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Old 09-22-2004, 02:47 PM
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I am planning on getting a turbo in about 5 months but I have heard that it is not a good idea if the car has semi high mileage? My car has 90,000 and will have more by the time I get up all the money for a turbo. what should I do?
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Default Re: This might be a stupid turbo question? (dawrenn)

Compression test and leakdown test. Miles are mostly irrelevant, they're a baseline, just like when you use boost to decide how much power a car is making. A car with 40K miles that was driven like total **** can have a ton of leakdown and bad compression, and a car with 140 that was totally babied and taken care of can still have great compression and leakdown numbers.
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tune it properly, maybe replace the head gasket, and put in arp head studs
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Where would I go to get a compression and leak test?
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most any shop or buy your own testers
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