Is it bad to take long trips with an aftermarket turboed car? I will soon install my turbo on my 6gen accord and worried about making college trips home. It's a 650 mile trip. Any suggestions?

 

i drove for 6 hours today in my built/turbo lsvtec civic. Im going to drive for 15 hours next monday...

the only problem i have is breaking axles

 

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the only problem i have is breaking axles </TD></TR></TABLE>

Oh darn!

At least its not like my friends DSM. He has some sort of driveline problem about every 3 months!

 

just dont boost while driving. i dont see why long drives would be bad as long as you dont keep it in boost/

 

more info. on this please..

I might have to drive about 100miles(oneway) everyday..-_-;

 

I was wondering about this too. I'm going to college about two hours away (at 70mph) and will probably come home every weekend while the weather is nice.

 

if your worried get a oil cooler

 

another H-T user with the same concerns...

 

You wont be seeing boost when your cruising on the hwy (unless you consider "cruising" to be 150mph). Assuming everything is put together well, there will be no more likelihood (sp) of your car breaking down then any other similar car...

 

just stay out of boost when crusing

 

yeah i was wondering the same thing and figured that i could turn the boost to 0 and wouldnt have to worry about it on my 14 hr drives.

 

when i drove to va beach (about 3 1/2 hours), i set my wastegate to the lowest position at about 5psi and drove in vacuum the entire way...got back perfectly fine as well...

 

the only thing you guys need to worry about is if you're car is tuned for the highway or not! i see a lot of people who arent tuned for **** and get horrible gas mileage, meanwhile wasting **** loads of dollar bills on gas

Up to the time my car got stolen, I got better gas mileage then i did when the car was stock, and thats not a lie

 

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Up to the time my car got stolen, I got better gas mileage then i did when the car was stock, and thats not a lie </TD></TR></TABLE>

LOL... I get shitty gas mileage, I need to lean my partial throttle out sometime soon. You won't have any problems on long drives, just check oil and coolant every time you fill up. I drove ~4 hours to Lake Chelan in 95 degree weather and all went well, just boosted to pass people occassionally. long trips = 99% all motor

 

I'm curious too....what about engine bay temps. I think with all that hot turbo stuff it would get the motor really hot, especially with heat soak in long distance drives.

Is it normal to have pretty hot engine bays after turbo installs? (I've only driven it about 15 minutes, and the temp gauge was fine, but it was only for 15 minutes. But the engine area did seem warmer then it was before.)

 

the engine bay will get much hotter due the turbocharger components adding to underhood heat.

Boosting on the freeway is OK. BUT-- you must have proper fuel management. Boosting for more than 10-20 seconds on an engine without forged pistons is probably not a good idea, because they simply cannot dissipate the heat like they need to.

In my fully built geo, i've had no problems climbing 6% grades and accelerating rapidly around corners (under boost almost the whole hill about 10 minutes of driving) You still must have an adequate cooling system or else you will just overheat all around..

But as far as just "driving" you wont have any problems as long as all your hoses etc stay intact. Not under boost is just like driving your car n/a, with maybe a little bit more stress due it's pushing exhaust gasses through a turbine housing, but you needn't worry about that.

 

I have a friend with a built eclipse gst that cracked a ringland driving from fresno to los angeles to get tuned.... I frear long distance drives personally

 

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Your engine bay is going to be at its coolest when your cruising off boost on the freeway. The volume of air going through your engine bay is going to increase as your speed does. the worst times for heatsoak, and high temps in general, is when your car is at a standstill.

Underhood temps on my wrx will reach 70+ degrees celsius when sitting after a drive. But even in 100def (F) temps will not get over 40deg Celsius while the car is in motion. A different car than a GSR for sure, but the same principle applies.

If you want to worry about underhood temps, dont worry about long trips, worry about accelerating hard after stop and go traffic. Especially if the intake is in the engine bay.

 

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Key phrase... "driving to get TUNED "

 

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If you turn boost to "zero"..you'll still have boost...whatever your stock wastegate holds..is how much boost you'll push..no matter how much boost you dial on your boostcontroller...

Khoi

 

if you guys are so worried about reliability why do you modify your car?

 

...because it's fun..

learning by mistakes = priceless
worrying = next step to upgrade

 

you are your own boost controller. Just try to stay in vaccum and you should be all good. I dont think you will be in boost cruising at 75mph on he highway. Well at least you shouldnt be.

 

I was trotting 80 MPH all the way home, 320+ miles from NOPI St. Louis this weekend... never got under 75mph pretty much, except 2 miles in a constructions zone...

But I was in my gal's Saturn.

Civic's still down...again.

 

Yah **** I went to school 250 miles from my house...Put 18000 miles in 8 months on my turbo car that I run daily at 15lbs of boost and stock block. I just dont boost on long trips