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Your car will break.

SgtMarshal said:
its actually not as bad as you think, I know a couple guys that turbo swapped their gtp's with no tuning. would they have run better with tuning? probably, but 4 or 5 years after the swap, they were still putting a good amount of power down
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Oh, now I feel dumb lol.
 


like a different local guy with an 04+ gtp that has a 3.3 pulley with an overkill tune, 104's, 180 thermostat, headers and full exhaust. Chip is going to be knocking on that dude's door pretty soon. He was asking if he could borrow someones scan gauge to see if it had kr. I dont think it will take long for chip to start knocking on his door.
 


01Grand PrixGT said:
So even with all the mods, how come your car chipped a piston, while others run perfectly fine?
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Car had a random misfire issue that I could not for the life of me figure out. It would cause random spikes of KR, like 6* while cruising, was passing someone on the interstate one day on my way home and the car just started to run like crap and the ses light started flashing. Limped it home and started pulling plugs.
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Slick2500 said:
Car had a random misfire issue that I could not for the life of me figure out. It would cause random spikes of KR, like 6* while cruising, was passing someone on the interstate one day on my way home and the car just started to run like crap and the ses light started flashing. Limped it home and started pulling plugs.
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Lololololol. That blows big time.
 


heat/pressure is what turns the impellers, the intercooler is post turbo, so the air going into the engine gets cooled, if the intercooler does its job good then the air going into the engine is close to ambient air temperature.
 
Exactly. Some guys actually use a turbo blanket to keep more heat in the turbo as it can help spool time and efficiency. The downside it is can hurt longevity if you don't allow the turbo to cool before you shut the car down.
 


Even then turbo timers aren't super necessary. If you go and run the car hard just drive it easy and keep it out of boost for the last few miles of your drive. At that point a 20-30 second cool down is plenty.
 
stealthee said:
Exactly. Some guys actually use a turbo blanket to keep more heat in the turbo as it can help spool time and efficiency. The downside it is can hurt longevity if you don't allow the turbo to cool before you shut the car down.
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But if you didn't use that, wouldn't everything around the turbo get super hot and potentially break or even melt if plastic pieces are around?
 
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