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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 12:00 PM
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Coolant spilled into compressor housing

OK so I was working on the car yesterday, and took the SSQV off to clean it. As I was removing one of the coolant hoses it sloshed coolant out and some ended up spilling into the compressor housing from above. I took a rag and stuffed it in there to wipe it out, but Im not entirely sure if I did get it all. Is this a bad thing? Or will any coolant that did make it down there just burn off? Im not trying to mess my car up.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 01:04 PM
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Clean up what you can, then start the car and drive it easily. The airflow will suck the coolant through the engine over time...Just don't get into the boost for a little while to avoid banging the compressor against any pooled coolant....
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 04:12 PM
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thanks. think some coolant like that will bog the engine down at all? I just put in 720cc secondaries, along with an rtek 1.7 and walbro, and just driving the car around the block I can tell that something definately isnt right. Im getting almost no response, even doing light driving. I figured I must have botched the injectors somehow and was going to check them out again, but figured that maybe it had something to do with the coolant. What do you think?
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Old Oct 25, 2006 | 11:03 AM
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Little coolant is not going to hurt anything.


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Old Oct 25, 2006 | 01:43 PM
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so you got that bolt out?
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