yeah i sprayed down the carb with alcohol but didnt take it apart. anyway i ran the engine today for at least 15 tanks with good results. the first two were very painfull and required lots of tunning back and forth. after a couple more tanks i got it tuned alot better. i am not sure how that happened but the engine slowly started to cooperate. maybe it needed running becaus it was left for such a long time. maybe the carb cleaned itself in the process. more tunning and three or four tanks later i had it running pretty well. temps at around 235 which hotter than what i like but that seemed to be the temperature the engine liked. this is in a NTC3. one thing i know for sure... no more turbo engines. i still believe it is turbo related... thanks for every body's help