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Old 07-15-2008, 10:50 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by WE3RX7 View Post
I've been on vacation so sorry for the delay in this post.

Yep - I had an '04 Turbo 8. It was the first greddy kit produced and came with the shitty e-manage. The car NEVER drove right with the "bolt-on" kit from Greddy. Once the interceptor-x became available, the e-manage was quickly ditched for it. I had used microtech before on other 7s, so the interceptor-x was a much more comfortable area to play in.

I ran the car up 8.5psi to 7K RPM at which time the stock GReddy wastegate configuration flipped out and would fluctuate from 3psi to 7psi every 500rpm or so.

The car never made over 300whp, but did drive very smooth, full boost at 2200rpm and was very "useable".

I'll answer any technical detail you might want - but the short and sweet is my current 8 will stay NA. Turbo Renesis' just arent worth it.
Would you say your problems were with adding a turbo to the renesis or would you say the problems were more the greddy turbo kit (wastegates and all) and ecu problems. I guess what I'm getting at was it the turbo and engine as a whole that left a sour taste in your mouth or possibly just the components that left a sour taste?
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