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I've got an apexi timer, i found that its just handy if you don't like sitting in your car waiting for it to circulate the oil. Does anyone know which wire in the r32 gtst is for the air/fuel ratio? I don't have this feature hooked up yet coz the guy who installed it didn't know where it is.

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Personally I reckon a turbo timer = a waste of time and money. What about the rest of your car? Have you got a brake timer? Or a gearbox timer? How about a diff timer?

Chances are if the turbo needs cooling down, then the rest of the car does as well. How much cooling actually goes on with no air going through the engine bay, sitting there idling away? I just do an extra lap of the block and cool the whole thing down. Plus turbo timers a great place for the car thieves to hook into your ignition circuit.

My 20 cents worth :(

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True, but the exhaust manifold/turbo suffers alot more heat than brakes and differential. If brakes and diff's needed such devices to cool down then every performance car would have them, including N/A vehicles.

However For the record I personally do tend to take the last couple of kilometres easy to cool these other componants down after more 'spirited' driving.

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i have one and never use it.

i was under the impression that std turbos dont need one to cool down cause thats what the water lines are for. so if you have an a/m turbo with no water lines then you may need it. but you could just drive in vaccuum, not boost, for the last few minutes before you get home.

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True, but the exhaust manifold/turbo suffers alot more heat than brakes and differential. If brakes and diff's needed such devices to cool down then every performance car would have them, including N/A vehicles.

However For the record I personally do tend to take the last couple of kilometres easy to cool these other componants down after more 'spirited' driving.

As do most owners of performance cars. That's the problem with turbo timers, people think that it saves them from cooling everything down, after all if the turbo's OK....... :Pimp:

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Just look up the wiring diagram that came with it. Its dead simple. I think it may also be on the Apexi site.

I've got an apexi timer, i found that its just handy if you don't like sitting in your car waiting for it to circulate the oil.  Does anyone know which wire in the r32 gtst is for the air/fuel ratio?  I don't have this feature hooked up yet coz the guy who installed it didn't know where it is.
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