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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 12:24 PM
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Forced Proformance only making turbos with ball bearings?

Any one else heard of this change?
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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 12:44 PM
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Right now it's only the Evo 8/9 Black.
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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 01:34 PM
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don't know whats going on with FP. i order my "in stock turbo" for my evo x 2 months ago and still no turbo or call back from FP. great customer service
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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 07:08 PM
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English racing told me yesterday that as of wednesday all FP Turbos are made only with ball bearings. So it raised the prices of them by about 500 bones.
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 02:08 PM
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Yeah i kinda wanna know if they are making this for the FP turbos on the X
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by mitsael
Yeah i kinda wanna know if they are making this for the FP turbos on the X
Not yet.
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 05:19 PM
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Not yet.
Not released but people are testing them.
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Old Aug 29, 2011 | 12:28 PM
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Not released but people are testing them.
yeah, just in the testing phase for the X. I think fishstix is testing the new FP Black ball bearing turbo.
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Old Aug 29, 2011 | 01:27 PM
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Yup...nothing new, this has been going on for a while. Big difference between testing and release though.
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