Udate as of this lunch:
took the intake to turbo compressor elbow off to check to see if the turbo has seized up. thankfully no....but.
where the shaft comes thru the compressor blades, there is a nut that tightens down on the compresor blades. this nut had come loose. essentiay it seems like that would make the turbos exhuast side spin spinning the shaft whcih then spins INSIDE th compressor blades. that wold cause it not to boost. unfrotunately, the nut they used isn't a regular hex nut. its completly rounded with straight grooves all in it. (don't really know what kind of tool that would require).
so i tried tightening it by using pliers. another thing is that once it gets tightend up to the compresor blades, you have to hold them to keep from spinning(i'm concerned about breaking due to them being ceramic). i tightend it about as tight as i could and then decided to go driving.
crank it up and rev it up a couple of times to get it warm.
WHITE smoke. the reason for changing the turbo out in the first place!
granted the used turbo I bought did have a little bit of shaft play, but whil driving it last night before the prolbem i had no white smoke. so i continute to drive to see if it will boost. nop, no boost.
i dint get a chance to check to see if the nut was loose again but here is what i'm assuming are the problems
Problem of turbo not spoolling:
nut probaly came loose again and shaft is spinning freely inside compressor blade
Problem of white smoke
1. this turbo is blown as well, whether before i bought it or last night somethign happend blowing it
2. head gasket is bad and it did not blow white smoke last night b/c i had flushed the coolant system and not enough pressure had built up to push coolant out yet, only the excess air
I intend to do another compression check tongiht but last one i did pulled good numbers. Hopefullyy compression reads good numbers again and that would pretty much isolate it to the turbo(at which point I can try and get money back for this one and order the CT27 with my core.)
Any suggestons would be greatly appreciated.
**on a side not, my friend said that in his experience of f-bodies(transams/camaros/firebirds) have coolant seals somewhere in the intake. does our car have any? none that I know of but wanted to confirm.