quick question on adding a turbo to a 5sfe Options

[b22ri22an]

I read through a lot of the stickies and a few threads but cant find these particular answers

Can you run a low boost say wastegate pressure about 7lbs on a stock ecu with no piggyback unit? Will doing so compromise your motors reliability?

If the answers were there in the stickies and I missed them I apologize, but it seems they just said its recommended but never said it could or couldn't be done without one if I read it correctly.

I'm not looking for tons of power just a little bit more then what i got. I'm about to have my 5sfe fully overhauled and I am considering putting a turbo charger but I want to keep the cost down. I know if I had the piggyback i could get a lot more the 7lbs on stock internals but the piggyback and hooking it up and tuning it is the part I can't afford the rest can be bought and installed rather cheaply (sub 500) and i can always add the piggyback later when I have more disposable income.

[Syaoran]

Smaay is talking about this:

http://warp.scl.utah.edu/mr2/Turbo5sfe.html

This always leads to wanting more, which usually leads to kaboom.

[Pfloyd09]

Smaay is talking about this:

http://warp.scl.utah.edu/mr2/Turbo5sfe.html

This always leads to wanting more, which usually leads to kaboom.

That page is hosted on the UTAH.EDU site. Any chance some of you fine people are in the SLC Utah area? I am, and it would be very nice to have a 3S-GTE swap-knowledgeable guy near.