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Old 10-12-03, 06:46 PM
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Thumbs up Picture of my turbo glow!
Hi everyone, just went up to the mountains and then popped my hood to see the glowingggg. Heres a pic hehe.




and here is a pic of my car at the top




hope u enjoy, and if neone else has glowy turbo pics, plz post!
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Thats friggin sweet man!
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i've never seen one glow that color
that's cool
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Thats soo cool! But hella weird that its glowing purple, anybody know why that is?
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is it normal for turbos to glow period?
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Originally posted by hondahater
is it normal for turbos to glow period?
Yeah, i've seen them glow a redish orange, but never purple
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Purple? What the hell? Just what kind of turbo glows purple? Iron usually glows red when brought to the temps that a high performance turbo setup will run at.
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thats awesome, I've never seen anything like that
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you dont have you heat sheilds on?
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purple?? wtf? is that possible?!
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is it normal for turbos to glow period?

If it is more than a dull red (on the street) I think I would always check for abnormal exhaust restrictions or an overly rich/retarded mixture before assuming it was "normal".
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Originally posted by minclo
purple?? wtf? is that possible?!

It was red and pink, but the camera picked it up purple for some reason
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I've had my turbo glowing very bright yellow-orange before.

it was REALLY REALLY hot. Usually it'll just get to be a very dull red, if that. It's actually kinda rare that it glows at all, unless I've been driving the car hard.
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well, ummm, thats purple, wow, thats insane, but still cool as hell
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Originally posted by Terrh
I've had my turbo glowing very bright yellow-orange before.

it was REALLY REALLY hot. Usually it'll just get to be a very dull red, if that. It's actually kinda rare that it glows at all, unless I've been driving the car hard.

yah i had been pushing my car for over 40 min or so cuz i was in the mountains and it was all uphill.
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You must have flogged the dog **** out of the car to do that......
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Wow, glow rocks!

However, my whole exhaust glows on my TII. That is not normal.

You look in the N1 Duals and you see a red glow. The cat glows, downpipe, and turbo.

Need to fix it

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Purple?! Anything purple on a car I'd consider to be rice...
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that is so cool
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Originally posted by n4ji
Purple?! Anything purple on a car I'd consider to be rice...
lol again, it was originally reddish, but the camera picked it up as purple for some reason
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I had my turbo & downpipe glowing a nice shade of orange when I had my timing retarded too much (couldn't set it properly due to the damn rebuild not idling well, so I had to guess) Now the damn thing never glows.
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That's awesome.
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Just think about what that's doing to that oil if you don't let your car run to cool it down. Cooking the **** out of it?
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