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Feb 27, 2013 | 03:16 AM

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Cobe

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Originally Posted by thedubsack85

Start with fixing what you know you broke! Anything else is just a bandaid IMHO.

Wait what

Feb 27, 2013 | 09:46 PM

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Alright guys so the car has been in the garage nice and warm and I completely cleaned the inside. Seats out. Shampooded and Nurished hahaha

Now for my questions, before I bring it back on the road.. So most of you know I blew my turbo a while back

Well. The turbo swap went fine besides my waste gate sticking open so Matt(zzp) changed that through my tune but I still have the 21 psi base tune.. Ever since getting the tune changed a little to get the wastegate to open up I notice through the rear mirror a nice amount of coal (so I call it haha) while shifting up higher in the rpm's or NLSing lol I feel as if I should get a correct tune for MY car before I begin to drive it again daily.. But then again I have some time because we should be getting hit with about 5-10 inchs in about 5 hours lol

So I guess final question is.. Am I correct? I should get a retune before bringing her out... Real Skepticle lol. I still need to change the plugs and would like to seafoam the car too.. Theres a nice How to.. Just dont need any **** happening

Direct injection creates a lot more "sout" or smoke than a port injection. Diesels for example... most are direct injection. The ideal amount of smoke is initial wot it will puff smoke.. then it clears up

Mar 1, 2013 | 04:04 AM

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Definitely get a good tune. Unless you want to keep fixing stuff.

Mar 1, 2013 | 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by leemanfor

30 psi tune lol

Lmao YOLO!

Mar 1, 2013 | 07:54 AM

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Lmao YOLO!

Lmfao

Mar 8, 2013 | 04:20 AM

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Wait what

You know you have a waste gate issue. And had a tune put on to band-aid it. Fix your waste gate and go from there.. How is this hard to understand?

Mar 8, 2013 | 09:32 AM

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You said "coal " Did you mean black smoke? Oil burning is white smoke.

Oil burning is blue smoke I thought...

Mar 8, 2013 | 10:11 AM

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it is bluish tinted smoke. grey/white smoke is usually moisture/ steam which would be your coolant.

Black smoke is lotta fuel.

Mar 13, 2013 | 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CudaJoe

it is bluish tinted smoke. grey/white smoke is usually moisture/ steam which would be your coolant.

Black smoke is lotta fuel.

^This. All that black "smoke" is just a ton of carbon coming out when it should be carbon dioxide.

And also, it's SOOT, not sout or sote!

Thirdly, his first turbo blew up on a 21 psi tune because it was spiking to 27 psi if I remember correctly. Everyone's wastegate rod has a slightly different pretension, so that's another reason most people get a custom tune because then fine adjustments can be made so that it boosts what you want it to. Cobe's pretension was unusal, which caused the 27 psi spikes. I remember seeing threads when he was putting his replacement K04 in, discussing what, if anything, he should set the pretension to.