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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 08:38 AM
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i was wondering what the stock psi was and whats the most psi you can run on the stock turbo?
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 10:26 AM
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stock is 5.5psi



max boost is around 10 psi with proper fuel management
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 12:37 PM
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mine has some mad free-flowing exhaust and i spike up to 8 psi when drop into 2nd



other than that, mine hits around 7 under hard acceleration
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 02:09 PM
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10 on stock ecu, correct?
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 02:16 PM
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yeah 10psi on stock ecu. you can go higher but the stock turbo isn't happy and starts puking oil short thereafter. ask me how i know
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 02:38 PM
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how do you know?



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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 02:40 PM
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i had oil dripping off my hood
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 02:46 PM
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LOL vosko. You'd be the one to try too. How many rotary's have you killed! lol
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 02:56 PM
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honestly the only engine that i caused its demise 100% was my turbo II and i couldn't expect too much the TII i basically brought that engine back from the dead
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by vosko' date='Apr 14 2003, 11:56 AM
honestly the only engine that i caused its demise 100% was my turbo II and i couldn't expect too much the TII i basically brought that engine back from the dead
yeah you have to say that we can only give vosko partial credit for blowing up one engine, thats pretty good considering his track record



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