RedTurbo's not red and not Turbo'd (yet) build
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Couldn't feel the leak but when I disassembled it was caused by uneven ceramic coating. All 4cyl were showing signs of leaking. Mostly small leaks. Leveled it out, the cleaned The gasket up, added a small amount of high temp sealer to the manifold side just as a precaution. Resealed everything and it is setting up overnight. On a side note I'm really happy with the placement of the intercooler looks like an aftermarket radiator. If I can get it tuned a bit tomorrow I am taking it to cars and coffee Saturday am.
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Swapping coils doesn't do anything to help, I have 8 total coils. None in any configuration helped the problem. Any other ideas?
It feels like this car is fighting me the all the way to the finish.
It feels like this car is fighting me the all the way to the finish.
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They do the powdercoating for the Tige wakeboarding boats. Pretty big company that just got into coating. They're use to headers that use collapsible manifold gaskets. When it was dropped off he seemed worried about a turbo since he never one (so my buddy told me), I should have told them to tape it off so that's my mistake.
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Sounds good, I'm probably going to cedar point Friday with the family. Saturday I'm off at 1 so anytime after that works.
I'm getting really frustrated with it, we can't tell off its a slight popping leak on the exhaust manifold gasket or a miss.
I'm getting really frustrated with it, we can't tell off its a slight popping leak on the exhaust manifold gasket or a miss.