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Originally Posted by dualdiagnosis
Wait a minute here. I remember you explicitly stating that a turbo car with the proper tune is very reliable. Now you are saying something different.
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It can be very reliable. Once you get all the kinks ironed out. When you change the basic operation of a car as much as installing a turbo on an NA motor there is going to be issues. You can't predict everything. Like the other day my greddy oil return with the banjo bolt failed. The heat from the downpipe caused the rubber hose to crack, even with the heat wrap, and it finally let go. Now I had NO control over that. So to fix it right and for good I had to drop my sub frame, pull the pan have the fitting welded and get the fittings and install them. Now if I wasn't a mechanic and didn't have the resources I do, working for Ballistic, that would have cost me 500-600 in labor.
Now imagine your boost solenoid vacuum line pops off and your wastegate has no boost source to open with and you decide to go WOT for a little fun. You have no idea that the line popped off. Which can happen at ANY moment. And BOOM! You boost to 30psi because the wastegate didn't open. BYE BYE MOTOR!!! That is possible at ANY moment. Now no matter how great your car runs or how perfect everything is, your motor is JUNK!! These are the things I'm talking about.