[quote=mike92104][quote=flu]The turbo if it is an issue would be surprising considering I only run synthetic for the past 16years and the car has a turbo timer that leaves the engine running for two minutes after turning off the ignition so that the oil can cool without cooking the turbo. I was running a boosted chip though. The KO3 aren’t exactly known to last that long under a lot of boost. Car has about 110k miles.
And Brian, most cars these.days are moving towards turbo to meet cafe emission rules. So forcing people to drive newer cars is forcing people to go more from an n/a engine to those that are turned and as you say less reliable.[/quote]
What model of turbo timer are you using? I’ve been thinking about adding one to my car. I’m too impatient to wait for it to cool down.[/quote]
Old one made by Greddy…I think they went out of business. You probably don’t need it. I don’t know a single BMW with a turbo that has one . And even after 16years of ownership of religiously cooling down the turbo for 2 minutes before shutting the motor, my turbo looks like it did fail.
Ah well. I got bigger problems now. I think really effed up my miata at an autocross today. I think I was down to 3 cylinders with the supercharger. And then the harmonic balancer wobbled and my supercharger belt broke. It was a fun course. And I should have stopped once the car started to misbehave. But I figure the motor was going to die soon anyway.
