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Here's a short story:

Just took the skyline for a quick spin to try a new fuel map.

When there was no traffic I floored the pedal a bit more (about 4000rpm) ...

The car started to move forward and came on boost - suddenly - BANG!

Yes! BANG!

:wacko::unsure:

OMG! (It was a very loud BANG!!!)

What had I done?? (my fuel map wasn't that bad, was it????)

I rolled (engine died off) to the left and opened the bonnet, but I could see no damage ..

So I started the engine again (and secretly hoping that everything would be fine)

, but it ran very, very poorly.

Also I could barely keep the revvs over 3000rpm and the engine would die off often.

The car made a lot of black smoke and noise either ...

A nightmare!

In 3rd gear and with a lot of smoke and sweat I made it somehow home.

(I was just 3km away anyhow)

With a flash-light I checked under the car and could find no oil leakage or obvious damage.

Again I opened the bonnet and there it was ->

The newly fitted hose joiner had come off .. :)

PHEEEWWWW! Seems it is my lucky day!

(Thanks for listening)

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Ohhh ... I see what you mean!

Thanks!!

Given where the clamps are on the hose, and how long the pipe/lip is - doesn't look like it was done up correctly.

Make sure you get the clamp behind the lip this time around.

Torques Mentor

Torques

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:)

It was my first time ;), and I just recently fitted a new turbo ..

So I really thought something massively wrong has happened :)

Obviously I made a mistake while mounting the clamps..

Nonetheless interesting to see that there is actually much pressure at work ..

I will have more respect now for the PSI figures!

Yeal lol thats happened to me heaps of times so loud you instantly think shit what have i done then the csr idles like a rotary.

pipster11 Grand Master

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pretty common occurrence

you can unplug the afm if that happens, it will limit revs to about 2500 but it drives a bit better than with it plugged in (reverts to a default map)

one time my r32 spat the whole lower half of the hot-side pipe (from under the airbox to the fmic) into the bushes

i couldn't find it so i had to limp it home :(

XKLABA Grand Master

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wait till you get one come half off, it runs like shit on boost but idles fine and drive fine off boost and cause it only came half off you can't see it easy and have to pull half the friggin car apart to find it was the one that joins the back turbo to the front one :rant:

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SiR_RB

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I blew my cooler hose going through the NATO park near stanwell tops, I also herd the bang and black smoke, All my intercooler pipes seemed fine and I started to worry that it was something else, I decided to remove my front bar on the side of the road (had to wait for dad to bring tools which took him 2hours to get to me) and the pipe going into the passenger gaurs was off.

Massive pain in the ass especially if it's hard to get too !

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How good is it though when you find it - that sense of relief that it was nothing serious :) Although the bogans in falcons/commodores flying past while your bonnets open and they scream out piece of shit skyline is annoying

Rolls Grand Master

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time to invest:

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i've never once had a cooler pipe blow off in 4 years, last 2 years at 20+psi. best clamps ever, apart from those fancy wiggins ones....

Use these, everything else sucks.

Agree that blowing a cooler pipe off scares the shit out of you, sounds like you put a piston through the block and then it won't idle, worst feeling ever.

Torques Mentor

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Hi,

Yes, now that I know it is common it is -> LOL, but yesterday it was -> OMG!

I have a Nistune ECU and I was trying a new map ..

LOL good read, very common.

Get that car tuned properly with the new turbo as the stock ecu may just blow your motor.

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That's good information, had I know I would have had less stress ..

It was difficult keeping the engine alive and it would not take any load at all.

pretty common occurrence

you can unplug the afm if that happens, it will limit revs to about 2500 but it drives a bit better than with it plugged in (reverts to a default map)

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