Subject	Probably a myth.
Posted by	Hipendicular on June 30, 2013 at 11:10 PM
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In Reply To	Myth or not. Downpipes and turbo seal failure posted by elcid on June 30, 2013 at 09:18 PM
Message	I bought my car 5 years ago with 75K on the clock. Car was stock and was blowing a bit of smoke when boosting. I did exhaust and TPs and the smoke got a bit worse. Turned out to be clogged PCVs. Smoke has been gone since. Fast forward to last year, I did 3" SZ DPs and 3" TPs and man did that make a huge difference to how well my stock turbo's spooled. I had 95K when I did the DPs and now have 98K. Still smoke free. So if your turbos are healthy, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It may be true but I've done almost 25K and am still going. Ken 91TT
Follow Ups	Myth or not. Downpipes and turbo seal failure - elcid 21:18:41 06/30/13 Probably a myth. - Hipendicular 23:10:08 06/30/13 What was your exhaust setup prior to going with 3" DP/TPs? - Haasz32 11:11:15 07/01/13 Sorry. First set of TPs were 2.5" and stock DPs. (N/m). (n/m) - Hipendicular 13:53:48 07/01/13 If exhaust back pressure were needed to counteract - JMartz 07:30:18 07/01/13 Thanks for the input guys (n/m) - elcid 08:11:56 07/01/13 I think it has more to do with the cats hiding the smoke. - xpwarrior 09:11:26 07/01/13 When I had gt525s I threw on some testpipes and smoked - z-u-later 09:51:51 07/01/13 Re: I think it has more to do with the cats hiding the smoke. - elcid 10:36:53 07/01/13 myth, they REVEAL bad seals, not cause them (n/m) - LJZTT 12:34:41 07/01/13 2nd. (n/m) - Ash's Z 13:10:00 07/01/13 /thread (n/m) - SeedyROM 17:00:42 07/01/13 Kind of like sythetic oil unsludging old oil leaks, rather - black300zx 21:37:57 07/01/13 Turbo "seals" don't really exist - Broke_as_**** 21:35:24 07/01/13 Yes they do. - 90GoldZ 22:11:46 07/01/13 so, i guess we all agree - elcid 22:29:46 07/01/13 Depends on definitions, so let's clarify - Broke_as_**** 22:57:25 07/01/13
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