Interesting tittle huh?
Well, I don't know if it was the car not wanting to leave Wenatchee or Wenatchee not wanting me to leave but I got to the side of Hanford (Nuclear refinement place in middle of WA) about 96 miles from my house, and I am pretty sure a rod snapped... I was boosting around 3-4psi going from 60-70 and boom... she was spilling her gutz.... So since we have AAA we got the free tow back because I was within the 100miles limit LOL!!! :D We pulled up at my house and the guy was like "wow 99 miles...."
So, what I think happened is: the bigger turbo spools a little slower so I bumped the fuel curve back thinking more of 1-3 gear and not wanting to blow a bunch of black smoke... but in 5th gear the spool thing wasn't a problem, so I think I just went boom once, and she was done.
This was last Friday and I needed to be in Utah for school Monday morning... so I searched Craigslist and right after I checked 2 or 3 things a subby popped up that looked way good, called the guy up, explained my situation, and Saturday after I handed him $7k cash for his 02 wrb WRX wagon. Had 116k and some sweet BBS rims, and THAT IS IT!! No mods, no one has played with it... just really good condition.
So "Hello WRX, Good-bye MX-3" until I can find an engine for Neuman to swap in...
Well, I don't know if it was the car not wanting to leave Wenatchee or Wenatchee not wanting me to leave but I got to the side of Hanford (Nuclear refinement place in middle of WA) about 96 miles from my house, and I am pretty sure a rod snapped... I was boosting around 3-4psi going from 60-70 and boom... she was spilling her gutz.... So since we have AAA we got the free tow back because I was within the 100miles limit LOL!!! :D We pulled up at my house and the guy was like "wow 99 miles...."
So, what I think happened is: the bigger turbo spools a little slower so I bumped the fuel curve back thinking more of 1-3 gear and not wanting to blow a bunch of black smoke... but in 5th gear the spool thing wasn't a problem, so I think I just went boom once, and she was done.
This was last Friday and I needed to be in Utah for school Monday morning... so I searched Craigslist and right after I checked 2 or 3 things a subby popped up that looked way good, called the guy up, explained my situation, and Saturday after I handed him $7k cash for his 02 wrb WRX wagon. Had 116k and some sweet BBS rims, and THAT IS IT!! No mods, no one has played with it... just really good condition.
So "Hello WRX, Good-bye MX-3" until I can find an engine for Neuman to swap in...
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