Turbo a 97 GS with 106k miles?
03-28-2003, 09:56 PM
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Turbo a 97 GS with 106k miles?
My friend's GS has about 106k miles on it and he wants to put a turbo kit on it, so im wondering if 106k miles is too high for a stock bottom-end engine to handle boost?
03-28-2003, 10:54 PM
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if he rebuilds the internals he should be fine i would think...and also it depends on how much he abuses the current engine because a stock internaled engine could handle it if it isn't beaten too badly
03-29-2003, 06:29 AM
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If he wants to do a turbo setup he should make sure the car is running in top notch condition. I also suggest doing a leak down test to see what condition the internals are in. The steps on how to do this are at www.g2ic.com
If the leak down test and everything else is doing good have him go for it.
If the leak down test and everything else is doing good have him go for it.
03-29-2003, 08:03 PM
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well he just bought the car from somebody like a month ago, but he says the car runs great tho. so whats the max boost the stock engine can handle?
03-30-2003, 05:20 AM
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8 pounds sounds good wouldn't go much higher than that but tuning is a key part in this if he wants his stock engine to take it he must have it tuned. I'm sure all these questions have been answered before so try doing a search.
