AirQuez... good points.

Phantom0 is way off on things... we've seen boosted lancers pushing 10-12 psi for over 2 years now. Hell i did more than that for a long time and only had issues when i up'd boost due to always wanting more. Maybe turbo isn't for you as you may not be willing to invest the care in the car it takes to make it last. It just takes patients and caring.

 

what kind of caring is involved w/ owning a turbo i mean you are making it sound like its a nightmare to care for. what has to be done say on a weekly/monthly/yearly basis.
thanks

 

you have to watch you car for leaks... if there are any fix them. You have to watch you oil level... if its low fill it up. You need to watch you egt's... if your getting hot get off the gas. Simple really. The biggest thing i ever had to do was watch the egt's. I was always pushing the envelope and 4 time rebuilt the motor due to that. If i'd have just kept things at the kit settings i would have been fine. I loved the power though!!

 

sounds good, same thing as my eclipse was, only watch the egt's, btw: what should the egt temp get to before you should back off. i heard about 750 max. but im not sure

 

if it hits 750-800 you should watch it and ease up off the gas. I believe it was said earlier in this post that 800-850 is about the highest you'd ever want to go. High EGT = High Block temps and Intake temps which cause some major problems!!!! Around 1100 you will get that nice cherry glow starting NOT GOOD AT ALL

 

i hear what yur saying. Me personally am not responsible enough to run a custom turbo. however if i owned a car that cost 30G's i would never pop the hood. SCARED. I don't think turbo is for me. I searched for EVO last night and my credit union says that i need 6000 down. wow thats alot of money.

 

screw it, i'll figure something out.

 

Hope you don't have any pets or kids phantom .

 

ok your EGT numbers are all way off. a turbo lancer IDLES at about 900 degrees. how in the hell are you going to ease of the gas then? aluminum melts at around 1600 degrees. don't get anywhere around that, simple as that. at WOT im anywhere in the ballpark for 1300-1450.

 

*waits for confirmation from BOE*

 

i think i should wait for boe myself.

 

Just my cat Tedshoes. he would love me even if my motor was blown.

 

also is the TSI extreme kit safe for an automatic?

 

http://www.wrxforum.com/cgi-bin/ulti...c;f=3;t=004269

There ya go kids. I know its not turbo lancers, but its going to give you a basic idea of the kind of temps you should be looking at and the physics behind them.

 

First of all, you have to determine what scale is your EGT measuring. Is it in Fahrenheit or Celsius. You DO NOT want your car idling at 900 degrees C; actually it is probably impossible to do that.

Just to do the math for you, idling at 900F is about 482 Celsius, which is a tad high, but still doable. 800 Celsius is the max temp I would want in any turbo car, which equates to about 1500 Fahrenheit. SO check and see what your EGT gauge measures. I can tell you my Apex'i unit measures Celsius.

Just make sure we are measuring apples to apples and oranges to oranges.