i have a turbo off a 6.? GMdisel and am going to use it on my 2.0 pinto. i will have to make an adapter to accepct the exhaust manifold. and one for the intake. and make a plenum or the hollly 650  i will use .
  NOW FOR MY QUESTION . should i use a waste gate ? what psi boost to run ?  or where can i find turbo info ? i am sorta lost, but know enough to be dangerous.
thanks

Let me first say, "I'm the type who has one part and then builds a car around it." So, I understand your desire.  That said, you will be a WHOLE lot better off just getting a complete turbo setup from a donor Turbo Coupe (or the like).  As was stated a carburator and a turbo (especially lacking a wastegate etc.) is full of pitfalls.

Search out this site for my posts "Wittsend" and follow my saga (or others).  I have often commented that a turbo Pinto looks like a 2 on a scale of 10.  In reality it is a hard 7 on a scale of 10.  And, that was having a complete donor Turbo Coupe at hand. Creating something that has inherent problems from the start makes it only harder.

I'll close with saying a GM diesel likely has a turbo too large to spool up quickly and a 650 seems like overkill for a 2.0.  Sorry.

Tom

I am running a 650 dbl pumper on my 2.0 turbo motor. The tuning process is a bit tough and would be almost impossible with out a wide band O2.  I blow through my carb from a T4 turbo and it makes 15lbs + boost. I just popped a head gasket but thats almost to be expected at some point. I do not have a waste gate but will be installing one now. Its much harder to tune the car at 15 lbs boost than it will be at say, 8 lbs boost. with the dbl pumper carb, you can tune the primary for bottom end and crusing and the secondary for top end. Funny thing is I have # 86 jets in the primary now ( which is way huge ). The carb was jetted for a V8 with # 76 jets and I figured it would need jets in the 60s or high 50s. the wide band told me other wise with A/F reading of 16:00. NOw with the 86 jets I am reading between 11:00 and 12:00 at about 10 lbs boost.
Yeah FI would be great but a carbed turbo is not that hard to do and if you blow through it you can also innercool it.