When is it too late to boost?
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When is it too late to boost? My car's about to roll past 40,000 miles and i was just wondering if eveyone thinks it would still be safe to boost. I'm pretty sure it is, but i dunno if after 40k that the engine would weaken a little. Basically i'm asking do you think it would still hold under 6lbs of boost for daily driving? By the time i boost i'll probably have 42-43k on it.
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Rep Power: 0 I have 40k on my car and have been racing it off and on for almost a year boosted. It still feels great and I know everything is in working order b/c I installed and wired everything.
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Just because a car hits 75,000 miles does not mean it is automatically going to start having oil blowby problems. I have worked on many cars that will leakdown 99-100% with over 75,000 miles. There is no reason no to turbo over 40k, unless the engine was not well maintained.
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Originally Posted by 4drcivic2k1
Just because a car hits 75,000 miles does not mean it is automatically going to start having oil blowby problems. I have worked on many cars that will leakdown 99-100% with over 75,000 miles.
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Rep Power: 0 Agreed. That is why I put "unless the engine was not well maintained." Even if it isn't well maintained a honda shouldn't be burning any noticible oil at 75k unless you are running the engine to redline every day, especially with the useful life of a stock honda motor is 200k+ miles. If you're burning oil at 75k you must have seriously done something wrong.
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I put a turbo on a 1995 Civic with 150k miles 6 months ago, and it runs perfectly.
We of course did leakdown/compression tests before the turbo install to make sure everything was still good.
Moral of the story: do a leakdown/compression check, and if you get good results, who cares about mileage!
We of course did leakdown/compression tests before the turbo install to make sure everything was still good.
Moral of the story: do a leakdown/compression check, and if you get good results, who cares about mileage!
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Originally Posted by Titleist71
The bottom end may hold up fine but things like gaskets, bearings, valves, springs, retainers, things like that may not.
Gaskets and seals are also cheap. You just have to do the work yourself to replace them. Anyone who turbos their car needs to be ready and able to do that work themselves, otherwise you shouldn't be so drastically modifying a car.
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Rep Power: 0 I have 80,000 miles on my car and still running good....when I baby the car, I baby the car, but when I get on it, I get on it (for a few seconds) then I go back to babing the car 
it just needs to hold up till I get my K20A3 and boost that
it just needs to hold up till I get my K20A3 and boost that
I have 81k and im just about to finish putting together my turbo kit. im going to do a compression test and leakdown next week. Im going to boost this engine till I port and polish and sleeve the spare block that I have at home(9k).So it should hold up long enough. I say I take pretty good care of my car.
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