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Sambo33

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Hi guys,

i went for a bit of a drive today, while going along a short straight i gave it full boost and POP, off came one of the cooler pipes. i know its best to leave the car idleing roughly as it does, but i could not for the life of me keep the car running no matter how hard i tried :banana:

the turbo is a highflowed journal bearing t3/t4 with a vg30 exhaust housing, it would have only got less than a minutes worth of idle before it stalled completely. my question is could i have damaged the turbo by all this happening??

it took me a minute or 2 before i reconnected the pipe and started it running again, the car runs fine but i havent given it any boost yet because i need a new clamp.

thanks

Sam.

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Not too sure why you'd want to keep the car running with a popped off cooler pipe. A quick shut down time is going to do less damage than trying to keep the car running with unmetered air entering the engine.

Shouldn't have done any damage though, everyone has it happen to them at some stage and I haven't heard of busted engine or turbo from it.

Sambo33 Grand Master

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Not too sure why you'd want to keep the car running with a popped off cooler pipe.

so the oil keeps flowing through the turbo, so it cools off a bit. my tuner instructed me to keep the car running for at least a minute or two if the cooler pipe pops off.

the engines all good, i was just a bit worried about the turbo

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so the oil keeps flowing through the turbo, so it cools off a bit. my tuner instructed me to keep the car running for at least a minute or two if the cooler pipe pops off.

the engines all good, i was just a bit worried about the turbo

That was a rhetorical question. I know a hot shut down is not good for a turbo but trying to make your car idle without an afm is worse.

Sambo33 Grand Master

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That was a rhetorical question. I know a hot shut down is not good for a turbo but trying to make your car idle without an afm is worse.

yeah no probs mate :thumbsup:

i know what u are saying though, i smoked out everything with unburn fuel while i was trying to keep it running!

im pretty sure everything is ok, ill clamp it all up good tomorrow and see how it goes.

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yep thats exactly what happened to me this morning on the way to work, it was nice and cool in the morning so i had it on full boost.

Pop, and i was reving but was not going anywhere. Had to pull over on the freeway. It had me worry because it never happened to me before. Its all fix now so all good. :(

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should be fine mate. the reason the car stalled was the afm,s when you blow a pipe of you loose pressure to the engine and the afm,s so it should stall unless you run map sensors, as for the turbo, true standing still after a hot burst is not good but it only does harm when you dont start the car up again for hours,hen the oil has time to harden , you started within minutes, i would not worry mate.be fine..

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