune, but there's good reason to expect that to improve in the future. Prodigy is getting their own dyno soon, and now has the ability to force the auto transmission to stay in a selected gear, so they will be able to much more effectively test and fine-tune areas of engine operation that they couldn't as easily work on in the past with an auto trans that insisted on shifting, and limited access to dyno (scheduled tuning sessions, pay per hour to use dyno, etc). They should be able to make progress more quickly now.

If the question was really, "would you do it all over again if you could go back in time", then that's a tough one. My initial thought is that I'd wait longer until the issues were worked out so that I didn't have as many problems. But I was involved in solving some of the problems, so maybe the turbo wouldn't be as good as it is now if I had waited until now to purchase.

I also would miss out on an interesting opportunity if I went back in time and chose to wait longer: Prodigy just recently hired me to manage their official vendor accounts on forums (started on jk-forum already, hopefully joining others soon). I'm basically getting paid to talk about forced induction on the internet now . It's just a part-time job I do in my spare time, but it's fun and gives me some extra cash for Jeep mods. Maybe I should put a notice of this in my signature so I don't get accused of being a "shill".