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Old 07-12-2005, 07:28 PM   #10
wiredone
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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my stock motor let go this way... pulled up to a set of lights and stepped on the clutch... sucked a screw into cylinder number 2 i think... it actually didn't do any real damage at all... (the screws are copper so it just flattened and made lots of noise... the head was fine and so wsa the top of the piston... but to be safe i took it apart and while i was at it went forged.....

If i was NA it would have just melted and blown out the back.... luckily for me it didn't make it to the turbo....

Bora (TDK) took my advice and had it taken off and looked at and the butterfly's were already missing 1 screw and a few were loose from memory so i would consider it pretty high on the priority list if your out of warranty and have a lack of $$$...

i had the butterfly's come loose twice with high boost so i just replaced the whole inlet manifold as it wasn't giving me much since i wasn't NA anymore i didn't need the extra top end.
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