I have an 88 T2 that I'm rebuilding right now. I'll be putting a S5 turbo and be using the S5 front cover as well. My question is, why the big difference in price between an NA gasket set and a turbo one. It's pretty much all the same parts. Can I get away with buying a S5 NA gasket set? It's half the price.

 

yes you can use the N/A gasket set, but you will need to buy or reuse the turbo to engine gaskets and the intake manifold gaskets, all the internall are the same.

But I wouldn't use the S5 front cover since it uses a ecu controll omp, that is unless you not blocking off the omp

 

Yes I was planning to block off the OMP.