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Old Mar 25, 2012 | 09:42 PM
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somehow lost the clamp holding the two pieces of the turbo together on the road. hopefully can get one tomorrow from the stealership.
Old Mar 25, 2012 | 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by toms96mx5
lol thanks, i realized i had 2 different threads open after i posted it, any way i meant to put in the ramble thread
i will move it over there.
Old Mar 25, 2012 | 10:29 PM
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I was looking at your build thread because I want to try and get my car either Turbo or super charged with in the next yr and a half so, just getting ideas from it.
Old Mar 25, 2012 | 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by toms96mx5
I was looking at your build thread because I want to try and get my car either Turbo or super charged with in the next yr and a half so, just getting ideas from it.
thank you sir, most of my stuff has been fixing somebody elses work though.
Old Mar 31, 2012 | 10:18 AM
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Dad got me the headlight conversion the the h4 bulbs, i might be able to see at night now.
Old Mar 31, 2012 | 06:17 PM
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after much thought and talking with people i have decided to put ac back in and make it a fun street car, that i autocross. need something with gas mileage. may try to pick up a wrecked car for dedicated race car that gets towed everywhere.
Old Apr 2, 2012 | 02:45 PM
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i realized the other day Adam asked for running video along time ago. whoops
I will grab some here in a bit, and i think im going to try the virtual dyno program MT has been playing with lately
Old Apr 2, 2012 | 08:53 PM
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it was a bit cool out so i hit overboost protection at 5400rpm, so i will try again tomorrow. any guess what it will peak at?
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just shy of 200
Old Apr 3, 2012 | 08:42 AM
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just shy of 200
Man I was hoping to be just north of that



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