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Old 12-10-2002, 03:36 PM
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I recently sold my 1st gen in hopes of purchasing a 3rd (FD). But as much as i hate to admit it will be my only source of transportation. What is the life span of a 13b-REW? With some mods (porting, lil more boost, and a slighty larger turbo with ecu and necessary fuel upgrades)? Also in favor of ditching the stock twin turbo what size single turbo would give the same performance as the twins?





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Old 12-10-2002, 03:46 PM
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i daily drive my fd...well that is until i decided to go single and now as i near completion i will probably daily drive it again. my car's previous owner used it for a daily driver also. i think it will be fine as long as you take car of your car. the car was totally stock when i got it and it had a rebuild at 96k on both the turbos and the engine.
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i would daily drive it if i had one. regardless of mods
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i used mine as a regular car and i didn't really have problems, once i got the car dialed in



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the modded FD is daily driven...

as long as there is no precipitation ....
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Mine was daily for a year. With a decent handful of mods. Rarely run hard though.
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Old 12-10-2002, 04:17 PM
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Mine is not daily driven, although it could be..



except when it either A) Rains, B) Snows, C) Hails, D) basically any precipitation...
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I store mine during the winter. With the reliability mods, you should be fine. A single turbo is better, reliability-wise, is better than the stock twins. plus it's more power, and that's always a plus



but if you beat on any car, no matter if it's an RX-7 or a Yugo, you're going to eventually run into problems.

Just take it easy on her, and she won't give you any grief
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thanks guys for the responses, any idea on what size single turbo that is good on p[ower with lil lag for the 1.3 ?
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Take a look in the single turbo section. Theres a good bit of info there. For a daily driver, right?
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