hey i got curious, just for ***** and gigs. does anybody know what the stock turbo is on the lnf?

 

k04 i believe

 

very small

 

Its a K04 by Borg Warner

 

Its a variation of the one the air force uses on the f-18 hornet. If you mod your car enough, you can actually get an afterburner effect from your exhaust. Everybody now calls me Maverick because of mine.

 

Whatcha do in the Navy? Im a nuclear mechanic/ engineering laboratory technician

 

I pretty much got my turbo to turn into a fire ball tonight. I didn't think we had an orange underhood light in these cars...

 

u must have been boosting the crap out of it for a while.

 

Slightly... I was trying to dial in my boost controller, which consisted of a hard pull, stop, turn it up another notch, hard pull, stop... etc.

 

some guy around here made his glow like that, then turned off his car right away after, and wondered why his turbo didnt work anymore a week later. lol i think it was incrusted with baked oil.

 

Umm yeah, I went for a 10 minute cool down drive, got back home, it was still slightly red, so I let it sit for about 2 minutes to cool down some more. I know not to push it that far and then put it away wet.

I am wondering if I am running a bit too lean though... I am running about a 12.5 afr.

 

beat me to it....


small but mighty, look at what audi's do with them when people but ko4's in there s4's.

 

Yeah, but they are also putting pair of K04's in there S4's, lol.

 

what car u talking about? lnf? 12.5 isnt to lean so i hear on the lnf

 

Yeah, LNF. I know its not too lean, but still... kinda a thought. I wont change it, thats for sure.

 

ya but you have to remember its not a twin turbo system, its a bi-turbo. So rarely are both of them spooling hard, its more of a high low system.

 

Still, they have 2x the turbo there. Would be nice if I could do this, lol.

 

only slightly true its actually the KD04 its a K04 made just for the lnf

 

Sht. I thought the guy was being sarcastic about the turbo. Excuse the ******* response above. Regarding our cars, I know they have a stock turbo timer for the K04, but what about the solstices? I have read that when the solstice guys are boosting above 16-17 PSI for extended amounts of time, that they basically need to do a cool down session like mkriebs did.

This is my second turbo car and I still let mine idle after driving it for about a minute or so, or just cruise with no boost my last couple miles, but still is it needed on our cobalts like some recommend on the solstice forums?

 

borg warner k04 dual scroll.

 

I would recommend this. If you have been pushing it, give it a break before you put her away wet. Nothing crazy though, just a minute or 2 like you have been doing.

 

seems like this is a popular turbo

 

you guys crack me up with some of the **** you come up with

 

What, the built in turbo timer got ya?



Lol. I lol'd.

 

and this hahahahahahahahahaha full of win