Another one bites the dust
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Another one bites the dust
Coming home from doing my oil at a buddies house last and I decided to get on it a little bit. Rolled onto the gas in 3rd at about 55mph and when I was at about 85mph I let off and hear BOOM. Sounded like a real bad backfire. I though nothing of it. I go to give it gas again and i hear the turbo spinning but no response from the car. First thought was that the clutch came apart or something. I down shifted and the car decelerated as usual. So then I figured I just blew the pipe off the throttle body or something. I put putted home for the last mile or so and popped the hood to find this. Looks like it came apart right along the seam. CIA performance piping here I come I guess. Didnt happen at the most opportune time for me financially but oh well
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His sig says so mind you even if he's pushing additional boost I don't see the pipes holding for lifetime of the car when they're sealed plastic. The edges where it pancakes are the weak point in the pipe; you're focing air into a more restrictive area, it's bound to happen; still curious how much boost he's running though.
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If it were me I'd be headed to the dealership because there is no way that should happen. I mean I'll give you that it's plastic but still you were only going 85. Unless of course youre tuned
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Speed has nothin to do with it. The ironic part is the for the past 2 weeks ive been easy on it because we were seeing freezing temps down here in south florida. I was afraid of the plastic being brittle. Well its been in the 70's now for like 4 days now so I finally let my guard down
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Speed has nothin to do with it. The ironic part is the for the past 2 weeks ive been easy on it because we were seeing freezing temps down here in south florida. I was afraid of the plastic being brittle. Well its been in the 70's now for like 4 days now so I finally let my guard down
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If you want to know how cars hold up in frigid temperatures just ask us in the north; the plastic isn't brittle in cold temperatures, trust me. I'd say the full crack is a pressure crack; it split where it pancakes and ripped clean off. Either it contacted your valve cover or was bound to fail sooner or later; how much boost you running?
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Ya well too bad. If sure they wont send a tow truck for free, and even if they did, ive seen tow companies operate. They really dont give a **** about ur car. The colsest dealer is like 7 miles away. Ill manage
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Yeah I spoke before I thought. This would be an engine speed issue not transmission speed. Now that you say that you are running 22psi though it makes more sense that if you nail it to high rpms and all that pressure is built up like that it's gotta give somewhere and yours gave out all along that seam.