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Old 05-27-03, 11:51 PM
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turbos died today..pics
I got my car running better then ever, then poof a bunch of smoke out the exhaust and oil smell, drove back to my house(was only 5min away) popped the hood and turbos were smoking and alot of oil was dripping on the DP and smoking...heres some pics...

http://www.newyorksteakhouse.com/eep/deadturbos.jpg

so now its single turbo time...so if anyone wants to buy my apex intake, and polished efini ypipe... lol or anything else you can think of for the twin setup...turbos? haha

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is that the stock BOV? what kind is it?
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ahhhh the never ending conquest of getting nicks car running rite lol... at least we got there for some time eh nick!!! anyways i think the ypipe has less than 2k miles on it and its POLISHED and his apexi intakes have maybe 5-6k miles.... one day we will get your car running rite nick!!! seems like where in the same boat tho now!!!!!!!!!! laters
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its the hks ss bov, well tonight it was my oil out valve.. j/k hehe
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i probably shouldnt say anything but my car has 91000 original miles on the stock motor and turbos. i run it a 11 psi with no boost controler. i know my motor/turbos are running on borrowed time.

sorry to see and hear that your turbos went.
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i probably shouldnt say anything but my car has 91000 original miles on the stock motor and turbos. i run it a 11 psi with no boost controler. i know my motor/turbos are running on borrowed time.

sorry to see and hear that your turbos went.
How'd you get 11psi with no control?
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japtrix (of west palm, FL) did the work when i did my dp and mp. they set the boost on the primary at 11 and the secondary at 9 im not sure how they did it.
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Hmmm... I'd guess you have manual controllers on there somewhere...
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all i had was a downpipe and i was getting 11psi
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all i had was a downpipe and i was getting 11psi
DITTO... and sometimes 12psi spikes.
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Damn, that sux.
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Damn, that sux.
Well, it could also be a cheap gauge
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damn nick that sucks.. oh by the way this MC..lol.. like the sn..lol.. yeah man when i saw all that smoke yesterday i was like... ****... that sucks.. the when we saw the smoke in the car.. i was like.. awww.... well now we can have that lil camp fire.. right...lol
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oh yea my friend cody wants to know if he can jus buy a bolt on kit and use ur turbos to put it his 87 crx....hahaahaha
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DITTO... and sometimes 12psi spikes.
Well, yeah... That I understand... That's why I said "control".. LOL
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lol... hey nick remember those 18 psi spike we got....lol
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yeah, I guess those 18psi spikes on stock turbos didnt help me too much....lol
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GT3540!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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what turbo you going to get?
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