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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 12:18 PM
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like the title says..


tomorow I'm performing a full tune up on the car.. new plugs and wires and oil change blah blah and a basic cleanning because I've pretty much forgot about the car lately

how do you guys do it?

how much would i have to pay for you guys to do it?


or is this a site or a webpage that shows you how to do this that you could direct me towards?
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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 12:33 PM
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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 12:40 PM
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go to home depot, figure out how big the outer diameter of your turbo inlet is, get a pvc cap (somehing like this and drill a hole http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Academ...pes/EndCap.jpg) and coupler that fits on each. get a valve stem, drill a hole in the pvc cap and pull the valve stem through, put some epoxy or something around the valve stem and hook it to your turbo, listen for leaks.
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Old Sep 4, 2006 | 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by DsmInduction
go to home depot, figure out how big the outer diameter of your turbo inlet is, get a pvc cap (somehing like this and drill a hole http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Academ...pes/EndCap.jpg) and coupler that fits on each. get a valve stem, drill a hole in the pvc cap and pull the valve stem through, put some epoxy or something around the valve stem and hook it to your turbo, listen for leaks.
thats what o did for the srt4 and it worked great you can use the pressure regulator on the compressor to set how much boost you car is actually running...that way you know exactly what your car is doing under boost
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