Last weekend me and a friend installed my new clutch and flywheel and it was a PITA because of having to take off almost my whole turbo kit. well when i dropped it off to get it checked out to get it tuned and the tuner was street tuning my turbo coolant line i guess wasnt tight enough on and got fluid everywhere smoke was coming from the hood and behind the car since it got all over the turbo, manifold and downpipe it saturated my heat wrap and keeps smoking they though it was gonna get on fire so they used the fire extinguisher on it so its one big mess. i got it towed back to base hobby shop and they want me to take everything off so i can tighten it up again this car keeps givin me grief one problem after another and im about done with it im debating on sellin the car as a whole after i get things fixed or parting out. what do you guys think? i know havein a FI car is more maintence but its been more of a pain to keep it out of the shop than i had chance to drive it

 

sorry to hear the story man, gl

 

just stick with it bro. You started the project so see it through you will be much happier once everything works out and you can feel some good power.

 

coolant catches fire?


Its water...

 

thats exactaly what i said but they shot the fire extinguisher on it anyways since they saw the smokin they thought i would lite. i wasnt there personally so i just gotta go with what they say. ima try to check it out tomorrow ill take pics

 

You've gone this far you should stick with it. Too much fun to give up on.
Once you get it up and running and you havent taken any short cuts and have done the job right the first time around you shouldnt have any problems.
What turbo setup do you have anyway?

Marcus

 

the more i have learnt... always be with your car, especially if its getting tuned... not sure if you installed all this yourself, but try getting torque settings for these bolts and wires, just so you know for sure it wasnt installation error that caused them to come off.

 

stick with it! never regret turboing my car even though i went through 3 turbos, two hg, and a motor. i still love it

 

yea this is tru.

im using the P-fab turbo set up it is a good setup but you gotta do a lot of heat precautions