I bow to your expertise on the TD04 fitment...I've not really looked harder than "oh that's interesting" as I've been expressly told I'm not allowed to play with it too much
(unless it improves the fuel economy).
I'd like to get my hands on an old TD03, though, purely out of interest.
I think the turbo I have is a TD04-14B...from memory? Aside from the exhaust side looking like a bit of a hassle, I didn't think it looked too bad....I'll look again.....
Gowf, as long as you don't 'overload' the MAF (i.e. go off the top of the metering scale) it isn't likely to lean out: It knows how much fuel it needs for a given load (air mass) at a given RPM, and as long as you know your injector duty cycle isn't maxxing out (something like EvoScan should be able to help there) then the only risk is throttle change enrichment, where it's POSSIBLE the turbo could "beat the ECU to it" hitting boost and run lean for a brief moment. However, we've already established that throttle change is where the ECU overfuels, and this is a problem usually associated with fitting smaller, more responsive turbos, not bigger laggier ones.
I'm not suggesting everyone should rush out and try it, but as a "get you home" or "Autronic still in the post" solution it's probably adequate.
I maintain that it would probably be fairly horrible to drive, with overfuelling and possibly a lot of timing retarded out in the areas where it normally comes on boost.
Of course, I guess no one will ever know until someone can afford to try it, which definitely isn't me until next year.