I finally got my car turbo setup all done. Checked for leaks, everything checked out except for a little exhaust leak at the downpipe. Set the afc, got on the freeway and punched it in 3rd. Vtec never kicked in. Fuel cut off at 7k rpm. Tried it again and my charge pipe fell off and ran over it on the freeway. Went back and got it and the pipe was bent. Have to wait again for another pipe to made. It was fun for 10 secs.

 

HAHAHAHHAAH, keep up the good work

 

You should get your pipes C-notched at a muffler shop. They wont fall off in the future.

 

that sucks

 

...bad day

 

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How is C-notching done? Any pics?

 

i think he ment beaded ? or flared

 

believe me, this is the 1st of many b00st issues for you...good luck!

 

Get steel braided oil lines if you dont already.. I used a rubber hose for my return line and it expanded after a month and then kinked causing my seals on the turbo to blow. Now im n/a for a while.

 

thats proly one of the funiest boosting problems ive heard

 

How the hell you run over your charge pipe? Looks like you blew two couplings off? O_O Dont be cheap, get some t-bolt clamps and clamp that sucka in. Works gOod for me.

 

funniest boosty boosty problem i've ever heard.....

 

damn man that sucks. but you make it sound funny how it lasted for 10 sec. hahaha

 

the **** we have to put up with when we run boost

 

Do it right do it light do it wrong do it long Live and learn

 

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I do have steel braided oil lines. Well, I was on the freeway and I heard a clunck, then looked at my side rear view mirror and ran it over. This morning I had to start my car to move it and I notice the check engine light was on. It was code 71 (misfiring in cylinder one). The check engine light didn't come on yesterday. My autometer a/f is reading lean as hell. Yeah, yeah.... autometer a/f is just a light show, but does this mean anything? I did a compression check and it reads 210 across the board. Reset ecu and check engine hasn't come on yet, though I haven't driven it and won't til I get a new pipe.

 

 

it happens to all of us at one time... Just back on that horse, and try it again...

 

I'd hit it.

 

haha my bad... I thought it was funny... I feel ya man, my turbo setup has been one big headache... I just ripped my mounts apart cuz they were never designed for 300horse... and a number of other things to boot... good luck

 

Sorry to hear that at least is fixible

 

Hope you did some sort of tunning before you "punched it". next you'll see a rod punch through your block. Becarfull and do it right. Get some T bolt clamps too.

 

damn...

 

uhh, if you have parts falling off your car within the first day of being boosted...maybe you should have someone who has experience with turbo kits go over your work. It's one thing to blow a charge pipe off one end, but to completely have it drop and run over it....well you obviously didn't clamp either end very well. I am using the cheap clamps that came with my drag kit for 3 years with no pipes being blown off.

 

Couple questions.
VTEC never switched over, why not? Your boosting with the car not fully warmed up, or is there a problem causing it not to switch over.
So it's an LS/VTEC motor, with fuel cut at 7k rpm?