My friend is having some hard luck..
Posted: September 6th, 2006, 3:24 pm
My buddy had his car all prepared to be in Targa Newfoundland which he has been in the past few years and this year he really built the engine, CP pistons, eagle rods and a general freshening up. I tuned it for him with the crome sofware and the car was making sick power. So anyway, he had to get some power steering lines made up for the car since it hadent had power steering in some time. Brought it to a garage and had the lines made up, but when they were putting the pump back in place they had to move his boost controller. They took the line off his external wastegate so they could move it and when they put it back on they put it to the wrong nipple. One is just an atmosphereic reference for electronic boost controllers and the other actually opens the wastegate. Needless to say when he did a pull on the highway in the car the wastegate didnt open and as a result the turbo made whatever power it could. He was in fourth gear doing about 140 and the tires lit up on the car then BOOM! White smoke everywhere and the car instantly shut off. He probally saw 35 psi when the car is only supposed to take 10. It happened so fast there was nothing he could do, And this is what the result of that is.
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Heres a vid of the car the first or second year they ran in targa. They dont know if the car is going to be done in time since it starts saturday.. but it is possible.
Heres a vid of the car the first or second year they ran in targa. They dont know if the car is going to be done in time since it starts saturday.. but it is possible.