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At the time the engine was produced, exhaust-driven turbochargers were also referred to as turbosuperchargers. I'm not sure when the engineers dropped the 'super' bit, but I suspect German influence in the original name. They seem to like those 3-12 word concatenations.
Belt-driven and...
In a perfect world, a well-rebuilt engine with a prelube system to prevent dry starts and conservative EGT's that isn't lugged or run above redline will last **** near forever.
The consensus seem to be:
(Re)Build quality and oil starvation on startup are extremely important to engine...