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My single supra has erm gone NA! Help!


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I'm pretty sure you were warned not to do full throttle flameouts with the car standing still. Infact I posted saying that the last 2 people that did that both lost their engines.

 

IT REALLY DOESNT DO THE CAR ANY GOOD

 

The rev limiter is there as a warning, not a goal. I would suggest oil starvation to the turbo combined with lack of cooling has done the bearings. Did you perhaps do a few flameouts during the tunnel run on the weekend?

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I'm pretty sure you were warned not to do full throttle flameouts with the car standing still. Infact I posted saying that the last 2 people that did that both lost their engines.

 

IT REALLY DOESNT DO THE CAR ANY GOOD

 

The rev limiter is there as a warning, not a goal. I would suggest oil starvation to the turbo combined with lack of cooling has done the bearings. Did you perhaps do a few flameouts during the tunnel run on the weekend?

 

not a single one on the tunnel run. branners my flame kit is nothing to do with the turbo, i know that holding the turbo at max revs makes it flame out the back, i dont do this! i have a flame kit with a spark plug in the back that with just a lil few revs will pop out a nice big flame.

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At Santa Pod you bounced the car off the limiter for a good few minutes. I know how the flamer kits work, but they need fuel to work and the 'best' way to get that much overfuel is to hit the limiter a few times and then back straight off and hit the switch.

 

To be honest it was a matter of time before something let go. You may be lucky to only find the turbo shot and it could be completely unrelated to the flamer kit, overfuelling and using the rev limiter, but my advice is to bin the flamer kit and dont rev the car hard from a standstill.

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At Santa Pod you bounced the car off the limiter for a good few minutes. I know how the flamer kits work, but they need fuel to work and the 'best' way to get that much overfuel is to hit the limiter a few times and then back straight off and hit the switch.

 

To be honest it was a matter of time before something let go. You may be lucky to only find the turbo shot and it could be completely unrelated to the flamer kit, overfuelling and using the rev limiter, but my advice is to bin the flamer kit and dont rev the car hard from a standstill.

 

advise noted....

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I was probably a touch harsh so sorry about that.

 

I hope you get the car back together fairly quickly, and do take on board the advice, it would be a shame for you to lose the whole engine as well as the turbo.

 

JB

 

thanks JB, i will be sensible, got to get the car back on road, then ill be stripping off the flamer kit....

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