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How dangerous is the BPU?


Alex_GT

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My car took an awful lot of abuse at bpu. I haven't heard of anyone really that's had a failure at bpu levels on these cars if the correct steps are followed. 166k my car had done and 40k of that at bpu before I went single turbo at 166k now at 590hp. I don't see bpu having any reliability issues. Imo

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You may only get around 1/2 a million miles out of the engine instead of the million or so that's generally expected.

 

Tyres will take a pounding, as will fuel. Everything else will generally wear pretty much the same. If looked after the 2JZ is fairly bullet proof. Tired turbos are usually the first thing to go.

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My car was BPU'd from near birth as I purchased the car when it was 2 years old and last time I checked it was still churning 340bhp at the drive wheels. As far as I'm aware, being a Jap import, its running the original ceramic turbos with 110,000 miles now covered. Engine is as sweet as the day I bought it and replacing the clutch plus fitting a new intercooler last year helped the straight line acceleration considerably.

 

So expect the high mileage serviceable items to need attention well ahead of a BPU power unit.

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