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Is Boost Without Any Other Mods..dangerous?

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Hi

Im no expert on boost but as far as i know if u have a turbo car, any turbo car, and u want to add boost ( which is fine within limits) shouldnt there be a few other things to do first?

My mate just bought a stock Ford XR6 Turbo... :( not my choice but all good) So the first mod he has done today is add boost......

Shouldnt he add an upgraded intercooler first ? as the turbo will now run harder with boost, he should replace the factory fitted cooler to a larger after market one? and shouldnt he add an upgraded exhaust to cope with extra backpressure, and mebbie even wastegate?

Im not sure how much boost he will run, but i can see a disaster heading his way without other mods to cope. I argued he should do the other mods FIRST to which he says nah all good, so i advised him to run under 10PSI if he isnt doing any other mods.

Any advice is appeciated, thanx u.

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Xr6 boost is controlled by the ecu. Im curious to see what happens.

Best to just get a tune.

Hmmms well im curious to see what happens too lolz i can just sense something melting or blowing up..... My mate has Zero knowledge about cars other than to change gears etc.... He wouldnt even know how to operate boost or what PSI is..... he said one of his mates is installing the boost .. some guy who just runs rats on the road...

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My mate is into his xr6 turbo first thing first is get intercooler piping done. The stock plasticpiping is designed to burst at anything over stock then tell him to get a flash tune. Stock intercooler is fine for up to 400rwkw

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a better cooler and exhaust would have given him more power on the stock boost than turning the boost up a few psi with nothing else done to the car.

Hi dude, yer that sounds like a plan. But he is just running after market boost now, and im guessing its going to be 10 ( knowing his mate) or over 10psi..., without any other mod... and no tune, nothing else.

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It will have a fit and the car with do stupid shit. The xr6t is unable to have things like this done because the ECU protects everything.

In other words, only way to raise boost is with an edit.

Looks like he's going to learn the hard way. Tell him to put a big vent to atmosphere bov on there too.

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Do not boost using a boost controller will cause problems like leaning out which can cause his motor to blow

heya , yer thats kinda what i figured, i already told him to expect this, but i also wasnt 100% sure, but its gotta be logical, for every extra bit of output you add, there has to be an upgrade to cope. Ill find out tomoz how it all went, i know they did the work this afternoon.... I wonder how then they got around the ECU....

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It will have a fit and the car with do stupid shit. The xr6t is unable to have things like this done because the ECU protects everything.

In other words, only way to raise boost is with an edit.

Looks like he's going to learn the hard way. Tell him to put a big vent to atmosphere bov on there too.

I told him to add that but he was like " nah i dont need that" lolzzz i was like Grrrrr! But im not an expert so i figured id ask more knowledgeable ppls here :)

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You can't get around ecu tried it on mates xr6 tell him best bet is go see a tuner that deals with xr6t's my mate got a stage 1 kit done for 2k including tuning which was bigger injectors metal piping and flash tune gained him 80rwkw

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My mate is into his xr6 turbo first thing first is get intercooler piping done. The stock plasticpiping is designed to burst at anything over stock then tell him to get a flash tune. Stock intercooler is fine for up to 400rwkw

Thanx dude, shall be passing all these comments onto him. I told him to at least join some forums first and as some questions and read. but nope I cant tell him .

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anyone know where i can buy more boost so i can install some on my car? cant seam to find it on just jap....

Yawns.... more for his benefit than mine... but i did make a post re Turbo Timers not been safe for car theft... u can comment on that :)

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/376892-trubo-timers-not-safe-for-theft-of-car/

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