[s-cars] Fried my turbo

[Mark Strangways]

Pauly speculated...
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From: <pkrasusky at ups.com>
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Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fried my turbo


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> Mark fried:
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> <<<Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 22:53:32 -0400
> From: Marc Gorelick <marc at frogville.net>
> Subject: [s-cars] Fried my turbo
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> I was on the throttle pretty hard trying to pass someone in a merge lane
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> when I felt the car lurch and suddenly I had no boost. Quickly I thought
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> through my list of common UrS failures and hoped that the problem was
> simply the hose popping off the connector on the ECU, a simple and free
> fix to the problem...................
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> Patient is a '93 with ~169k miles,  MTM+1 and 1.9 bar WG spring.
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> Anyone have a spare stock 'charger sitting around after an RS2 upgrade?
> If so...let me know before I have to buy new. I am, for the moment, too
> poor  for the slippery slope so no RS2 upgrades for me yet. :-(
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> Marc in Detroit with the unpimped //S4>>>
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> D'oh.  Sorry to hear that Marc.
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> I keep silently wundrin when that day (and under exactly that
> circumstance) just might sneak up on me and bite me in the arse - 159k
> now on my commuter '95.  Hope not soon, but, I'd be in same boat as you
> with these things at this point.  Slap on a lightly used spare K24 and
> call it a day.
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> You better not be List-Contagious, as things are know to be.  No tanks.
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> Good luck, and, sorry, I don't have or know of any K24s around - and if
> I did I'd likely selfishly hoard me source 8-).
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> -Paul again no tanks K.
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Don't worry Paul, when the time DOES come, I may just have a slightly broken 
in K24 sitting on the rack waiting for ya.

Or... you may just RS2 it... or retire it.

Mark (speculating in Toronto) S