[s-cars] Bosch bypass blowup

[JShadzi at aol.com]

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Granted, there have been a few issues in the past, Forge recently offers a
new aluminum piston to replace the delrin piece in the original design, they
updated mine for free, though I haven't swapped it out yet, the original
seems to be working fine.  On the whole, however, the aftermarket valves are
many times more reliable than the Bosch valves, which are immenently doomed
to fail in a relatively short amount of time.

I see some cars where 5-$10k has been put into the motor, but the owner wants
to save $70 bucks and use a plastic bypass valve, kinda makes me chuckle  =)

Javad

In a message dated 8/23/2002 6:01:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
MatthewR at greenhosp.org writes:

> Javad, Steve, et al-
>
> Although I agree with you all, I have also heard of failures with the Forge
> and Bailey units, too.
> My 92 is MTM 1+ currently.  I'm running the Audi TT BPV, which was only 30
> bucks and hasn't failed yet.  (My VW parts guy looked at me kinda funny
> when
> I bought it, but that's the least of my problems.)
>
> Check the archives, there was a lot of discussion about this a few months
> ago.
>
> -Matt, CT
> 92 s4