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it's a big load of crap, that's what it is..

funniest thing ever was reading that in a post for a skyline advertised on another forum, and yet he was on here bragging how his skyline had 190rwkw just a few weeks before.. When I asked him how he had 190rwkw when they are about 110rwkw from factory without raising the boost or having modified it he wasn't too happy :D

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yes, well take statements like that with a grain of salt. you need to look at the car yourself to figure out if the engine/turbo's in good shape or not.

generally, if the car is stock standard (stock airbox/exahust) it's 90% likely it hasn't had the boost increased (though they could have removed mods), but that doesn't mean the owner hasn't driven the car hard. Mods such as front mount cooler, aftermarket turbo, bleed valve(duh), large number of performance mods are indications that the boost has been increased at some point.

a compression test might also reveal if it's been boosted

no1 buys a turbo and drives it like a grandma all the time, you have to expect that the car will have been abused from time to time (compared to the stocko family car)

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you can also have

"never been gated"

when people ask what that is, you just tell em... you'll know it when you have been

lol! I have typed three possible answers and in the interests of keeping some form of "cred" I havent posted them!

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it's a big load of crap, that's what it is..

funniest thing ever was reading that in a post for a skyline advertised on another forum, and yet he was on here bragging how his skyline had 190rwkw just a few weeks before.. When I asked him how he had 190rwkw when they are about 110rwkw from factory without raising the boost or having modified it he wasn't too happy  

Agreed!

Cant people just be honest? Don they realise that there are poeple out there that will catch them out, thus lessening their chances of selling the car?

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